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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Contents
Dedication
I
A woman invented fire
Stanzas: Old Age and the Conventions of Retirement Have Driven My Friends from the Work They Love
One day when I was a child
Drowning (I)
Drowning (II)
Life
Right Now
A Poem about Storytelling
A Warning
Alive
At the Battery
An Arboreal Mystery
20th Street Spring
note to grandparents
psalm
Mulberry Street
War
For Danny
The Nature of This City
On the Fourth Floor
Winter Afternoon
Middle-Age Poem
Bob Visits Friends
On Mother’s Day
Housing
Having Arrived by Bike at Battery Park
II
Whistlers
For George (I)
For George (II)
Certain Days
One Day
The Five-Day Week
Some Days
Vengeance
Family
Letter
My Mother: 33 Years Later
On the Bank Street Pier
Gift
No Love
Words
Quarrel
Question
Old Age Porch
Fund Appeal
For My Friend Who Planted a Tree for His Daughter Jane
Responsibility
III / Thetford Poems
Fear
Families
Goldenrod
What is this whiteness on the field?
When the wild strawberry leaves turn
Then
In Deepest Summer
Saint-John’s-wort!
A bee!
An ant!
False strawberry is
September
The Choir Singing
Leaves Apples
Connections: Vermont Vietnam (I)
Connections: Vermont Vietnam (II)
IV
Song Stanzas of Private Luck
Some Nearly Songs
The Old Dog’s Song
34th Street Song
The Sad Children’s Song
Traveler
Speaker and Speaker
Quarrel
Autumn
South Window
My Father at 85
My Father at 89
One Day I Decided
In Aix
On the Ramblas A Tree A Girl
Oh
In France
I Gave Away That Kid
Subway Station
Bridges
In Hanoi 1969
Two Villages
That Country
Street Corner Dialogue
Illegal Aliens
In San Salvador (I)
In San Salvador (II)
For Mike and Jeannie: Resisters Fifteen Years Later
Learning from Barbara Deming
Happiness
Definition
Age
Love
Time
The Women’s Prison: El Salvador The Ballad of Visiting Day
The Dance in Jinotega
People in My Family
In the Bus
V
House: Some Instructions
VI / Begin Again
The Immigrant Story
Translation
Signs
The Woman Says
Faces
It’s True
Tenth Grade
The Boy His Mother
Suppertime
How to Tell a Story (My Method) (Most of the Time)
The Word Thrum
My Father Said
He Wanders
Four Short Pieces
The Poet’s Occasional Alternative
One of the Softer Sorrows of Age
When this old body
When I Was Asked How I Could Leave Vermont in the Middle of October
Weather
In Montpelier, Vermont
Beef
NOW
Is There a Difference Between Men and Women
Reading the Newspapers at the Village Store
The Desert Wasn’t Loved Enough said Reich
What If (This Week)
This Life
Sometimes
Leaflet
I See My Friend Everywhere
A Letter
For Jan
Luck
On the Deck
For My Daughter
Therefore
In This Dream
Hand-Me-Downs
Here
Walking in the Woods
Also by Grace Paley
About the Author
Copyright
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