1. MORE THAN HALFWAY
Special Orders
Cotton Candy
Branch Library
Playing the Odds
My Father's Track-and-Field Medal, 1932
Cold Calls
Second-Story Warehouse
The Swimmers
The Chardin Exhibition
On the Rhine
Kraków, 6 A.M. 17
Elegy for the Jewish Villages
Soutine: A Show of Still Lifes
The Minimalist Museum
Self-portrait
A Few Encounters with My Face
Man Without a Face
To My Shadow
More Than Halfway
A Partial History of My Stupidity
2. TO THE CLEARING
Late March
Green Night
To D.B.
Bounty
To Houston
Eighteen Steps
Charades
Boy with a Headset
Green Figs
The Sweetness
To Lethargy
Gnostic Gospels
A New Theology
Happiness Writes White
I Wish I Could Paint You
To the Subway
As I Walked Home from the Hospital
Green Couch
A Night in September
After a Long Insomniac Night
Acknowledgments