Table of Contents

Shrike 1

I

Kick Me 5

Bacon 7

Potential 9

Four Riddles 10

Duck and Cover 12

Drama Major 13

The Gideons Visit Local Junior High 14

Brief Aubade 15

Invisible Fish 16

II

For the Christian Angler 21

River Prayer 22

"Trout that swim" 23

The Rio Hondo 24

The Little Rio Grande 26

The Rio Grande 27

Pot Creek 28

Cause 29

Nathaniel Hawthorne at Niagara Falls 30

Sonnet on Time 31

III

The Death of Adam 35

Echo 36

Elegy for a Suicide 37

Ars Proverbium 38

Memento Mori 39

Perspective on Might 40

Roadside Memorial 41

Fall 42

Et Cetera 43

At the Hospice 44

Good God 45

IV

Pope Innocent X (Velazquez) 49

At Dante's Tomb 50

Liquid Italy 51

Ignored Woodwork in Old Churches 53

The Race of the Candles 54

A Crown for Meghan 60