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I
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters 3
Midnight Visitors 4
The Pit of Darkness 5
Danse Macabre 6
Locusts 7
Camp II 9
Gulag Wayfarers 10
Oracle Bones 11
Heartland America 12
II
Into the Ruins 15
Old Baltimore 20
Rodin’s Gates of Hell 21
Hibakusha Nightmare 24
Advent of the Beast 25
Raskolnikov’s Dream 26
To the New City 27
Long Journey Through Night 29
The Crowned Maitreya 30 (Chaminade Literary Review
1995)
Carnelian Blemish 32
Leader of the People 33
Vignette 35
Chairman of the Board 36
At a Mass Grave 38
Wild Goose Pagodas 39
III
A Conversation on the Forum 43
Mud-Wrestlers 47
Derrida in Doubt 48
The Looking-Glass 49
IV
Elijah Lovejoy 53
Woodrow Wilson 54
Eleanor Roosevelt 55
Albert
Einstein 56
Dag Hammarskjold 57
Homage to Mark Tobey
58
Elegy for Robert Hayden 59 (Empyrea 1980)
V
To Penelope 63
Intimations 64
Kagi 65
Basic Training 66 (Chaminade Literary Review 1991)
A Visit to Aunt Amy’s 67
Leaving the Old Country 68
The Dream 69
The Dark Wood 70
Chamber Music 71
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