Wherever I look you are islands
a constellation of flowers breathing on the sea
deep-forested islands mountainous and fragrant

Enough inside jokes,
let's move this bash out
under the stars. Heap up

Tonight I saw Dustin Hoffman
walking down Lexington Avenue.
He lives on 61st Street

I was warm on the quadrangle
Warm on the grass by the library steps
Eating my sandwich

I still liked anyothertime,
anyotherplace. which means most
of my life, but it was now,

She called the white ducks with a soft
Clucking of her tongue and they came to
Her busy hands for the hard corn she shelled.

most people have absolutely the wrong idea of how to go about cutting a throat, the right way to do it on animals anatomically similar to humans such as dogs, sheep, veal calves and very young pigs—emphatically not on full-grown pigs 

The pains so produced
are not, of course, excruciating—
more abstract,

We grow old, trying to display such
riches, trying to create scenery
that will hold it in perspective.

I’ve carried this one inside me
like an animal, trying to reabsorb
what wasn’t mine.