Contents
Meet the Beatles
I.
Across the Street
Cahaba Heights
Preamble
Shades Creek, Panther Sighting
My Mother’s Morning Walks
The Alabama Theater
Doormat
The Shirelles
Cold Sweat
Gum
In the Check-Out
Enrichment
Vestavia
Wyeth
Our Lady of Sorrows
Montevallo
The Chance for a Simple Act
Where She Walked
II.
Majestic Diner
III.
She Went In and Out
The Monkey
The Waiter
Italian Suit
Nuclear Medicine
Lookout Mountain
A Falcon Swoops Near Me
I’m Practicing Dance Moves
Trastevere
The End of Analysis
Venus in Transit
Björklunden
A Pelican of the Wilderness
Door to Remain
Letter to Quinn from Provincetown
Northern Gannet
Notes
Acknowledgments