Contents
One
Veronica Lake
Collecting Myself
The Ladders
Nocturnal Repertory
Forgetting
First Loves
Hard and Soft
What the Poets Never Write about Love
The German Class
Namesake
A Dress Laments
A Bad Rap
The Two Supers
Renée Returned
Trans
Stitching Skin
Two (For Beverly)
Reduced
No Way Out but Through
Dayyenu
Till You Walk in Her Shoes
Mist
On Horseback
Things I Wish I’d Asked My Big Sister
Three
Cordelia
Words
Advice to Modern Spies
Infinity Everywhere
Young Blood
Enlightenment?
Pope Says Internet Is Gift from God
Error
Something Is Wrong
Hourglass
Thesaurus
True, Pleasant, and Necessary
Hearing Chamber Music
We Pre-Boomers
Four
Losing Touch
The Coat
Taking Out the Garbage
Yiddish
The Grandfather
Cookies Foretell a Refreshing Change
Miss Darlene’s Dancing School
Surprise
Pretty Maids All in a Row
The Doctor and His Dog
How the Mighty Have Fallen
Professor Donato
Leaving
So They Are Not Alone
Notes
Acknowledgments