Contents
I won’t write any more
The Facts
Images Dimming
Richard
Write?
What’s happening to me?
A Young Man: Jean
Beugras, alas . . .
Grabbing the first husband . . .
The child wanted from him
Without a care
Time to form a couple
A couple
The Summer of the Elder Tree––I
You did the same thing
The dream is shattered
You didn’t explain anything to us
“. . . see you try it”
And no lies
Fresnes Hospital
. . . her tears only at night
Reunion
Disaster
Silences
You’re just like your mother
A certain kind of work
The game of resemblances
Transference?
Handkerchief at a train window
December 20, 1996
His son
She who left
Ruins
The summer of the Elder Tree—II
Key West, March 22, 2002
Fear of what?
Not a barrel of laughs
Aging body, empty husk
A different woman
I who’d lost him
Lost
Summer’s end