Contents
Introduction
Sixty-One
Who Is Not a Child
Eliseo’s Cabin, Taos Pueblo
Reaching Eighty
Bamboo
Unwise Purchases
The Sixth Age
Pairs
Wait-Time Is Currently about Twelve Minutes
Waking
Retirement Matters
At Seventy-Five
In the Pinecrest Rest Home
Some Little Happiness
The Inspector of Snowstorms
God and Goddess
climbing
A Visitation
To the Woman Who Left Her Old Age to Someone Older than She Will Ever Be
Rest Cure
On His Early Retirement
Flu Clinic at the Retirement Center
The Carpenter’s Song
Brooding over the Body
Heading towards Forty
No Clomping Straightforward Narrative
The Orchid Flower
Retirement
The Work Place
Last Minute Instructions
Assorted Hobbies
Ham and the Moon
Parents’ Pantoum
Office
Applesauce
One by One
Women and Horses
Living Alone (III)
The Physicist’s Warning
All Dressed Up
Almost Eighty
Bureaucrat Tells How
Old Guys
Walking Out
Father of the Bride
Deadwood
On Coming to Nothing
The Crossing
Marriage
Retirement
Open House
Anna Bachtle
Fifty
Here
After the Ultrasound
Drawing for Absolute Beginners
Retired
The Neurology Professor Retires
The Cold
Comfort Zone
Letter of Transmittal
The South Berkeley Branch Closes
Luke Like Life
The Conversation of Old Husbands
Report from the Stratosphere
Barre Exercises
You Reading This, Be Ready
This Was a Wonderful Night
Now I’m Retired, I Have Time
Wednesday, the Hole
Aunt Eudora’s Harlequin Romance
A Three-Year-Old Visits
Blessings
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Index to Titles