Dismantlements of silence : poems selected and new / William Virgil Davis.

Early uncollected poems
The pond
The hunt
In memory
The hawk
Following the stones
Aftermath
Alms
Razing the set
Leaving the cathedral
When things get out of hand
Variation on a theme by Stevens
The swamp
Confrontation in a rented cabin
Small town on a winter night
Letter to my brothers
The obstruction
I-35, south of Waco
The jewel casket
No time for welcome
Driftwood summer
The tree
Pentimento
On a hill in Crete
Ashes
Coming home
From one way to reconstruct the scene
Another night with snow
After the funeral
A triptych for my father
View from the backyard
My son in snow
Winter light
Driving alone in winter
The sleep of the insomniac
The oxygen tent
The cat in the snow
A late elegy for John Berryman
January
Spider
The ring tree
Mexico, my friend
Way to reconstruct the scene
The weight lifter
The leaving
An odor of chrysanthemums
In a room
That house, this room
Cultivation of pain
Snow
The time of year, the hour
The place of lost breath
Breakfast as a last resort
From winter light
Fragments
Legacy
Snow in Ohio
Pathetique
The watchers
Windows
The polar bear
A man and his hat
An evening in advent
The light
Winter walk
From landscape and journey
Landscape
In the cold air register
Those sunday mornings
The Ohio poem
Winter solstice
Scenes from childhood
Double elegy
A vision in late afternoon
October with rain
The river: a vision
Vigil at Heiligenkreuz
Stave church
A visit to Manafon
Tapestry
"Landscape with a pollard willow"
Winter roses
Pomegranates
Poem ending with a variation on a line by Charles Wright
A street scene
Sestina with two lines by Charles Tomlinson
First light.

A night at the movies
Courtyard looking toward Artemis from the west cloister
Poem beginning and ending with a variation of a line by Geoffrey Hill
Something I cannot name has come close to me
November
Pilgrimage
Diet
Call
The other
What we said
An affair
"Border view, Hot Springs, Texas"
From the bones poems
Proem
After centuries
Their arrival
The bones meet the bones
In the pit
The bones die and go on living
Following the bones
The recognition
Their odyssey
In the dark
They make love
After three days
They gather together
Trespass
Meeting the bones
Where the bones move
Their sleep
After dark
Some things the bones never know
The bones in search of a bed
Renting your bed to the bones
Their words
The bones come home
In far fields
Their death
Oil
The promise
And if shriven at last they rise
Not many years
Their departure
Into the dark
Growing darker as they deepen
At rest
New poems
Rothko's "presences"
Home visit
A cat named Lonesome
A postcard from San Gimignano
Home from the factory
The voyeur
Winterset
The difference between art and artifice
The last team
Near the cabin
An early November meditation
A walk around the block
A visit.