Contents
A Friendly Town
Burying My Mother
A Veteran of the War Speaks of the Enemy
Snow Comes to Pittsburg, Kansas
Edge of America
Small Town at Dusk
A Stand of Pines
Farm Wife
How We Live
In the Coffee Shops
The Dress
Farewell, Dusky Seaside
Item, Page Three
The Visiting Assistant Professor on the First Day Addresses Another Class in Yet Anotehr Town
I'll Be Seeing You
At the Marriott
On Catalpa Street
Buying a House
Homeplace
Driving Kansas
Rooms
Working Late in My Studio on the Second Story
Neighborhood
Dead Child
Most of the Time
A Bottomlands Farmer Suffers a Sea Change
Fields
Four P.M.
Marbles
His Funeral
Surviving in Kansas
Story
Talking with You Long Distance
Packing
The Day
Children's Children
Once in Winter
The Stump
In the Home of the Famous Dead
Her Last Trick
The First Warm Day
Remodeling
Growing Up on the Bayou de Glaises
Salesman
Humanities 113
A Woman of Substance
Catalpa
Blessing
Upon Hearing about the Suicide of the Daughter of Friends
To Her
Night Flight, Delta #481
They Agree to Call It Off but Then
Dropping a Line