Dumb luck: poems

In Memoriam, Morris Graves

Chuang Tzu and the First Noble Truth

Essay on Rhyme

Another Fool

Weasel, Crow, and Coyote on the Dharma Trail

The Anger of Su Tung-p'o

The New York Poem

Poem in the Margins of the Shoyo Roku

Awakening

First Snow

Zuihitsu

Fifteen Stitches

Sisyphus

Lives of a Poet: Saigyo's Solitude

All Here

R.I.P.

Tommy Played the Blues

"One Who Studies the Past in Order to Learn the Present Is Fit to Teach."

Winter Solstice, 1998

"Praise a Fool and Make Him Useful"

Below Clay Hill

Unsolicited

Sonnet on the Thirty-second Anniversary of My Internship as an Editor

On Being Asked About Retirement

Rising

To Bill and Kris

Seattle Spring

On Being Invited to Write a Poem on the Theme of Shelter

Assay

Epithalamion for Laura and Michael

New Math

Upon Receipt of a Gift of Chopsticks

Cookin' with Jane

Great American Nude

Road Hog Sutra

Bobbitt, the Trial

Bobbitt

Seducing the Sparrow

Arachnophobia

Plain Dumb Luck

The Orchid Flower

A Woodsplitter's Meditation

Colophon.