For my son on the highways of his mind ; Sperm / Maxine Kumin, November 14, 1973
Meditation at Lagunitas / Robert Hass, December 14, 1977
Dream drumming / Muriel Rukeyser, February 22, 1978
You can have it / Philip Levine, March 29, 1978
For my mother ; Autumnal ; World breaking apart / Louise Glück, February 28, 1979
Poem for South African women / June Jordan, March 21, 1979
Mirabell: books of number / James Merrill, May 23, 1979
The hang-glider's daughter / Marilyn Hacker, April 15, 1980
Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight / Galway Kinnell, March 24, 1981
XLVIII / Derek Walcott, May 5, 1982
Black buttercups / Amy Clampitt, February 22, 1983
chemotherapy / Lucille Clifton, May 3, 1983
Against starlings / Stanley Plumly, April 29, 1986
Medusa / C.K. Williams, March 1, 1988
The hunt / Molly Peacock, April 7, 1992
The want bone / Robert Pinsky, November 16, 1993
Wild gratitude / Edward Hirsch, October 2, 1993
Confessional / Frank Bidart, March 1, 1994
My father's body / William Matthews, March 29, 1994
Cows / Paul Muldoon, March 14, 1995
The cleaving / Li-Young Lee, March 29, 1995
Official inquiry among the grains of sand / Charles Simic, April 19, 1995
Ants / Eamon Grennan, March 15, 1996
Postscript: Pearl London / Robert Polito.