Contents
Blessing the House
1
Faith
God’s Stopwatch
I Slept with the Singing Nun
Spy Club
Blue Donuts
Birch Bark
Dust Mop
My Mother’s See-Through Blouse
Spring Sap
Polish-American Night, Tiger Stadium
Sin Sandwich
“Dear . . .”
How
What I Did
March
2
The Hoagie Scam
Night Light
Day of the Two Bodies
Running
Three Bridges, Pittsburgh
The day after
Hold-up at the Uni-Mart, 98 Degrees
Where else can you go
Hunger
Skull and Crossbones
Coming Home from the Hospital After My Son’s Birth
The Stigmata
Spell
3
Sleeping on Trains, Sleeping on Boats
A Day of Sainthood
Silk
Poison, Torre Gentile
Fennel
Cemetery, Torre Gentile
The Sleeper Hold
Banking the Fire
Faith
Acknowledgments