Cain named the animal

Love Poems and Others -- Arm in the Excavators Shovel -- Whom I Have Blocked Out -- To Make a Wound -- A Letter to Lucie About Lucie -- Worldful -- To My Mother's Father -- The King of the Sadnesses of Dogs -- Eurydice on the Art of Poetry -- Husbands -- For Melissa Asleep Upstairs -- Nowhere Is Local -- The Professor -- The Butterflies the Mountain and the Lake -- For Sylvia Twenty-Eight in July -- To Nicholas from My Absence -- Having Been Raised by My Kidnappers I Consider the Gift of Life, or A Gift from a Thief -- A Thousand Pictures -- Please Come Flying -- Vivian Maier Considers Heaven from a Bench in Rogers Beach Park Chicago -- Recapitulations -- The Hastily Assembled Angel on Embodiment -- Jim Limber on Silence -- Cain Named the Animal -- The Lost Tribe of Eden -- Constantly Throwing Lip -- The Lost Tribe of Eden at the Beginning of the Days of Blood -- The Robot Bird Tells Me How It Is I Am in Hell -- The Beginning of Time -- The Reformation -- In Which the Beginning of Time Happens in a Different Way -- The Dream at the End of the Dream.

Creeland

Porcupine I -- Cree Dictionary -- Louise -- Kinanaskomitin -- Dancing Yellow Thunder -- No Obvious Signs of Distress -- Porcupine II -- Ada Street, Pocatello -- Mahihkan -- Wahkohtowin -- Healing, Suspended -- Tracks -- I Was Born Blue -- Scraps from Summer Visits -- Rueful -- 150 Kilometres West of Saskatoon -- Small -- Stretch Marks // Sun Dogs -- The Cree Word for Careening -- Woman Making Tea -- Mozart, Saskatchewan -- Chris Gaines -- Nathan Apodaca -- I Only Tried to Break -- Porcupine III -- A Prairie Fire That Wanders About -- Main Street and Sixth Avenue -- A Crook That Signifies Home -- Spiralling (Fine for Now) -- I Almost Had a Mental Breakdown During My Master's Degree -- There Are No Good Settlers -- The Lighthouse -- Spillimacheen -- Comfort -- Even Tombs Die -- Wake -- Cirriculum in the Wait -- Nikanihk -- Born Under Punches (In Billings, Montana) -- Entry Four -- Narrative Trap(ping) -- Common Spaces -- Porcupine IV -- Kohkom Freedom.

Versus.

I will arise and go now -- The hunter -- Thoughts thought after a bridge party -- Any millenniums today, lady? -- A word about winter -- How do you say ha-ha in French? -- Stag night, paleolithic -- Let's not climb the Washington Monument tonight -- Who did which? or, who indeed? -- You bet travel is broadening -- Thar she blows -- What to do until the doctor goes, or, It's tomorrow than you think -- Two dogs have I -- On waking to the third rainy morning of a long week end -- Quick, Hammacher, my stomacher -- The cherub -- Who called that robin a piccolo player? -- The outcome of Mr. MacLeod's gratitude -- What I know about life -- Pastoral -- Very funny, very funny -- We would refer you to our service department, if we had one -- First limick -- Who taught caddies to count? or, A burnt golfer fears the child -- There were giants in those days, or, Maybe there weren't -- Tarkigton, thou should'st be living in this hour -- The strange case of Mr. Palliser's palate -- We'll all feel better by Wednesday -- Will you have your tedium rare or medium? The porcupine -- There's nothing like instinct. Fortunately -- Martha's Vineyard -- The people upstairs -- The strange case of the renegade lyric writer -- The spinster detective -- Trick or trek -- Tableau at twilight -- Spring comes to Baltimore, or, Christmas comes more promptly -- There are more ways to roast a pig than burning the house down, or, You can always stick your head in a volcano -- Second limick -- Line-up for yesterday, an ABC of baseball immortals -- September is summer, too, or, It's never too late to be uncomfortable -- The second month it's not itemized -- The banker's special -- The lion -- Soliloquy in circles -- Roll on, thou deep and dark blue copy writer, roll! -- Epitaph for an explorer -- The strange case of the entomologist's heart -- The sea gull and the ea-gull -- Third limick -- Possessions are nine points of conversation -- Polterguest, my polterguest -- Reprise -- Piano tuner, untune me that tune -- Pappy wants a poppy -- Not even for brunch -- The outcome of Mr. Buck's superstition -- Mrs. Purvis dreads room service, or, Mr. Purvis dreads it, too -- Oh shucks, Ma'am, I mean excuse me -- Always marry an April girl -- Listen to the linotype -- Nature abhors a vacancy -- Lines to be embroidered on a bib, or, The child is father of the man, but not for quite a while -- Fourth limick -- I do, I will, I have -- I'll gladly pull over to the curb -- Lay that pumpkin down -- The guppy -- I must tell you about my novel -- Is tomorrow really another? Or, no more of the same, please -- If anything should arise, it isn't I -- Good riddance, but now what? -- Is this seat taken? Yes, or, My neck is sticking in -- I'll take the high road commission -- Have you tried staying awake? Or, They'll find a way to stop that, too -- A posy for Edmund Clerihew Bentley -- Others in the cast include -- The asp -- How the rhinoceros got its hide, or, The confessions of Count Mowgli de Sade -- Grin and bear left -- He digs, he dug, he has dug -- The eternal vernal, or, In all my dreams my fair face beams -- Don't look now, but your noblesse oblige is showing -- The cup and the lip -- Fifth limick -- Cousin Euphemia knows best, or, Physician heal somebody else -- Consider the lapel, Sir -- Here usually comes the bride -- I am full of previous experience -- First child ... second child -- It looks like snow, or, My life in galoshes -- Confession to be traced on a birthday cake -- If he scholars, let him go -- Compliments of a friend -- Confound you, December twenty-sixth, I apologize -- The middle -- For a good dog -- The blissful dream of Mr. Farr -- The perfect husband -- I spy.

Collected poems

Poems

Paid on both sides; The letter; Taller-To-day; Missing; The secret agent; The watershed; No change of place; Let history be my judge; Never stronger; This loved one; Easy knowledge; Too dear, too vague; Between adventure; A free one; Family ghosts; The questioner who sits so sly; Venus will now say a few words; 1929; The bonfires; On Sunday walks; Shorts; Happy ending; This lunar beauty; The question; Five songs; Uncle Henry; Consider; The wanderer; The watchers; Adolescene; The exiles; The decoys; Have a good time; Half way; Ode; Legend; The witnesses; Letter to Lord Byron; A summer night; Paysage Moralise; O what is that sound; Our hunting fathers; Through the looking-glass; Two climbs; Meiosis; A misunderstanding; Who's who; Schoolchildren; May; A bride in the 30's; On this island; Night mail; As I walked out one evening; Twelve songs; His excellency; Casino; Oxford; Dover; Journey to Iceland; Detective story; Death's echo; The price; Danse Macabre; Lullaby; Orpheus; Miss Gee; James Honeyman; Victor; As he is; A voyage; The capital; Brussels in winter; Musee des Beaux Arts; Gare du Midi; The novelist; The composer; Rimbaud; A.E. Housman; Edward Lear; Epitaph on a tyrant; Sonnets from China; New Year letter; In memory of W.B. Yeats; In memory of Ernst Toller; Voltaire at Ferney; Herman Melville; The unknown citizen; They; The prophets; Like a vocation; The riddle; Heavy date; Law like love; The hidden law; Ten songs; In memory of Sigmund Freud; Another time; Our bias; Hell; Lady weeping at the crossroads; Anthem for St. Cecilia's Day; The dark years; The quest; Shorts; No time; Diaspora; Luther; Montaigne; The council; The maze; Blessed event; Kairos and Logos; At the grave of Henry James; Alone; Leap before you look; If I could tell you; Atlantis; In sickness and in health; Many happy returns; Mundus Et Infans; Few and simple; The lesson; A healthy spot; The model; Canzone; Anthem; The fall of Rome; Nursery rhyme; In Schrafft's; Under which lyre; Music is international; The duet; Pleasure island; A walk after dark; For the time being; The sea and the mirror.

The age of anxiety; In transit; In praise of limestone; Ischia; Under Sirius; Cattivo Tempo; Hunting season; Fleet visit; An island cemetery; Not in Baedeker; Ode to Gaea; Bucolics; Shorts; Five songs; Three occasional poems; Their lonely betters; First things first; The more loving one; A permanent way; Nocturne; Precious five; Memorial for The City; The shield of Achilles; Secondary Epic; Makers of history; T the Great; The managers; The Epigoni; Bathtub thoughts; The old man's road; The history of science; The history of truth; Homage to Clio; The love feast; The Chimeras; Merax & Mullin; Limbo culture; There will be no peace; A household; 'The truest poetry is the most feigning'; We too had known golden hours; Secrets; Numbers and faces; Objects; Words; The song; One circumlocution; Horae Canonicae; Good-bye to the Mezzogiorno; Dichtung und Wahreit; Dame kind; Reflections in a forest; Hands; The Sabbath; Walks; Friday's child; Academic Graffiti; Thanksgiving for a habitat; Shorts I; Two Don Quixote lyrics; A change of air; You; Et in Arcadia Ego; Hammerfest; Iceland revisited; On the circuit; Symmetries & Asymmetries; The marker; At the party; Bestiaries are out; After reading a child's guide to Modern Physics; Ascension day, 1964; Whitsunday in Kirchstetten; Three Posthumous poems; City without walls; Eleven occasional poems; The Horatians; Profile; Since; Amor Loci; Bird-language; Two songs; Forty years on; Marginalia; In due season; Rois Faineants; Partition; August 1968; Fairground; River profile; Insignificant elephants; Ode to Terminus; Six commissioned texts; Prologue at sixty; Epistle to a Godson; The Art of Healing; A New Year greeting; Smelt and tasted; Heard and seen; I am not a camera; A bad night; Moon Landing; The garrison; Pseudo-Questions; Stark bewolkt; Natural linguistics; The aliens; Doggerel by a senior citizen; Shorts II; Old people's home; Circe; Short ode to the cuckoo; Ode to the Medieval poets.

An encounter; A shock; Loneliness; Talking to dogs; Talking to mice; Talking to myself; Thank you, fog; Aubade; Unpredictable but providential; Address to the beasts; Archaeology; Progress?; A curse; Ode to the Diencephalon; Shorts; Posthumous letter to Gilbert White; A contrast; The question; No, Plato, no; Nocturne; A Thanksgiving; A lullaby.