| For a Daughter Who Leaves A woman weaves |
| Interstate Highway As on a crowded Interstate the drivers in boredom |
| Daughters, 1900 Five daughters, in the slant light on the porch, |
| The Bistro Styx She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness |
| A Newborn Girl at Passover Consider one apricot in a basket of them. |
| A Prayer for my Daughter Once more the storm is howling, and half hid |
| A Little Tooth Your baby grows a tooth, then two, |
| The Writer In her room at the prow of the house |
| The Pomegranate The only legend I have ever loved is |
| Achill I lie and imagine a first light gleam in the bay |
| Heart's Needle Child of my winter, born |
| Morning Song Love set you going like a fat gold watch. |
| Home After Three Months Away Gone now the baby's nurse, |
| Ladders Filene's department store |
| Father's Song Yesterday, against admonishment |