Life Watch : Poems

Train to Paris Train to Paris 13 (1) Gas lamp, 1893 14 (1) In our life watch 15 (2) Room of the orphans 17 (2) Fixing the life watch 19(1) Again at the Denver airport, recalling Federico and my folks in 1929 in New York 20 (3) Back in 1901 23(2) Father 25(2) A child's Christmas in Manhattan 27 (1) Our New York skyline in the 1930s, now on fire in September 28 (1) Dashing north 29(1) Mother 30 (2) Brother 32 (1) Sister 33(1) With Zo in the botanical wood 34 (1) The lost son (Luke 15.11-32) 35 (1) Gold watch 36(5) Morning Ikon 41(1) The postman in love 42 (1) Companions of light 43(1) Zo near a Sífnos monastery 44 (1) Vagrant 45(1) Drifting 46 (2) Cloudy Sunday 48 (1) Wartime café 49(1) With the blindman 50(3) On The First Day In the beginning 53 (1) Adam the surveyor 54 (2) Aeneas 56(1) After the crucifixions of 4 BCE 57 (1) Virgil 58(1) Seder in one of the odd rooms 59 (1) Yeshua ben Yosef at the stake 60 (1) Ophelia sings out 61 (1) Spinoza in the Dutch Ghetto 62 (1) Baudelaire suffering winter 63 (1) Machado at his window 64(1) Daybreak with Jean-Louis Kérouac 65 (2) Leopold and his lepers 67 (1) Of Julio who almost kills me 68(3) Twilight When I die bury me with raw onions 71 (1) Lapland 72(1) Ocean speech 73 (1) Castillo negro 74 (2) Black castle 76(2) Blue Tibet is very high 78 (1) Waiting for the barbarians 79(2) Hanging from spikes, dropping to earth 81 (1) If God had an apartment 82 (1) The eleven commandments 83 (2) Dancing with electrons 85 (1) Secrets of the lonely 86 (2) Talking to an orange 88 (1) Russian and Spanish jail friends 89 (1) Feeling his midnight arm 90(3) Past Midnight Evenings in Buenos Aires 93 (1) Snow in the Dakotas 94 (1) Her hands 95(1) Full moon over a two-note man 96(1) Night of an exquisite morning 97(1) A Czech wakes as a cockroach 98(1) Open the window and let the night come in with its perfect memory of streets 99 (1) Beautiful movements 100 (1) Rooftop 101(1) My family in brightness 102 (1) Coffins of black 103(1) Thou among the wastes 104 (1) First word 105(4) Dawn Café Night watch 109(1) On the Silk Road 110 (2) Cafe de l'aube 112(1) Dawn café 113(1) Vincent on the toilet wall 114(1) In the broom closet 115(1) Memory house on Plato Street 116(1) The shtetl ghost 117(2) Blind date 119(1) When I die bury me with light ticking 120(3) Train to Paris Giving a watch life 123(1) A fool of sighs 124(1) Loneliness 125(2) PS I love you l l26 Secret face of love 127 (1) Wings of the morning 128 (1) Feeling young 129 (2) Sailor of the stars 131 (2) At my funeral 133(1) When I die bury me in fire or earth 134 (1) Memory is my ship 135 (1) Train to Paris 136(2) Notes & Acknowledgments 138 (3) About the Author 141 (3) Colophon 144