Natural history: poems

Love song (Smelt)

Love song (Sycamores)

Pastoral

Poem beginning with a line from Frost

Romance

Four horaces

Tulip tree

Made-up-myth

Love song (toll)

Natural history

The sun

The elephant

Purple bush

The hyenas

The bear

From the life of Gorky (II)

The elephant (II)

Making purple

Pliny (II)

Inscribed on a lintel

News

Randall Jarrell

The pigeon

The elephant (III)

"There is a star in the sea"

Georgic (II)

Things I saw with my own eyes

From the life of Gorky (III)

The burial of children

Which species on earth is saddest?

The soil

"Scared by the smallest shriek of a pig, and when wounded, always give ground."