CONTENTS

I

Entering History

Vacation

Portrait of My Husband Reading Henry James

Day’s End on Eel Pond

Venasque

Facing Eternity

Love & Marriage

The Big Fish Story

II

LINES composed at Beaufort, South Carolina, a few
miles above Parris Island

On the Uses of Paper for Locating and Discharging Guilt

Starting Over After Long Estrangement

Seeing Mozart’s Piano Quartet in E-flat Major
in the Old Whaling Church, Edgartown

Anniversary

III

The Art of Passing for Them

A Poem for Older People

IV

Jacob and Esau with Sister

Welts

Family

Born Again

Watching the Sun Set in the East

V

Heaven

Cadillac

The Way it Goes

The Magic Dragon Missing His Mate

Gate 35

No More

After Life, This

Last Word

VI

Reading the Declaration of Independence on
the 4th of July

Tapping Survival

The GWB in the Rain

High Ground

Friday, the 13th

Watercolors with Sound Effects

Listening to the Radio

In Bed with an Old Man

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