Americana and other poems

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Island cities

Phoenix

Atlanta-Dallas/Fort Worth, 11:10 P.M.

On the road

Bad night in New York state

The overhead rack

Icarus

Corpus Christi

New Orleans

Corinth, MS

Reading, PA

Near Clifton, perhaps

New York City

Flight to limbo

Before the mirror

The hedge

In the cemetery high above Shillington

61 and some

Vero Beach birthday

Upon becoming a senior citizen

A wound posthumously inflicted

On the nearly simultaneous deaths of Harold Brodkey and Joseph Brodsky

One tough keratosis

Ocular hypertension

To two of my characters

Reality

Downtime

To a skylark

Marine Hotel, North Berwick, Scotland, May 1998

Prague, again

The witnesses

Piet

Beauvais

Two cunts in Paris

Death in Venice

Orvieto

Jacopo Pontormo

Venetian candy

Hiroshima, 2000

At the Miho Museum

Shinto

A Brazilian valentine

Pura vida

Subtropical night

Boca Grande sunset

Song of myself

December sun

A rescue

Replacing sash cords

Radiators

Slum lords

Money

Bridge

Transparent stratagems

Montes Veneris

Rainbow

Chicory

Jesus and Elvis

Religious consolation

Saying goodbye to very young children

A sound heard early on the morning of Christ's nativity.