Contents
Twenty-three windows
Twins
Absolution
Grooming
Reparations
Her my body
The busy days of my nights
A poem with a poem in its belly
Team effort
Elsewhere
The collector
Waiting for my foot to ring
Duh
Singe
War story
Twenty-eight fathers
Odyssey
My career as a director
My iron age
My new neighbor
My faith-based initiative
Happy anniversary
A letter: the Genesis poem
Twenty-one rivers
In Michael Robins’s class minus one
Two living wills
ROTC
Switching to deer time
Solstice: voyeur
Documenting a decision
Thirty-three skies
Angels of mercy
Failures in meditation
The new math
Physical
A theory of art as respiration
Thirty-two dreams
The personal touch
My last factory job
Beasts
Green on the day
Full flight
Peoria
Theoretical love
The active reader
Spam leaves an aftertaste
My ever after
Acknowledgments