Remembering Curzio Malaparte --
A conversation with Leonardo --
Metamorphosis: The pink knight --
East sixty-seventh street --
An apology for not invoking the muse --
History is what a man does --
Memoir of a three inch man --
A thanks to a botanist --
On the orthodoxy and creed of my power mower --
To a lovely lady gone to theory --
4:00 a.m. The bottle is a clepsydra --
A Buddha seen as the thing least like me --
Driving across the American desert --
A confession: That I meant to sing and did not --
Dialogue with outer space --
A prayer to the mountain --
Poem for Benn's graduation from high school --
An Emeritus addresses the school --
Memo: Preliminary draft of prayer to God the Father.