Cover
Contents
Part I
Real Life, Dear Voyeur, Real Life
Mushroom on the Lawn
Qu’est-ce qu’il y a?
They Are Widening the Road
Buttons
My Job as a Child
Improvisation or The Bluebird of Happiness
Deleted Poem
A Tan Dog Standing
Why Do Men Spit?
The Applicant’s Wife’s Renderingof the Facility Tour
Method
Squall Line Stalling in a Memory of Rain
Rundown Ride
Eclipse on the Day of the Field Trip
An Errand
At Pauline’s
Part II
Law
It is unconquerable; it has
Summer Shower
Re-entry
Advent
Dialectic and Infusion
27 October. Dreary.
Passage Through
The Meeting
Away
The Clacklet
The Prints from Vacation Are Back
Daylight
Final Moments, Summer School
Swissed
Trail
Part III
Accord
The Vacuum
A Mile In
McCall’s 8041
In the Garden of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen
Of
Early Cinematography
But All Energy Does Go Somewhere
Indoor Tundra
In Which I Am Taken for a Ride
My Lifelong Relationship with God
My Neighbor’s Maple
Monday
Now
Ocean
Notes
Acknowledgments