INCARNALITY

William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Contents

Preface: A Book of Poems in Search of a Title................................................................................xvDouble Vision................................................................................................................xviiiWatch for Deer Crossing......................................................................................................3Mrs. Van Den Bosch...........................................................................................................4On Vacation, Teaching Bass...................................................................................................5Poem Beginning with a Line Memorized at School...............................................................................7Sisters, Daughters...........................................................................................................8Seeing Pictures at the Elementary School.....................................................................................9Because I Never Learned the Names of Flowers.................................................................................10Industrial Park..............................................................................................................11Davey Falling................................................................................................................12Four-Square Gospel...........................................................................................................13Walk the Edge................................................................................................................14Letter from Home.............................................................................................................1622nd Street, Holland, Michigan...............................................................................................19Sidewalk Snowplows: Holland, Michigan, in 1940...............................................................................20Head Down....................................................................................................................21Second Commandment...........................................................................................................22Conduction...................................................................................................................23Missing Sleep................................................................................................................24X............................................................................................................................25Before He Heard of Hamelin...................................................................................................26Overheard about Mr. Bunting..................................................................................................28Coming Back Down to Hamelin..................................................................................................29Windy Night in Hamelin.......................................................................................................30The Notes He Left............................................................................................................31The Hamelin Epilogue.........................................................................................................32Chickens.....................................................................................................................34Potatoes.....................................................................................................................35Early Coffee.................................................................................................................36Wanting Supper...............................................................................................................37Lovers' Quarrel..............................................................................................................38A Gruntled Poem for Greeting a Feckfull and Wieldy Day.......................................................................39The Shore of the Sky.........................................................................................................40Early Morning Exercise, Lake Michigan........................................................................................41Fresh Fruit for Breakfast....................................................................................................42The Work of Our Hands........................................................................................................43Heading In...................................................................................................................44Going to Work at Yaddo.......................................................................................................45Touching It..................................................................................................................46Fishing over Shipwrecks, I Catch the Word Spectral...........................................................................48Report from Near the End of Time and Matter..................................................................................49Cutting Paper with Matisse...................................................................................................50Hibernation..................................................................................................................51Ancient Instruments..........................................................................................................52First Climb Up Three Surfers' Peak...........................................................................................53From Trout Run: A Poem in Seven Movements....................................................................................57Application..................................................................................................................58Two Sleepless Men............................................................................................................60After Looking Long at His Pictures of the Civil War ... I Dream of Zimmer....................................................61A Word in the Glare..........................................................................................................62Dawn Train through Valparaiso................................................................................................63Crab Cactus..................................................................................................................65Wire Triangulations..........................................................................................................66Letter to Myra Sklarew ......................................................................................................67Letter from Friesland to My Sons.............................................................................................69A Double Contention against the Scriptures...................................................................................71Flieger's Barn...............................................................................................................72To the Man in Room 321.......................................................................................................73The Weather Is Always...