The Gods As They Are, On Their Planets - The Poet's Press

PROLOGUE
Prologue 11
Between the Pages 11
Entre Las Hojas 11
Why Poetry? 12
C O N T E N T S
LIBER ANNIVERSARII: AUTUMN POEMS
In Chill November 13
The Fence 14
To the Arc of the Sublime 16
October Storm 1998 19
Autumn Lyric 19
Autumn (Alexander Pushkin, 1833) 20
On Receiving A Gift of Books in Early October 23
Autumn Sundays in Madison Square 24
In Prague, A Tree of Many Colors 26
September in Gotham 2001 27
Runaways 30
THE GODS AS THEY ARE, ON THEIR PLANETS
Viking 31
The Gods As They Are, On Their Planets 31
When Worlds Collide 32
Autumn on Mars 34
Pluto Demoted 34
POETICA LOVECRAFTIANA
Maker of Monsters, Maker of Gods 36
Dreaming of Ur-R’lyeh 37
The Tree At Lovecraft’s Grave 40
Under Lovecraft’s Grave 41
Frank and Lyda 43
THINGS SEEN IN GRAVEYARDS
After the Storm 46
Hart Island 46
Night Walker 47
An Exeter Vampire, 1799 48
Graveyards I’d Like To See 50
The Harvestman 52
The Ear Mound Shrine, Kyoto 54
Aceldema, the Field of Blood 56
Mrs. Weeden, of Pawtucket 57