Love & selected poems

Introduction / Peter Cole

Love

Before School

Our Culture

The Dining Hall

Education

The Domestic Poem

The Revolt

from Part II

The Car

A Street

"The last year of my marriage"

Spoon and Fork

The Prayer Book

"Sometimes a step"

The Heart

The Onion Basket

"Masha, my mother"

"I tossed and turned"

To My Daughter

The Shoe

The Door

Honor

"Two or three months apart"

"I'm obliged to honor your cunt"

"I pay no attention"

"Let's join our apartments' openings"

"The body's our final farm"

"Ziva"

"I brush the teeth of the beast"

"The essence of wisdom"

"I pound my egghead"

"The pig reads nothing"

"Like the ant and the seed"

"Through folly"

"Like a butterfly"

"My heart's so full of shit"

"With each passing season and year"

"Day after day after day"

"When you were twenty"

Consecration

For National Poetry Week 1992

Again You're in Paris.