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.