In this new collection of poems, the National Book Award-winning poet explores the meaning of mature love in a sustained meditation on faithfulness, on the sustenance of intimacy, and on grief as the door to deep emotion

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Alone A Few Hours
The Artist At Fifty
At Midocean
At The Time Of Peony Blossoming
Come With Me
The Conditions
Conversation
Conversation With A Holy Woman Not Seen For Many Years
Ferns
Fifty Males Sitting Together
Finding Shark's Teeth In A Rock
Firmness
The Good Silence
The Hawk
The Horse Of Desire
The Hummingbird Valley
In Rainy September
In The Month Of May
The Indigo Bunting
Letter To Her
Listening To The Koln Concert
Love Poem In Twos And Threes
A Man And A Woman And A Blackbird
The March Buds
The Minnow Turning
The Minty Grass
The Moose
Mountain Grass
Night Frogs
Night Winds
No Mountain Peak Without Its Rolling Foothills
Out Of The Rolling Ocean, The Crowd
Poem On Sleep
Returning Poem
The Roots
Secrets
Seeing You Carry Plants In
Shame
Such Different Wants
A Third Body
The Turtle
Two People At Dawn
The Two River
Water
What Frightened Us
What Moves And Doesn't Move
What We Provide
The Whole Moisty Night
Winter Poem
Words Barely Heard
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

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