Thanks for posting this, Jim. Although I have Muldoon's collected poems at home, I haven't yet read it and in fact know nothing about his work at all, I'm ashamed to say. I've read the poem you've posted through just once, but my mind is so befogged by grading freshman compositions today that I'm not going to try rereading it for a while to try to figure out what the poem's argument is. Like Janet, I find something appealing about the poem, its sounds and feel, but as I said, my first hasty reading has left me wondering what it's getting at. I'm curious if this is a problem for others. Does anyone want to attempt an exposition of poem, giving a broad outline of its argument?
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