Contents
I
The Problem of Magnification
Living in the Barn
The Hand-Carved Chairs
The Accident
Bodies We Will Never Know
The Lover of Fruit Trees
My Father's Heart
In Pompano Beach, Florida
Osteoporosis
Philadelphia,1955
The Return
Like Breath at Your Ear
The Children's Concert
The Compassionate Friend
Sadness in Spring
Selective Memory
II
The Round Barn
Tantric Pictures
The Children of Siran Darda
The Taj Express
On Vashon
Good Boy
Riding Lesson
Still Life
Incarnate
Letter from Your Father
The First Summer of the Word Processor
Prelude
Floating Farm
Susan Longmire: The 1891 Ascent of Mt. Rainier
Hiking Gold Hill Ridge
The Story I Like to Tell
III
Jazz Festival, France
Giacometti's Dog
Conversations in July
Chagall
Matisse
The White Place
Decoupage
A Marriage
Tether
Fable
Rome of the Imagination
Grief
Built on Water
The Bath
Birch Trees
The Subject of Our Lives