The Apple Trees at Olema电子书

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

New Poems

July Notebook

Sleep like the down elevator’s

In front of me six African men, each of them tall

They are built like exclamation points, woodpeckers.

Are you there? It’s summer. Are you smeared with the juice of cherries?

After Coleridge and for Milosz

For C.R.

Late afternoons in June the fog rides in

August Notebook

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4

Variations on a Passage in Edward Abbey

The Bus to Baekdam Temple

Song of the Border Guard

September Notebook

Everyone comes from a long way off

Driving up 80 in the haze, they talked and talked.

Alternatively

He found that it was no good trying to tell

Names for involuntary movements of the body—

The receptionist at the hospital morgue told him

Setup without the punchline

Once there were two sisters called Knock Me and Sock Me

“Why?” he asked. “Because she was lonely

It is good to sit down to birthday cake

Stories about the distribution of wealth

How Eldie Got Her Name

Punchline without the setup

He had known, as long as he’d known anything

Because she, not her sister, answered the door

A Ballad

She looked beautiful, and looked her age, too.

Two jokes walk into a bar.

In the other world the girls were named Eleanor and Filina

Some of David’s Story

Snowy Egret

The Red Chinese Dragon and the Shadows on Her Body in the Moonlight

From Field Guide

On the Coast near Sausalito

Fall

Maps

Adhesive

Bookbuying in the Tenderloin

Spring

Song

Palo Alto

Concerning the Afterlife, the Indians of Central California Had Only the Dimmest Notions

The Nineteenth Century as a Song

Measure

Applications of the Doctrine

House

In Weather

From Praise

Heroic Simile

Meditation at Lagunitas

Sunrise

The Yellow Bicycle

Against Botticelli

Like Three Fair Branches from One Root Deriv’d

Transparent Garments

The Image

The Feast

The Pure Ones

The Garden of Delight

Santa Lucia

To a Reader

The Origin of Cities

Winter Morning in Charlottesville

Old Dominion

Monticello

Emblems of a Prior Order

Weed

Child Naming Flowers

Picking Blackberries with a Friend Who Has Been Reading Jacques Lacan

The Beginning of September

Not Going to New York

Songs to Survive the Summer

From Human Wishes

Spring Drawing

Vintage

Spring Rain

Late Spring

Rusia en 1931

Spring Drawing 2

Calm

Museum

Novella

Churchyard

Conversion

Human Wishes

Tall Windows

The Harbor at Seattle

Paschal Lamb

Duck Blind

Quartet

A Story About the Body

In the Bahamas

January

The Apple Trees at Olema

Misery and Splendor

Santa Lucia II

Cuttings

Santa Barbara Road

Berkeley Eclogue

Privilege of Being

Natural Theology

Tahoe in August

Thin Air

Between the Wars

On Squaw Peak

From Sun Under Wood

Happiness

Our Lady of the Snows

Dragonflies Mating

My Mother’s Nipples

The Gardens of Warsaw

Layover

Notes on “Layover”

The Woods in New Jersey

Iowa City

A Note on “Iowa City

Sonnet

Faint Music

Forty Something

Shame

Regalia for a Black Hat Dancer

Jatun Sacha

Frida Kahlo

English

The Seventh Night

Interrupted Meditation

From Time and Materials

Iowa, January

After Trakl

Envy of Other People’s Poems

A Supple Wreath of Myrtle

Futures in Lilacs

Three Dawn Songs in Summer

The Distribution of Happiness

Etymology

The Problem of Describing Color

The Problem of Describing Trees

Winged and Acid Dark

A Swarm of Dawns, a Flock of Restless Noons

Breach and Orison

The World as Will and Representation

After the Winds

For Czesław Miłosz in Kraków

Time and Materials

Art and Life

Domestic Interiors

Twin Dolphins

Then Time

That Music

Czesław Miłosz

Horace

State of the Planet

Poem with a Cucumber in It

Drift and Vapor (Surf Faintly)

“…White of Forgetfulness, White of Safety”

I Am Your Waiter Tonight and My Name Is Dmitri

A Poem

Bush’s War

Pears

The Dry Mountain Air

First Things at the Last Minute

Poet’s Work

Mouth Slightly Open

Old Movie with the Sound Turned Off

Ezra Pound’s Proposition

On Visiting the DMZ at Panmunjon

Consciousness

Exit, Pursued by a Sierra Meadow

September, Inverness

Notes and Acknowledgments

About the Author

Other Books by Robert Hass

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher