Wide world -- Mint of the empire -- Signs and portents -- Dreaming of Mexico, Ambrose Bierce, and Weldon Kees -- Autobiography : the early years -- Song of vegetable love -- World's deserts -- River -- Sparrow falling -- This kingdom -- With child -- In the hangar of Brisbee, Oklahoma, 1933 -- Hippopotamus at the zoological gardens, Regent's Park, 1852 -- Coroner's report -- Poet at seven -- Mapless world -- One wind -- London, 1940 -- Pantoum : Polish farmhouse, 4 AM, 1943 -- Marianne Moore late at night -- Hallaballoo -- Comforts of middle age -- Brief monologue of the mirror -- Flowers, things vital and unvital -- A road in agrigentum -- Homesickness -- Neglected moon -- Last evening -- Digging -- Beholden : on the birth of my daughter -- Arguing about moving to a larger home--what I should have said -- After the argument -- Eugene Debs in heaven -- Rocking chairs from the thirties -- On turning fifty -- His penis at eighty -- Our home movies -- Perma-war -- Cleave -- Baby daughter half asleep in a swing -- Canzone : deed and grace -- World before them -- Splendor -- A boy and his dog.