The second half of City in Eclogue
     In Standing Strong at first I thought that he chose to wear mismatch shoes, it's not until the end that you find he did not, this appears to be about a man in a gang, examples ". . .one of your boys was gunned . . . lights a hole through the gang hours . . . the night crimes". There are four religious referances in this poem; in the second paragraph when he says "no more shamanic a dress up than that" being a reference to shamanism. canonical incantations in the third paragraph, kind of an contradictory statement seeing as canonical means "belonging to the canon of the bible"(dictionary) and Christianity doesn't really cater to incantations. The next is in the the end of the third beginning of the forth paragraph, "his feet washed by the hands. . ." being a reference to Jesus washing the feet of the apostles, ". . . of black angels" black could mean dark or African American black in this instance. the last one I saw is at the end of the forth paragraph when it mentions towels and basins it made me think of Poutius Pilate washing his hands of Jesus' crucifixion.
     Ornithologies is the zoological field that is devoted to the study of birds, and as such almost all the poems have references to birds in them. in the first one, Urban Nature, he says it is specifically "not the dead of no bird sing" and he also mentions the "hawk's kiosks". then the topic skips two poems to come back in Open/ Back Up(breadth of fields) when he mentions "the auspice" which according to the dictionary is a form of deviation using birds. In Monk's Bird Book it mentions morning doves and talks extensively about owls and their soft, silent feathers. In Painting From Science for Hui Ka-Kwong it mentions the reptilian linage of birds. One In Its Oldest Body is sort of a set up for Ornithology which set up the image of the trains arrival board resembling a flock of gulls. the gulls continue in Cowry She which is actually mostly about a mollusk.
   The last two poems caught my attention because they are mostly about time, a very important thing to think about even though in counting it you lose it. The second to last poem addresses the commonly used analog clock and the less common hour glass. the last one addresses in detail the sundial and how it works and all the physics related to keeping tract of shadows, going so far as to quote the bible about the valley of the shadow of death (reference found in psalms 23:4, your welcome for finding that so you don't have to).