James Arlington Wright

Your Name in Arezzo

Where the Plump Spider Sways to Rest

Venice

To My Older Brother

Sitting in a Small Screen-House on a Summer Morning

Sheep in the Rain

Sappho’s Child

The Resurrected

A Presentation of Two Birds to My Son

Nightpiece

Near Mansfield, Ohio

Morning Hymn to a Dark Girl

The Morality of Poetry

Miners

A Little Girl on Her Way to School

Listening to the Mourners

The Lights in the Hallway

The Life

A Lazy Poem on Saturday Evening

Just before a Thunder Shower

A Gesture by a Lady with an Assumed Name

For Her Who Carried My Child

A Flower Passage

The Farmer

Erinna to Sappho

Elegy in a Firelit Room

Directions out of a Dream

The Blessing

Between Wars

Aubade at the Zama Replacement Depot

The Alarm

Against Surrealism

Autumn Begins In Martins Ferry, Ohio

Saint Judas

A Blessing

Lying In A Hammock At William Duffy’s Farm In Pine Island, Minnesota

Beginning

Small Frogs Killed On The Highway

A Winter Daybreak Above Vence

Depressed By A Book Of Bad Poetry, I Walk Toward An Unused Pasture And Invite The Insects To Join Me

A Note Left In Jimmy Leonard’s Shack

A Poem About George Doty In The Death House

Fear Is What Quickens Me

Rip

In Response To A Rumor That The Oldest Whorehouse In Wheeling, West Virginia, Has Been Condemned

May Morning

Having Lost My Sons, I Confront The Wreckage Of The Moon: Christmas, 1960

On The Skeleton Of A Hound

As I Step Over A Puddle At The End Of Winter, I Think Of An Ancient Chinese Governor

Bologna: A Poem About Gold

Hook

Goodbye To The Poetry Of Calcium

Outside Fargo, North Dakota

To A Blossoming Pear Tree

Northern Pike

At The Executed Murderer’s Grave

Trying To Pray

The Journey

The Last Pieta, In Florence

The Jewel