Harping on : [electronic resource] poems 1985-1995 / Carolyn Kizer.

The valley of the fallen -- Ingathering -- Election day, 1984 -- Gerda -- Pearl -- Reunion -- An American beauty -- On a line from Valèry -- Suppressing the evidence -- Fearful women -- Halation -- Mud soup -- Parents' pantoum -- Arthur's party -- In hell with Virg and Dan -- Lost in translation -- Cultural evolution -- Four translations (A present for tu fu, Maryam, What is true, Tirade for the next-to-last act) -- Medicine -- Poem for your birthday -- Marriage song -- Index, a mountain -- Song for Muriel -- Twelve o'clock -- Anniversaries : Claremont Avenue from 1945 -- Fin-de-siècle blues.

"Did you see someone cold-cock a blind nun? / Well, I did. Two helpful idiots / Steered her across the tarmac to her plane / And led her smack into the wing. / She deplaned with two black eyes & a crooked wimple, / Bruised proof that the distinction is not simple / Between ineptitude and evil."