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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Prologue: The Trick
I. GOOD NIGHT
“Every night when we were small . . .”
No Gift
“Would it make you sad?”
Broken Top
“I never will marry”
Scuppers
“To thine own self”
“Give me your notebook”
Résumé
Bus Tag
“You can’t buy this song”
“Do you ever hunt with a pistol?”
Woman RCMP
The Good Time
II. GOD BLESS YOU
Poems for Grubia
Our Sky
Lost Words
Cheating Death
“Come on in”
The Indian Blanket
The Smartest Pet
The Lie
Rope in the River
Treasure Thief
Binoculars
Doctor Bret
We’re Pals
The Wanderer
Wizard Falls
Two Birds with One Stone
Strawberry Fields
Four
Murder Bridge
Buying Frijoles
Shooting My Brother
Smoking Leaves
Ball of Fire
Uncle Miley
Rounds
Proud of Her Prow
Les Misérables
Sweet Little Gun
1909-s
Trick or Treat for UNICEF
Calculus
Crevasse
Ordeal
Super Duper
Reverend Jim
Darkness
“Did the world thank Uncle Bret?”
Our Road
“You said you would be home”
III. HAVE SWEET DREAMS
A Cornfield in Iowa
The Water Tower
Kester
Puritan Pleasures
The Road to Paris
One of the Silences
College
Lottery Night
Dodgin’ the Draft
Carnaby Street
The Sweetbriar
Child of Luck
“I’ve asked my nephew”
A Week of Honey
Thirteen Cemeteries
Night Vigil
Dusk at Blitzen
“How about you, Mr. Stafford?”
The Wisdom of Insecurity
“I have your brother”
Twiggy at Big Camas
Folding the Tent
“You can’t eat beauty”
IV. SEE YOU TOMORROW
Path to the Sun
Half a Good Thing
White Alice
Paris Rain
Talking Recklessly
Kuleana
Résumé of Failures
The Next Life
“What do you want?”
Crying Clothes
“It doesn’t matter where you live”
Afterword: What Can We Trust But Memory?
Acknowledgments
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