Includes multiple drafts of 'The Alien', 'The Big Top', 'The Skunk Moths', 'The Wave'/'To My Mother', 'The West', 'If All the World's a Stage', 'The Storm', 'Voyager', 'The Language of Crying', 'Reading Harvey Shapiro by Lake Champlain', 'For the Record', 'The Great Ship', 'Arrival', 'Birth and Death', 'Chemotherapy', 'For the Record', 'For What It's Worth', 'The Storming', 'Morning Watch', 'The Cry Gerund', 'Our Mother', 'Paper Light', 'The Ark', 'Apologies to Crickets', 'The Birds', 'A Morning Psalm'/'Morning Watch', 'The God of Dry Mouths', 'The Green Room', 'Naming a New Species', 'The Great Gray', 'For the Birds', 'Voyager II', 'The Xmas Gift, For Robert Manuel Ferreira', 'The Memory Quilt, for Mona Phillips, a woman forgetting', 'Postcard to Katharine Washburn, 1943-2000', 'The Wordmen', 'The Interloper', 'Forgetting to Wet the Roof of my Mouth', 'The Air Display Day', 'A Hole in the Head', 'The Cough', 'From Woody's Restaurant, Middlebury, For Jay Parini', and 'If All the Worlds a Stage'. Includes some early drafts of poems and handwritten notes and comments on some of the poems.