- Introduction
- "As Tiny Sea-Birds…"
- Ode on 30th Street Station
- Meditation from the Steps of the Art Museum
- Challenge
- Written on the Rocks, Vinal Haven, ME
- Meeting an Old Friend on the Wissahickon
- Orchestrations Walking on Delancey Street
- "The Seeing Fails…"
- An Old Man's Travelogue
- Winter Sonnet (Odd)
- Lullaby for a Cat
- Winter Song
- Tigger at the Window
- Evening Blues for Solo Guitar
- Foundling Cat
- Delancey Sreet at Noon
- Lisa Happy
- Sonnet from Exile
- Evening Encounter
- Pecking Order
- Mannequins in Nan Duskin's Window
Winter Sonnet (Odd)
Let us walk these splendid fields
Where tawny winter licks its paws
And sleeps; and let us pick such straws
And leaves as we may find for shields
To keep the time at bay.
Dried leaves make pale remembrance
Of spring, but better sidelong glance
Than none.
....
Can winter stay
When every other season dies?
The headlong round of time goes on,
Regardless of our preference
For good or the insanities
We choose: both pass and soon are gone,
And life is not in past but future tense.
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