| Poem | 3 |
| Rape in the Engineering Building | 4 |
| The Blue Booby | 5 |
| The Day Lost | 7 |
| The Pet Deer | 8 |
| Cryptozoa | 9 |
| Plea Based on a Sentence from a Letter Received by the Indiana State Welfare Department | 10 |
| The Salute | 11 |
| Up Here | 12 |
| Applause for a Husband | 14 |
| Prose Poem | 16 |
| Dead-End Agenda | 17 |
| Coda | 18 |
| Cosmology | 19 |
| The Tryst | 20 |
| Pity Ascending with the Fog | 21 |
| The Coming Out of Ourselves Party | 22 |
| Little Yellow Leaf | 24 |
| Pride's Crossing | 25 |
| Dark Street | 29 |
| The Indian Undertaker | 30 |
| A Pretty Girl Like That | 31 |
| Camping in the Valley | 32 |
| Peddler | 34 |
| The Tree Surgeon | 36 |
| The Answering Service | 38 |
| The Destination | 39 |
| Leaving Mother Waiting for Father | 40 |
| The Initiation | 41 |
| Cecca Farfalla | 42 |
| "The Whole World's Sadly Talking to Itself" | 43 |
| Consumed | 44 |
| Nativity | 45 |
| Shadowboxing | 46 |
| The Crushing Rose | 47 |
| Images of Little Compton, Rhode Island | 54 |
| From the Hole | 55 |
| The Trap | 56 |
| The Torches | 57 |
| The Plaza | 59 |
| Twilight Sustenance Hiatus | 60 |
| The Wheelchair Butterfly | 63 |
| It's Not the Heat So Much as the Humidity | 65 |
| The Eagle Exterminating Company | 67 |
| The Arsonist as Benefactor | 68 |
| The Sleeper | 70 |
| The President Slumming | 71 |
| Vengeance | 72 |
| Jim's All Night Diner | 73 |
| Mrs. America | 74 |
| Scenario for Revolutionaries | 75 |
| Brotherhood/Shrouded Bridge | 77 |
| Stray Animals | 79 |
| When Kabir Died | 80 |
| Failed Tribute to the Stonemason of Tor House, Robinson Jeffers | 81 |
| Conjuring Roethke | 83 |
| Fire Dance | 85 |
| Dear Reader | 87 |
| No End to Fall River | 88 |
| Bennington | 89 |