Includes bibliographical references.

In the garden -- Of paradise -- That light one finds in baby pictures -- With both eyes closing -- The boxcars of consolidated rail freight -- The howling of the Gods -- Of the dead so much less is expected -- Academic discourse at Miami: Wallace Stevens and the domestication of light -- Meditation on ruin -- Out of these wounds, the moon will rise -- In the time of dreary miracles -- Approaching the tower -- The frustrated angel -- Nothing to do now but sit and wait -- Little mirrors of despair -- Meditation on a blue vase -- Like the stare of some glass-eyed God -- Memoir -- Of hunger and human freedom -- The conjugal bed -- Meditation on Beethoven: symphony 9 -- And the sunflower weeps for the sun, its flower -- Self-portrait with whiskey and pistol -- Meditation malheureuse -- Because the past is never in the past and because it is my birthday -- The wildflower field -- Of passion and seductive trees -- Green squall -- Joy on the edge of vertigo -- Firecracker catalogue -- Aubade -- The wildflower field -- A book of common days -- Feast of the Ascension, 2004. Planting hibiscus.