DATE DUE BRODART Cat No 23-221 THE MILD DAY by William Bronk LightandDark (1956) The World, the Worldless (1964) The Empty Hands (1969) That Tantalus To Praise theMusic (1972) TheNew World A) A PartialGlossary: Two Essays (1974) SilenceandMetaphor (1975) FindingLosses (1976) l^heMeantime (1976) My FatherPhotographedwith Friends (1976) The Force ofDesire (1979) The Brotherin Elysium: Ldeas ofFriendship andSociety in the UnitedStates (1980) Life Supports: New and CollectedPoems (1981) VectorsandSmoothable Curves: CollectedEssays (1983) CarelessLoveandItsApostrophes (1985) Manifest; andFurthermore(1987) Death Is the Place LivingInstead(1991) Some Words (1992) TheMildDay (1993) THE MILD DAY poems by WILLIAM BRONK Talisman House, Publishers Hoboken, New Jersey copyright ©1993 William Bronk All rights reserved Published in the United States ofAmerica by Talisman House, Publishers Box 1117 Hoboken, NJ 07030 Manufactured in the United States ofAmerica Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bronk, William. The mild day : poems / by William Bronk p. cm. ISBN 1-883689-01-5 (lib. bdg.) : $29.95. ~ ISBN: 1-883689-00-7 (pbk.) $9.95 : I. Title PS3552.R65M5 1993 8ir.54~dc20 93-5346 CIP 1 CONTENTS SAFARI 5 CENTRAL CASTING 6 SHORT WALK 7 LEFT ALONE 8 WHAT'S REAL 9 WHO'S THERE 10 SOSTENUTO 1 EASY VIRTUE 12 VERBAL 13 THE SEEING EYE 14 GOOD STORY 15 SUBJECT MATTER 16 ON OUR OWN 17 WASTREL 18 THE DRAWING 19 THE JUNCTURE 20 THE SWITCHYARD 21 STORY TIME 22 SIMPLY STATED 23 DISCRETIONARY 24 INDICATIVE 25 THE SAYER 26 EMPOWERMENT 27 UNCREATION 28 ON OR OFF THE FIELD 29 FAITHFUL REPLICA 30 DIVIDERS 31 SPADES, KETTLES AND ANONYMITY THE FIELD 33 MISCALLING 34 MAIN FRAME 35 NON-SPATIAL 36 IMPOVERISHMENT 37 THE WAY IT WORKS 38 SPEECHES 39 OUTSIDE 40 ADVERSE POSSESSION 41 HOW WE HANDLE PRACTICAL MATTERS TRANSACTIONS 43 LOVE'S AVERMENT 44 TERMINOLOGY 45 ENCOUNTER 46 SUBVERSIVES 47 DEFLATION 48 TOKEN 49 THE CONFLAGRATION 50 ACTS OF DEVOTION 51 NOT NOR NO YES 52 MORNING 53 BARE BOARDS AT THE GLOBE 54