Against silence

Part one. Why the dead cannot answer ; At the shore ; Mourning what we thought we were ; Words reek worlds ; The moral arc of the universe bends toward justice ; Behind the lion ; The fifth hour of the night

Part two. The ghost ; Poem with a refrain from LeRoy Chatfield ; The great, the one subject ; Poem beginning with words by Lisel Mueller ; Dialogue with flesh ; Coda ; On my seventy-eighth.