| Acknowledgments | p. 15 |
| A Favor of Love | p. 19 |
| A Love Koan | p. 21 |
| The Land of the Shi | p. 22 |
| Lexington Avenue Musedog | p. 23 |
| Ash Wednesday, Hurrying Eastward | p. 25 |
| Nude at a Dressing Table | p. 27 |
| Repair | p. 28 |
| The Parsley Ship | p. 30 |
| The Umbrella | p. 31 |
| Refusal | p. 33 |
| Tan Oval Head Leaning Toward Tiny Brown Oval Shell | p. 34 |
| Let Me Manage Something Simple | p. 36 |
| The Land of Tears | p. 38 |
| Couple Sharing a Peach | p. 39 |
| Diary of Our Day in Painting Titles | p. 40 |
| Conversation | p. 43 |
| The Soul House | p. 44 |
| Breakfast with Cats | p. 45 |
| A Kind of Parlance | p. 49 |
| Anno Domini | p. 53 |
| Nightwake | p. 54 |
| Walking is Almost Falling | p. 56 |
| The Lawns of June | p. 57 |
| The Distance Up Close | p. 61 |
| The Lull | p. 62 |
| Just About Asleep Together | p. 63 |
| Old Roadside Resorts | p. 64 |
| Those Paperweights with Snow Inside | p. 65 |
| Where is Home? | p. 66 |
| Our Room | p. 67 |
| Loneliness | p. 68 |
| She Lays | p. 69 |
| The Shoulders of Women | p. 70 |
| The Land of Veils | p. 71 |
| North of the Eyes | p. 72 |
| Two Cups on the Table | p. 73 |
| Squirrel Disappears | p. 74 |
| Things to Do | p. 75 |
| Smell | p. 76 |
| Petting and Being a Pet | p. 77 |
| Waking to the Chatter of the Child Next Door | p. 78 |
| A Bed for a Woman | p. 79 |
| And You Were a Baby Girl | p. 80 |
| Islands in Our Eyes | p. 81 |
| So, When I Swim to the Shore | p. 82 |
| Cut Flower | p. 83 |
| Afraid | p. 84 |
| A Face Regresses | p. 85 |
| Sky Inside | p. 86 |
| Sweet Time | p. 87 |
| The Veil of If | p. 88 |
| Mental France | p. 89 |
| Next Afternoon | p. 90 |
| Cutting Tall Grass | p. 91 |
| A Garden | p. 92 |
| A Gesture | p. 93 |
| The Burnt Lawn | p. 94 |
| Nervous Jabbering | p. 95 |
| Among Tall Buildings | p. 96 |
| Aubade | p. 97 |
| Berries Which are Berries | p. 98 |
| The Little Girls | p. 99 |
| The Web of Histories | p. 100 |
| My Vast Presumption | p. 101 |
| Stumble | p. 102 |
| Novembers | p. 103 |
| This Time | p. 104 |
| Desire | p. 105 |
| World We Sleep In | p. 106 |
| Forsythia Below Clouds | p. 107 |
| The Breach of Or | p. 108 |
| How I Come to You | p. 111 |
| The Valley of the Monsters | p. 112 |
| Buffalo | p. 114 |
| Commands of Love | p. 115 |
| Say You Love Me | p. 116 |
| Blank Paper | p. 118 |
| Dream Come True | p. 119 |
| Unexpected Freedom | p. 120 |
| Putting a Burden Down | p. 121 |
| That Leaf | p. 122 |
| Blue and Huge | p. 123 |
| The Spell | p. 125 |
| A Hot Day in Agrigento | p. 126 |
| The Surge | p. 128 |
| Parrots of the World | p. 129 |
| Food for Talk | p. 132 |
| Joy | p. 133 |
| My God, Why are You Crying? | p. 135 |
| Merely by Wilderness | p. 136 |
| Chriseaster | p. 137 |
| On the Street | p. 139 |
| The Ghost | p. 140 |
| Things can be Named to Death | p. 142 |
| A Simple Purchase | p. 143 |
| How I Had to Act | p. 146 |
| Anger Sweetened | p. 148 |
| Feeling Sorry for Yourself | p. 149 |
| Throwing Out Old Clothes | p. 150 |
| Friendship with Men | p. 151 |
| Reunion | p. 152 |
| Instead of Her Own | p. 153 |
| Friends | p. 154 |
| The Worm | p. 155 |
| I Must Have Learned this Somewhere | p. 157 |
| Art Buzzards | p. 158 |
| Good Girl | p. 160 |
| Don't Think Governments End the World | p. 161 |
| Choice | p. 163 |
| When I Love You | p. 164 |
| One Place | p. 165 |
| Altruism | p. 166 |
| Dear Heart | p. 167 |
| The Smell of a God | p. 168 |
| Typing to Evangelize a Cut Flower | p. 169 |
| Dear Arm | p. 170 |
| There Must Be | p. 171 |
| The Wheel | p. 177 |
| So What If I am in Love | p. 178 |
| My College Sex Group | p. 180 |
| Have You Ever Faked an Orgasm? | p. 181 |
| Panties and the Buddha | p. 182 |
| The Return | p. 183 |
| Love Wall | p. 184 |
| Waking Up | p. 185 |
| The Scare | p. 186 |
| Marathon Song | p. 187 |
| The Purr | p. 188 |
| Lullaby | p. 189 |
| Blush Blessing | p. 190 |
| Little Miracle | p. 191 |
| The Spider Heart | p. 195 |
| Seeing a Basket of Lobelia the Color of a Bathrobe | p. 197 |
| The Rule | p. 199 |
| The Job | p. 200 |
| Yes | p. 201 |
| No | p. 202 |
| Dogged Persistence | p. 203 |
| The Fare | p. 204 |
| Miss, Miss, are You Awake? | p. 206 |
| Unseen | p. 209 |
| Floral Conversation | p. 210 |
| I Consider the Possibility | p. 211 |
| Vogue Vista | p. 212 |
| Portrayal | p. 213 |
| Love Beat | p. 214 |
| The Hunt | p. 215 |
| The Explanation | p. 216 |
| Baubles after Bombs | p. 217 |
| Religious Instruction | p. 221 |
| In a Long Line of Horses | p. 223 |
| Subway Vespers | p. 224 |
| Simple | p. 226 |
| Forgiveness | p. 227 |
| Cancelled Elegy | p. 228 |
| Happy Birthday | p. 229 |
| Upbringing | p. 230 |
| Good-Bye Hello in the East Village | p. 232 |
| Matins | p. 234 |
| Prairie Prayer | p. 235 |
| Life Study | p. 236 |
| Why I am not a Buddhist | p. 237 |
| Index of Titles | p. 239 |
| Index of First Lines | p. 245 |
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