Contents
Bottom of the ocean
Small purchase
The semantics of flowers on Memorial Day
Dropping the euphemism
Calling him back from layoff
My life with a gardener
An old story
The documentary art
Becoming bird
Another awkward stage of convalescence
The bald truth
After working sixty hours again for what reason
Oath to my former life
Spirit ditty of no fax-line dial tone
Insomnia diary
Go Greyhound
Finally opening the anthology to Kunitz
Free-floating anxiety sounds like a pretty balloon
Tuesday’s walk
1935
American Studies
Sur Coast diary
Capital crime
Now and then I am direct
Growing at the speed of fashion
Bars poetica
Translator’s note
Echo
Mortal shower
Meteor shower
Building a painting a home
Commission by attrition
Goodbye in the shape of a knot
The edge
Radical neck
It’s not so much the heat as the stupidity
Cure for the common cold
Cutting edge
Truth about love
Shopping at the ocean
Acknowledgments