| | 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 |
