| Fallings from us, vanishings | p. 3 |
| The city | p. 5 |
| The chair | p. 8 |
| Mr. Brown | p. 11 |
| The muse of distance | p. 13 |
| Small college : all male : early 1960s | p. 29 |
| From an airplane | p. 31 |
| The light's reading | p. 33 |
| East Arlington | p. 36 |
| Sandy | p. 38 |
| Obsession | p. 41 |
| The prayer of the Cathars | p. 42 |
| Art Roman | p. 45 |
| Recitation for the dismantling of a hydrogen bomb | p. 47 |
| Epilogue | p. 53 |
| Love and the soul | p. 61 |
| Requited love | p. 64 |
| Fragments : traveling in marriage | p. 76 |
| Domestic architecture | p. 78 |
| Wide-angle shot : return to Snowy River | p. 79 |
| Deb's dream about Pavese | p. 80 |
| Your forest-moonlight picture | p. 82 |
| Toward the new year | p. 83 |
| The ambivalent man | p. 85 |
| Forest Street | p. 89 |
| Rilke's argument with Don Giovanni | p. 91 |
| The author reconsiders | p. 93 |
| Unanticipated mirrors | p. 95 |
| Enthusiasm | p. 99 |
| Highway restaurant | p. 100 |
| For my daughter, leaving | p. 102 |
| Tidepools | p. 104 |
| A childhood around 1950 | p. 111 |
| Dreams of sacrifice | p. 112 |
| Paint it black | p. 115 |
| Listening to Leonard Cohen | p. 118 |
| After the election, 1984 | p. 121 |
| Speakers from the ice | p. 122 |
| La Pastorela | p. 126 |
| Mansard dreams | p. 131 |
| Linda does my horoscope | p. 134 |
| Puccini dying | p. 138 |
| In Paradiso, speriamo bene | p. 140 |
| Caitlin : a biography | p. 143 |
| Dinosaurs | p. 145 |
| After "Death of a porn queen" : traveling the Great Basin | p. 148 |
| Red cloud | p. 149 |
| Friends who have failed | p. 157 |
| For Robinson Jeffers | p. 158 |
| House-moving from Tournon to Besancon | p. 160 |
| A progress of the soul | p. 165 |
| For my grandfather | p. 168 |
| Trois Gymnopedies | p. 169 |
| If, on your first love's wedding day | p. 175 |
| Dream without end | p. 176 |
| Bernini's Proserpine | p. 183 |
| Aubade, reconstructed in tranquility | p. 189 |
| C., again | p. 190 |
| Spring trains | p. 193 |
| Customs of the Barbarians | p. 194 |
| Last autumn in Charlottesville | p. 197 |
| Heaven | p. 199 |
| Childless couple | p. 201 |
| Van Gogh's asylum | p. 203 |
| Old toys come back | p. 205 |
| Theory of evil | p. 209 |
| Adultery | p. 211 |
| The factory | p. 213 |
| Where the hills come down like a lion's paw on summer | p. 214 |
| The cure of longing | p. 216 |
| Martin Sloan | p. 218 |
| The fever of Brother Barnabas | p. 220 |
| A place | p. 222 |
| Letter to a dead poet | p. 223 |
| At the Villa Serbelloni : 1998 | p. 225 |
| MLA notes (1988) | p. 227 |
| MLA notes II (1998) | p. 229 |
| The cost | p. 231 |
| Moving back to Charlottesville | p. 232 |
| Villanelle : for Anne | p. 233 |
| Autumn reparations | p. 234 |
| The pattern more complicated | p. 235 |
| Fantasia on some sentences from Combray | p. 240 |
| Primrose Hill | p. 242 |
| Nostos | p. 244 |
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