Contents
The Lord God Returns
Decalogue: Thin Ice
The Soul Bone
Decalogue: What If
Soledad
Decalogue: Rooms
I Got a Mind to Ramble
Decalogue: Husbands and Wives
Custody
In America
After His Retirement, LBJ Visits Greenville
“The Strange Case of the Virgin Lidwina”
A Short History of Women in the Nineteenth Century
Daily Life
If Grief Were a Bird
My Father Looks Down on Me
Benediction
Decalogue: Fathers and Daughters
Palace Theater
Dotage
Decalogue: Mothers and Daughters
The Old Testament
Decalogue: Mothers and Sons
The Magic Hour
Decalogue: Ethics
Horoscope
Without Number
Decalogue: Chance
My Mother Comes Back to Me
Decalogue: Siblings
Gratification
Elegy for My Pug Cosmo
Acknowledgments
Notes