Acknowledgments; Cuckoo's Report; Cloak; The Vernal Landscapes; Capsized; Wanting the Ten-Fingered Grasp of Things; The Body Is Placed, but the Spirit Is Emigrant; Rus in Urbe; Genealogy; Sortilege; Prodigal Song; The Craft Must Be Lighter-Than-Air; What Adjective; The Eve Of; You Have Given Me Such a Delicious Dish; Nocturne; Weather Eye Open; You Are Looking for Wings on a Wolf; Likeness Is the Mother of Love; Gimcrack Scenery; The Minors; Jurisdiction; Instructions for the Little Painter; Grist; Impasto; Approach in Removable Galleries; Saturation, a Dwelling Place; Miller's Ruth
Sweet Outline Lost in AtmosphereNoises in Annunciation; Locus Amenus; Gentle Gnomonics; Wild Clary; Slipping Jurisdiction; Suppressed O: Additional Turns in Outdoor Pragmatism; Terrestrial; There Is No Answer to What They Think; Codlings; Etude; Death and the Maiden; Chatterton; Dialogue of Comfort; Long Division; A Fine Cage Won't Feed the Bird; Between Sail and Tiller; Industrial Magdalene; Swayamvara; Jupiter; Psyche Speaks of Eros; What Is Lost in the Fire Must Be Sought in the Ashes; Notes; Acknowledgments of Permissions
The windmill's labor is contingent upon the weather, upon what air masses, at any given time, overlie its landscape. Anticipatory in mood, Weather Eye Open adopts the emblem of the windmill, seeking what Merleau-Ponty calls the "inspiration and expiration of Being." The windmill serves as analogue to the perceiving subject, to the poet, whose consciousness, though rooted and partial, is yet always receptive to being energized, turned. Like open sails, the perceiver ushers the weather indoors, converting one motion, the wind, to another, the grinding burrstones. The poems in this collection pur
