Contents

I

Canadian Hemlock

Bottle of Wine

Primitive

Guest List

Another Earth Day

Winter Gift

From the Trustees of Forest Lawn

Down Here

II

Stoplight

A Hat

In Traffic

Love and Duty

Second Best

A Key

Too Bad

The Right Time

Driving to Syracuse

III

First Mate

We

New Light Tabernacle

Beyond Will

Thought Experiment

Dependence Day

Three Pages

Children’s Day

IV

Rare Mood

A Daughter of the Puritans

Questions for Lazarus

Former Lives

Nobody Knows

Palmyra

The Fall of Man

At Chartres

V

Art and Life

Simon Pell

The Muse of Music

Unanswered Letter

Snowplow Driver

War and Peace

Violin

For Tony Hoagland

VI

A Romance

Embodied

The Night before Halloween

One Thing Is Needful

A Journey

Sunday with Trees

Breath