Wife of Light

Mother --New house --Ode to an Appaloosa stallion --Song of [symbol of pi] --Critical mass --Your future mistress --Curtains of goldenrod --Helen-Whitney's flat --Where Paul was born --Genethlion --Lakebed --Quixote --Nightletter in semaphore --Life sentence --Menstruation rag --Mystic communion of clocks --Madame Bovary to her lover --St. Augustine contemplating the bust of Einstein --George Sand, addressing her mind, at 50 --Anne Donne to her husband --Sweep me through your many-chambered heart --Tradescantia Fluminensis --A.R. Ammons amid the fungi --Ithaca, without you --Driving through farm country at sunset --Nox --Digging holes --Period piece --I should have trekked with Scott to Antarctica. (Cont.) Trelawny Parish, Jamaica --Mooning --The bathroom curtain has a way of drooping --Entreaty --The elements --Atlantic moonfish --Of course the Earth won't stop --Addendum --Ode to the alien.