Contents
I Love You More than All the Windows in New York City
My Eden Story
Aubade
Ode to a Serrated Knife
April in the First 100 Days
How Bad Is It?
Country Mice, during the Order to Separate Families, 2018
Food Truck Manifesto
I Had Just Hung Up from Talking to You
My Lovely Garonne
The Storm-Struck Tree
Elegy for a Tree
Green Permanent
For a Traveler
Day after Memorial Day
On Good Fortune
Calling
Twenty-Two Years Later
Missing You
Ode to a Potato Masher
When You First Met Me
Years Since We have Traveled
The First Time
As So Often Happens
Days I Delighted in Everything
Dawning
A History of Our Possessions
On the Bus Someday
Metaphor
Before the Internet
Aardvark
Porcupine
Ode to a Stovetop Espresso Maker
Florence Nightingale
Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium at the Morgan Library
To Bill Zavatsky
I couldn’t seem to take to the young people
Riga Aubade, May
A Nearly Perfect Morning
The Trees Having Tea above Me
Photo from the Half-Year in Kobe
Everything Must Go
Route 684, Southbound Rest Stop
Just As, Just So
Letter to Jed from Niebla
NYC Mayor Bloomberg Bans Smoking Indoors, 2003
A Day Here
I Was Waiting for You outside the Post Office
Ode to Polish Forests
After All This Time
Sky inside Brooklyn
I Took Out the Part
Acknowledgments