Spectacles

Spectacles

xi
Preface

The Balancing of Grinding Wheels, 1

2
You Don’t Say
2
Soliloquy
3
See
3
What have you become
4
Duress

Synopsis of the Signal Systems, 5

6
Two for Country Music
7
XI
7
In the coffee shop

Ezra’s Book, 9

10
Overcome
10
New Spring
11
A Warning
12
Lover

Important Beater Instructions, 13

14
Urban Indian
14
From the Symphonic Cycle
16
Something to Fear
17
A Human Space
18
Monochrome
19
I N S T A M A T I C
19
In a Tea Shop
20
Even Though

Hans Hans, 21

Hans Falls in Love, 22

22
“Hey, you pay your quarter.”
22
Maybe she isn’t there
22
Hans was hungry, feeding the ducks
22
The hippopatamus looks all right
23
A man in two coats nudged Hans
23
Hans fell over a curb
23
“Do you have a match?”
23
Bang. It was inescapable
23
If Hans weren’t talking to himself
23
“You have to take the leap.”
23
The zoo-key voice was telling Hans
23
Hans had that surety that location provides
24
It’s not the same in a zoo
24
What do you find in a zoo?
24
Maybe the swan is in love
24
Love gives it all away
24
Hans had made it to the closing of the kiddie zoo park

Real Life Thoughts, 25

25
Hans didn’t know what to do
25
Hans was afraid of physical damage to his eyes
26
Hans didn’t know
26
Little things delighted Hans
26
Hans was amused
26
Hans felt capable of anything
27
Hans knew a responsible citizen
27
They show movies on the bus, too
27
Hans wasn’t really going to the museum
28
I know not “supposed to be”
28
Hans thought he heard the phone ring
28
Lines at banks bore one
29
Hans discovered that the light rain
29
“How now blown Jack! How now, quilt!”
29
Hans didn’t know what to do with praise
29
Hans had burnt the toast
29
How can I complain
29
Pool is more a test of character
30
Hans knew that if he wanted he could act like everyone else
30
Hans couldn’t understand
30
Hans realized he was talking to himself
30
Listening to the radio
30
Hans had thought one always colludes
30
Hans had finally
31
Hans collected ducks
31
It was just a movie
31
Hans walked through the city
31
Hans admired the flexibility
31
Cool Hand Luke
32
Hans was in love with Patch,
32
Sometimes, Hans stopped thinking

Personae, 33

Spring & All, 34

35
The Form of a Bird
36
To Have
37
The Fly
38
Spectacles
39
In the Stifling Heat
40
The Bicycle

Memory Gardens, 41

42
Other
42
Work Ethic
42
Too Late
43
Room
43
Echo
44
As Is
44
Master
44
Vision
45
Do
45
For
45
Double Fracture
46
Edge
46
Memories
46
Echo

A Red Wheelbarrow, 47

48
The Red Bicycle
48
Artiface
48
Artiface 2
49
Artiface 3
49
Artiface 4
49
Artiface 5
49
Artiface 6
50
Artiface 7
50
Artiface 8

Room 3, 51

52
Apartment Garden
52
residential district
52
a neighbor cat
53
on the other side of thinking
53
over cars and stores
53
I think my own thoughts
54
on the street no sign saying walk here
55
two men at the door
55
second wind
56
a morning before and after
56
A moment
56
a point of view

One Hundred and One Famous Poems, 57

58
Aunt Hazel
60
In Sunlight
61
Automobile
62
Red-winged Blackbirds
63
West Wind
65
The Rainstorm
66
To a Mockingbird
67
Graves
68
Dirt
68
As Far as I Go
69
The Rails of Alameda
70
Recessional
71
Requiem
71
Junipero Serra
72
Ishi
73
The Match
74
Thanatopsis
75
Flags
76
Life Sculpture
77
For Honest Poverty
78
Ode to Goddess Selket
79
Tom Howard
80
Buying Deer
81
To a Duck