On a photograph by Dorothea Lange
Fantasia on three sentences from a letter by Robert Lowell
Sestina for a national security advisor
Talking Mrs. Carbone blues
A visitation (1968) The uses of literature
One morning in California
"My son has a persistent qualitative motor disorder"
Elegy for Paul Butterfield
For his part: Walt Whitman (1863)
Abandoned asylum, Northampton, Massachusetts.
