Cloud of Witnesses: An Introduction * 19from SKATING WITH HEATHER GRACEMichael's Reply to the White Man * 33A Death * 35Venice * 36The Blood We Paid For * 37A Family of Fishermen * 39Tatyana * 40Like My Father Waking Early * 41Marriage * 43Lessons from Berkeley * 44O Canada * 45The Widow * 46A Dream of Death in the First Person * 47Skating with Heather Grace * 48Learning Gravity * 50A Clearing in the Woods * 57A Note on the Rapture to His True Love * 58Pornography * 59The Liturgist * 60I Felt Myself Turning * 61A Good Death Even When It Kills You * 62To Her Sisters on the Nature of the Universe * 63Where It Came From * 64Noon on Saturday * 65Wormwood * 67Pruning * 68The Grandmothers * 69For the Ex-Wife on the Occasion of Her Birthday * 70from GRIMALKIN & OTHER POEMSAttende Domine * 75Aisling * 76At the Opening of Oak Grove Cemetery Bridge * 78Green Bananas * 81Adoro Te Devote * 82Grimalkin * 83Casablanca * 85In Paradisum * 86Inviolata * 87Liberty * 88No Prisoners * 89O Gloriosa Virginum * 92Rhododendrons * 93That Scream If You Ever Hear It * 94The Nines * 96The Lives of Women * 97Tommy * 98West Highland * 99from STILL LIFE IN MILFORDArt History, Chicago * 103Kisses * 105Bishop's Island * 106Rentals Ledger * 107An Evening Walk to the Sea by Friesians * 108Heavenward * 110Couplets * 111The Moveen Notebook * 112The Old Operating Theatre, London, All Souls, Night * 124She Instructs the Brethren on the Laws of Love * 125Still Life in Milford--Oil on Canvas by Lester Johnson * 126from WALKING PAPERSEuclid * 131Montbretia * 133Fr. Andrews * 135To Be Among These Elegant Voices * 136Corpses Do Not Fret Their Coffin Boards * 139Oh Say Grim Death * 140The Life of Fiction * 142After Your Going * 143Thirteen for Sean at Thirty * 144Dear Mr. President * 145Local Heroes * 147Dear Mr. Vice President * 149Himself * 152Dear Madam Secretary * 153On a Bar of Chinese Soap * 155Dear Messrs. Attorneys General * 156Walking Papers * 158Calling * 162Refusing at Fifty-Two to Write Sonnets * 165from THE SIN-EATER: A BREVIARYThe Sin-Eater * 168Argyle in Agony * 169Argyle's Vapors * 170Argyle's Balance * 171Argyle's Ejaculations * 172Argyle's Retreat * 173Argyle's Dream of the Church Dove * 174Argyle in Carrigaholt * 175Argyle's Return to the Holy Island * 176Argyle's Stone * 177Argyle at Loop Head * 178Argyle's Eucharist * 179A Corporal Work of Mercy * 180Argyle Considers the Elements * 181Argyle Among the Moveen Lads * 182His Ambulations * 183His Repasts * 184He Considers Not the Lilies but Their Excellencies * 185He Weeps Among the Clare Antiquities * 186Argyle at the Ennis Friary * 187He Posits Certain Mysteries * 188His Purgations * 189Argyle on Knocknagaroon * 190Recompense His Paraclete * 191CLOUD OF WITNESSES: NEW POEMSA Laving Song * 194Libra * 195Accordion * 196You Who Never Came In * 198Nativity * 199Yossef * 200Some Octaves on Holy Orders * 201When She Knew * 204Recompense * 205How Howard Armstrong Learned the Verities * 206The Desert Years * 207At Moyarta * 208Twelve Days of Christmas * 209What Shall We Say? * 210Receipt * 213St. Kevin and the Temptress * 214Personal * 215Her Mother's Irises * 216San Cassiano * 217Par Rum Pum Pum Pum * 218Waterfowl at Summer's End * 220Moveen Solstice * 221Flotilla * 222Genesis 3 * 223Franchise 2016 * 224Corrine Among the Fronds of Basil * 226Gratis * 227Double Sonnet for the Florist's Son * 228Interment * 229Old Dogs * 230Theodicy: A Lament * 231The Prince Conti * 233Another Miracle * 234In the Gents Loo of the Stella Maris * 235To His Grandchildren as Dark Draws Hither * 236Priestess * 238Digitas Paternae Dextrae * 239Morning Among Piebalds * 240Buskers * 241Meadowhawk * 242The Sick of the Palsy Healed and His Sins Forgiven * 243Benediction * 244Little Elegy * 245.