from The Night of the Hammer (1959)
A Description of the Sea for Lena Lenzi Who Has Never Seen It
An Incident Early in the World's History
On Saint Theresa's Difficulty in Keeping Her Feet on the Ground
On Turning the Page of a Jeweled Book
The Complaint of a Young Priest
from Adam Before His Mirror (1961)
I Am a Falcon, Hooded ...
A Poem in a Time of Deepest Pondering
To the Poet Who Concurred in Dragons
Paolo Learns Gravity at Twelve O'Clock Noon
A Poem to Paula and a Poem to Ned
A Reflection on the Paraclete
The Ear in Autumn: An Instruction for the Wild Sara
Great Grandfather, Clam Diggers and Homer
Two Poems on the Creation of a Statue of a Maenad
The Tent, the Song, the Sign, the Element
The Boyhood of Nguyen Van Vinh
Webbed, Yellow-Billed and Aquamarine
from The Buzzard and the Peacock (1964)
The Toad with the Blind Eye
A Child of Light, a Child of Dark
Counsels to a Benedictine Novice
A Rectification of the Lyric
The Heretic and the Dancer
Hunting Hawks in Ethiopia
