Contents
Author's Note
One
Mortality
Halfway Down the Block, Your Father
Bravery Toasts
It
Of Dust on a White Counter
Elegy for Woolah
Marie
On the Way to the Paper Shop
Down the Hall, a Bell
Serenade
When You Live under the Mountain
The Old Poet
Two
The Interpreters
In Tide Pools
In the Stark Lands
Two for Django
Three Poems Written in Pencil on Hotel Notepaper
Thirteen Music Boxes
Reflections
Lotuses
The Oklawaha Is a Braided River
Oklawaha, Divided
Three
Useless
A Warm Day
Furnitures in a Room
Variations on "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"
or Something Like That
The Art Critic Tours the Exhibit
Three Prominent People
The Fruit Detective
Robert and Christopher up in a Tree
Ste. Françoise des Croissants
The Love Song of Frances Jane
Some Reflections on Theatre
Mistakes
Message Received in the Engine Room
Four
Altar
The Wig-Dusting Hole
An Incident Involving Timothy Crowther, Town Clerk of Skipton, 1761
Below High Bradley
Destiny
Dead Stars
Bracken
The Gamekeeper
The Benchmark
The Night after the Total Eclipse
Across the Tops
The Hedgehog
The Swan
The Masons
Constellated
The End of Our Lives Is at Hand!
Acknowledgments