Now and then: poems, 1976-1978

I. Nostalgic. American portrait : Old style

Amazing grace in the back country

Boy wandering in Simms' Valley

Old flame

Evening hour

Orphanage boy

Red-Tail hawk and pyre of youth

Mountain plateau

Star-fall

Youth stares at Minoan sunset

II. Speculative. Dream

Dream of a dream

First dawn light

Ah, Anima!

Unless

Not quite like a top

Waiting

The mission

Code book lost

When the tooth cracks - zing!

Sister water

Memory forgotten

Waking to tap of hammer

Love recognized

The smile

How to tell a love story

Little black heart of the telephone

Last laugh

Heat lightning

Inevitable frontier

Heart of the backlog

Identity and argument for prayer

Diver

Rather like a dream

Departure

Heat wave breaks

Heart of autumn.