Published by Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT 06459

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      © 2008 by Marianne Boruch

      All rights reserved

      First Wesleyan paperback 2010

      ISBN for the paperback edition: 978–0–8195–6953–0

      CIP data appear at the end of the book

      Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1

      COVER ILLUSTRATION: Hammershoi, Wilhelm (1864–1916). “Rest,” oil on canvas, 1905, 49.5 x 46.5 cm. Photo: Michele Bellot. Photo courtesy of Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, NY. Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.

This project is supported in part by an awardfrom the National Endowment for the Arts

      Wesleyan University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper.

      —in memory of Don Dunlap, still here

      “Only one thing is true: in me, a weight, a little stone.”

      —Paul Klee

      CONTENTS

       A Moment

       I

       Still Life

       New Paper

       Studying History

       After the Moon

       A Musical Idea

       Omniscience

       Nice

       Seven Aubades for Summer

       The Park in November

       Radio

       The Doctor

       Light on Four Sides

       II

       The Body

       St. Francis in Winter

       Ladder against a House

       Lunch

       Piano with Distance

       Hello

       Simple Machines

       Relics

       Glenn Gould Breathing

       Happiness: Three Definitions

       Minus Minus

       At the Same Time

       Think of the Words

       In a Frame, It Matters

       All Night

       The Drawing Manual

       Snowfall in G Minor

       Ambition

       Map

       February

       III

       What God Knew

       The Tin House

       The Garden

       The Deer

       Telepathy

       Winter

       Learning to Read

       Yes Loves No

       In the Woods: a Suite

       Half Morning Song

       Elevator