Table of Contents

	Introduction	p. xi
	Dedication	p. xiv
	What the Stones Know	p. 1
	Years of Solitude	p. 2
	Orange Juice	p. 3
	The Wren	p. 4
	My Father's Coat	p. 5
	David	p. 6
	My Father in the Stacks	p. 7
	Battleground State Park	p. 8
	Nine	p. 10
	Emergency Situation	p. 12
	The Ants Are Using Sticks for Walls	p. 13
	The Changeling	p. 14
	The Father, Who Could Not Swim	p. 16
	Son, Skating	p. 17
	The New Blade	p. 18
	Teenagers	p. 19
	Devotion	p. 20
	Custody	p. 21
	Mother's Day	p. 22
	Waking Instructions	p. 23
	Simple Song of Being Oneself	p. 24
	I Myself	p. 25
	And sometimes i hear this song in my head	p. 26
	Shedding Skin	p. 28
	Song of the Prodigal Son	p. 29
	Aqueducts	p. 30
	Invisibility	p. 32
	Breath	p. 33
	Almost Evenly Divided	p. 34
	At Home	p. 35
	Child Proof	p. 36
	Taking My Son to His First Day of Kindergarten	p. 37
	Bittersweet	p. 38
	First Grade	p. 40
	The New World	p. 42
	The Forest of My Hair	p. 43
	Returning to the West: Mountain Legend	p. 44
	Drifter, Owl, Mouse	p. 45
	Kind	p. 46
	Last-Minute Message for a Time Capsule	p. 47
	That Was the Summer We Had Animals	p. 48
	Lens	p. 49
	Sudden	p. 52
	Organdy Curtains, Window, South Bank of the Ohio	p. 53
	On the Suicide of a Young Boy I Did Not Know	p. 54
	What Grandma Taught Her	p. 56
	Seeing for You	p. 57
	Leaving the Light On	p. 58
	What We Want	p. 59
	What Great Grief Has Made the Empress Mute	p. 60
	Silence	p. 61
	What Gets Lost/Lo Que Se Pierde	p. 62
	Naming	p. 64
	The Higher Reaches	p. 65
	Here yet be dragons	p. 66
	Learning Persian	p. 67
	Driving	p. 68
	The Sparrow and the Crumb	p. 69
	Other Lives	p. 70
	Hitchhiker	p. 72
	The Family Car	p. 73
	"I never saw the road between our ..."	p. 74
	So Far	p. 75
	Travelling Light	p. 76
	Legend	p. 77
	Stranded	p. 78
	Today I'll Sit Still	p. 80
	This Isn't Fair	p. 81
	"Someone told me you were in love ..."	p. 82
	Insurance	p. 83
	"What are friends for, my mother asks..."	p. 84
	Going Home	p. 85
	That Kind of Marriage	p. 86
	She had thought	p. 87
	Divorce	p. 88
	My lost father	p. 89
	It Was Here--	p. 90
	Mindleaving	p. 91
	Shrink-wrapped	p. 92
	Where on This Earth	p. 94
	Garage Sale	p. 96
	Words My Friend Can't Bring Himself to Say	p. 97
	Journey	p. 98
	What Came to Me	p. 99
	Benavides, Texas, 1906	p. 100
	Letter to an Ancestor	p. 101
	The House at 5 Allende Street	p. 102
	Barns Collapsing	p. 104
	Dream House	p. 105
	Small Town	p. 106
	What Was Once Reached For	p. 108
	Father, Herald Me Home	p. 109
	The Lost Glove Is Happy	p. 110
	A Serenade	p. 112
	A Game Nobody Won	p. 113
	My Grandmother Told Us Jokes	p. 114
	The Mentalist Leaves the Stage	p. 116
	Part	p. 117
	Plum Trees	p. 118
	Work	p. 120
	Sister	p. 122
	The Question	p. 124
	My Valhalla	p. 126
	The colors of Another Home	p. 128
	Fame	p. 129
	Tutu on the Curb	p. 130
	Passing Necessity	p. 131
	Any Morning	p. 132
	Tough Ride	p. 133
	Unveiling the Vietnam Memorial	p. 134
	Thinking of What the Jury Is Deliberating	p. 136
	I Give You Back	p. 138
	Food. Music. Memory	p. 140
	The Memory Prayer	p. 141
	Raised Voices	p. 142
	Lament	p. 144
	Model of the Heart at the Franklin Institute	p. 145
	Each Night	p. 146
	Waking Up in the Morning	p. 147
	Truth	p. 148
	Regrets on the Way to an Airport	p. 149
	Processes	p. 150
	Ghazal (For William Stafford)	p. 152
	Autumn Quince	p. 153
	Cannon Beach	p. 154
	Christmas	p. 155
	Avalanche	p. 156
	Year's End	p. 158
	How Forgetting Works in Late Winter	p. 159
	Secret of Life	p. 160
	Tune	p. 161
	Something I Remember	p. 162
	The Moment for Which There Is No Name	p. 163
	Letter to Terry Dobson	p. 164
	Obituaries	p. 166
	The Black and the Dazzle	p. 167
	Valencia Street	p. 168
	Wilderness Poem	p. 169
	Dreaming Them Into the World Again	p. 170
	Notes on the Contributors	p. 172
	Acknowledgments	p. 191
	Permissions	p. 192
	Index to Losses	p. 201
	Index to Poems	p. 203
	Index to Poets	p. 205

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