What Love Comes To: New & Selected Poems

Title Page
 Note to the Reader
 Ruth Stone and Her Poems
 NEW POEMS
 What Love Comes To (2008)
 Tendrils
 The Alien
 The Old Story
 Imprint of the Stereoscopic Cards
 Setting Type
 The Real Travelers
 Work
 From Where We Are
 What It Comes To
 Memory
 All in Time
 But You're Only Sleeping on the Bus
 For the Dead
 Eta Carinae
 Strings
 Immolation
 Speaking to My Dead Mother
 The Basic Question
 Gone
 Monetary Problems
 The Follies of My Youth
 The Dorm
 Sin
 A Leap in Memory
 The Dog
 Why I Left California
 The Porch
 Tsunami
 Fragrance
 A Short History of My Brother
 The Bungalow. Song of the MouseAcrostic
 The Möbius Strip of Grief
 Where I Am
 Weapons
 Poetry
 Bus Station
 This
 From the Porch
 What to Do
 Progression
 Kansas as Africa
 Wind Chimes
 Eve, Also
 The Fig Tree
 How It Is
 The Dilemma
 Even Now
 No Doubt
 The Long Chill
 Goshen
 Marcia
 Where Is Everybody?
 Old Cars
 Arizona
 Straight from the Mouth of the Head Honcho, and I Quote
 Certainly Not
 Yes, What?
 One Year I Lived in Earlysville, Virginia
 Lighter Than Air
 Barren
 For Abigail on Her Birthday
 Changes
 Changes
 Flowers
 Language
 Progression II
 Connections
 from In an Iridescent Time (1959). MemoirThe Magnet
 In an Iridescent Time
 The Season
 In the Interstices
 The Burned Bridge
 The Awakening
 Orchard
 Home Movie
 The Mold
 Swans
 Love's Relative
 Vernal Equinox
 from Topography and Other Poems (1971)
 Dream of Light in the Shade
 The Talking Fish
 Being Human, 
 Tenacity
 The Excuse
 The Sun with Mr. Parker's Help
 The Plan
 Poles
 Green Apples
 Shades of Red
 A Fowl Life
 Birds
 Breakfast in Paris with Nasturtiums
 Fairy Tales
 Behind the Façade
 Coda
 I Have Three Daughters
 A Mother Looks at Her Child
 Changing
 Tension
 Advice
 Healing
 Seat Belt Fastened?
 Fifteen
 Hunger. MetamorphosisWild Asters
 Topography
 from Cheap: New Poems and Ballads 1975
 Bargain
 Cheap
 Sabbatical Love
 Codicil
 Loss
 The Tree
 Vegetables I
 Vegetables II
 Periphery
 Separate
 As Now
 Path
 Communion
 Being a Woman
 Cocks and Mares
 The Nose
 from Second-Hand Coat: Poems New and Selected 1987
 Second-Hand Coat
 Where I Came From
 Poetry
 How to Catch Aunt Harriette
 What Can You Do?
 Drought in the Lower Fields
 Pokeberries
 Liebeslied
 Curtains
 Winter
 Shadows
 You May Ask
 Names
 Why Kid Yourself
 Message from Your Toes
 The Room
 American Milk. How Aunt Maud Took to Being a WomanComments of the Mild
 When the Furnace Goes On in a California Tract House
 Surviving in Earlysville with a Broken Window
 Happiness
 Turn Your Eyes Away
 Some Things You'll Need to Know Before You Jointhe Union
 Women Laughing
 Translations
 fromWho Is the Widow's Muse?1991
 All Time Is Past Time
 I
 II
 X
 XIII
 XLII
 XLIII
 XVI
 XVIII
 XIX
 XX
 XXI
 XLIV
 XXXIV
 XLV
 XXXVII
 XXIX
 L
 LI
 LII
 from Simplicity 1995
 Against Loss
 Ripple Effect
 Plumbing
 That Winter
 Resonance
 The Wound
 The News
 That Day
 Things I Say to Myself while Hanging Laundry.