Contents
TITLE PAGE
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DEDICATION
ECHOES
Across the Creek Is the Other Side of the River
Time and the Centipedes of Night
Cake Walk
Waterfalls
The Childhood of St. Thomas
Everything Passes, but Is It Time?
Homage to Samuel Beckett
Crystal Declension
Grace II
Heaven’s Eel
“I’m Going to Take a Trip in That Old Gospel Ship”
Ancient of Days
Next-to-Last Gasp
Sentences II
Natura Morta
Shadow and Smoke
Road Warriors
“Just a Closer Walk with Thee”
History Is a Burning Chariot
Long Ago and Far Away
“Things Have Ends and Beginnings”
Little Elegy for an Old Friend
END PAPERS
The Last Word
“I’ve Been Sitting Here Thinking Back Over My Life…”
“What Becomes of the Brokenhearted…”
“My Old Clinch Mountain Home”
Toadstools
Dude
Shadow Play
Fortune Cookie
Pack Rats
Life Lines
Four Dog Nights
October, Mon Amour
“L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle”
Ducks
Lullaby
The Children of the Plain
Plain Song
Whatever Happened to Al Lee?
“So Long, It’s Been Good to Know You”
APOCRYPHA
Detour
Drift Away
“Well, Roll On, Buddy, Don’t You Roll Too Slow”
Chinoiserie II
Chinoiserie III
Chinoiserie IV
“Remember Me When the Candlelight Is Gleaming”
Lost Highways
Solo Joe Revisited
Double-Dealing
Chinoiserie V
Chinoiserie VI
Another Night in the Purcells
Translations from a Forgotten Tongue
NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ALSO BY CHARLES WRIGHT
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