Contents
I
Enter Mecca
II
Not
The Rented Car
Olive
Happy Hour
The Hotel Where My Family Used to Stay
Once Upon a Time I Had a White Comb
I Open Your Death Like a Book
Rose Red
Bread
Blue Plate
III
Notes from a Lecture on Rilke ’s Requiems
IV
16 Hours in Bradford, Pennsylvania
V
In the Gardens of the Alcazar
Magdalena at the Prado
What Max, Age Two, Remembers about Spain
La Festividad de los Tres Reyes
Florida
The Steeplejack
3 Reflections God Might See in My Living-Room Window
Clocks
When the dead come back
Pump
Small Treatise on the Usefulness of Language
August in My Neighbor’s Garden
I Dream My Children Are Giving Me a Final Exam
VI
The Great Molasses Flood