| Introduction / Christopher Merrill | 15 |
| Eclipse | 23 |
| Responsibility | 25 |
| The Arm | 26 |
| The Cross | 27 |
| Homage to Hat & Uncle Guido & Eliot | 29 |
| Peace to the People of This Earth | 30 |
| Pity | 31 |
| Tea | 32 |
| Vacation Time | 33 |
| "One day in the dining room..." | 34 |
| Heracles | 35 |
| "If you grab a chicken..." | 36 |
| Proverbs | 37 |
| Let's Wait | 38 |
| "I read about Borges..." | 39 |
| I Have a Horse | 40 |
| Jonah | 41 |
| Are Angels Green? | 42 |
| Silently Flutter the Angels | 43 |
| The Shadow | 44 |
| "Lord, how I rise..." | 45 |
| The Difference | 46 |
| Drums | 47 |
| Sunflower | 48 |
| Dead Men | 51 |
| Pirates and St. Francis | 54 |
| Red Flowers | 55 |
| Words | 56 |
| Who's Who | 57 |
| I See | 59 |
| Weight | 60 |
| I Am a Mason | 61 |
| White Ithaka | 62 |
| "One must cook well..." | 63 |
| For Ana | 64 |
| July 30, Andraz | 67 |
| Branko | 68 |
| In Central Europe | 69 |
| "My boundary stones..." | 70 |
| "Every wild man..." | 70 |
| King of Birds | 71 |
| Poem | 72 |
| "Great poets..." | 73 |
| Yucatan | 74 |
| "Who's better..." | 75 |
| Christmas Poem | 76 |
| History | 77 |
| Grass | 78 |
| September 20, 1972 | 80 |
| "My mind skis from village to village..." | 82 |
| "My mind is a woman, a male Medici..." | 82 |
| "My mind has the scent of a an altar triptych..." | 83 |
| "My mind has the scent of a white flower..." | 83 |
| "All these are gifts..." | 84 |
| The Rabbit | 85 |
| Young Men | 86 |
| "A tribe, an insufficient velvet..." | 87 |
| About the Slavs | 88 |
| Air | 89 |
| Charles d'Orleans | 90 |
| Imperialism Takes Off My Head | 91 |
| Krakow | 92 |
| Cold | 94 |
| Sand | 95 |
| "You're taking the piece of iron..." | 96 |
| Snow | 97 |
| Nikola Tesla | 98 |
| The Word | 99 |
| Oops! | 100 |
| Epistle to the Angry Ones | 101 |
| Turbines | 102 |
| Car le vice | 103 |
| Birthdays | 104 |
| The North | 105 |
| Bitches Angels | 106 |
| "White..." | 107 |
| Painted Desert | 108 |
| To Tender Bambi's Eyes, to the White Father | 110 |
| 1/1/73 | 111 |
| Raw Sienna | 112 |
| "Little robin..." | 113 |
| "I am an innocent little girl..." | 113 |
| Maria | 114 |
| The Color of Time | 119 |
| My First Time in New York City | 120 |
| The Level Road | 123 |
| Astrophysics and Us | 124 |
| Luiza | 125 |
| "I implore the masters..." | 126 |
| November 11, 1954 | 128 |
| Braco! | 130 |
| I Love You | 131 |
| "Whoever reads me..." | 133 |
| The Hymn of Universal Duty | 134 |
| Acquedotto | 135 |
| People | 136 |
| Angel's Method | 137 |
| "Durer's hare..." | 138 |
| I Know | 139 |
| Clumsy Guys | 140 |
| The Stage of the Manichaeans | 141 |
| "Emptiness..." | 143 |
| Folk Song | 143 |
| The Field of Ptuj | 144 |
| Man with the Golden Eye | 145 |
| The Boat | 146 |
| Small Wonder That Our Old Professor Is Now Mayor of Rome | 147 |
| Marko | 148 |
| Epitaph | 149 |
| Light Not Fed by Light | 150 |
| One, My Arm | 151 |
| Memory | 152 |
| "With my tongue..." | 153 |
| Paris, 1978 | 154 |
| Pour un jeune Chalamoun qui se vend dans la rue | 155 |
| The Right of the Strong | 156 |
| "Who should we call..." | 157 |
| Gesture | 159 |
| Functions | 160 |
| Schooling | 163 |
| Whale, Whale, Stay Alone! | 167 |
| The Fish | 168 |
| Home | 170 |
| To the Traveler | 171 |
| Rabbit Oaxaqueno | 172 |
| Black Madonna | 173 |
| Sonnet About Milk | 174 |
| The Tree of Life | 175 |
| Prayer for Bread | 176 |
| The Power of the Oeuvre | 177 |
| Lapis Lazuli | 178 |
| Sky Above Queretaro | 179 |
| Cantina in Queretaro | 180 |
| For David | 181 |
| Nihil est in intellectu... | 182 |
| Turtle | 183 |
| To the Deaf Ones | 184 |
| Death's Window | 186 |
| Light for Hamdija Demirovic | 187 |
| Light-blue Pillow | 188 |
| The Hunter | 189 |
| To Read: To Love | 190 |
| Alone | 191 |
| I Lovingly Keep Watch | 192 |
| The Wheel | 193 |
| No More | 194 |
| Trout | 195 |
| My Tribe | 196 |
| Man and Boy | 197 |
| Help Me! | 198 |
| The Blue Vault | 199 |
| To a Hero of Our Time | 200 |
| The Burning Bush | 201 |
| Guilt and Passion | 202 |
| To Him Who Was Prohibiting Me His Name | 203 |
| Birds | 204 |
| Red Cliff | 205 |
| Pont-Neuf | 206 |
| The Measure of Time | 207 |
| Lips | 208 |
| To a Golem | 209 |
| Shepherd | 210 |
| The Window | 211 |
| Happiness is Hot, Splattered Brains | 213 |
| The Deer | 214 |
| The Four Questions of Melancholy | 215 |
| St. Moritz on the Park | 216 |
| I and Thou | 217 |
| Walls | 218 |
| I Am Your Soul, Your Dove | 219 |
| Milina, My Line | 220 |
| Christ at Hermes' Door | 221 |
| The Tree of Redemption | 223 |
| The Sea Lasts | 224 |
| "Hear me out..." | 226 |
| Litmus | 227 |
| The Neck | 228 |
| To Edvard Kocbek on his 70th Birthday | 230 |
| Walled in Alive | 231 |
| Rattenau | 232 |
| Snakeskin, Samurai's Eye | 234 |
| Outline and Eternity | 235 |
| "I long for solid earth..." | 236 |
| Earth | 237 |
| Wounds | 238 |
| Versailles | 240 |
| Riva | 241 |
| Lacquer | 244 |
| Who's Standing | 245 |
| The Dromedary from the Altar at Ghent | 246 |
| In Antwerp, at the Stagecoach | 247 |
| In Galilee, 1990 | 248 |
| Photograph with a Quote from Yazoo: Deep in Each Other's Dream | 249 |
| Ambergris | 250 |
| Mishkenot Sha'ananim | 252 |
| The Walk | 254 |
| Johannes | 255 |
| Kiss the Eyes of Peace | 257 |
| Index of Poems and Translators | 259 |
| About the Poet | 265 |
| About the Editor | 265 |