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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Prologue
Who Would Believe
Part One: Lie Love Easy
Lie Love Easy
Aerie and High
Shared Heat
Woodsmoke and Perfume
To Make a Baby
An Engineering Problem
The Bath
After She Sleeps
Lunch-making
Saturday Night
Oh God, How Deep
They Will Have to Understand
Here, Take This Poem
Even as the Passion Cools
The Hand of God
Part Two: She Who Thinks Like a Fish Thinks
Self-Portrait: Newborn Father and Son
She Who Thinks Like a Fish Thinks
Learning to Speak Max
If We Were Bears
Singing the Babies to Sleep
Don’t Leave Albert Einstein with the Kids!
Monster at the Breakfast Table
When You Are Ready, Climb
Strawberries
Angel at Eighth-Grade Graduation
If You Become a Monk
To a Young Daughter
To My Daughter at Fourteen in the Aftermath of the First Full Moon
Driving Lesson: To My Son at Sixteen
Chores
Acres of Diamonds
Prayer
For a Rescued Daughter, an Artist, Coming Up for Air through Water
Backscratch Boy
A Wild Wood
Troubadour Song
Morning of the Wedding
Midnight Call
Christmas Prayer, Santa Fe, December 25, 1993
On a Youngest Daughter’s Acceptance at the College of Her Choice
On Course
Once in the Sixties
Part Three: And Still She Blooms
In Her Garden, She
Two Knives
Fall Colors
Departure
Expedition Alone
Skin Like Botticelli’s Venus
My Wife Sleeping as I Drive
And Still She Blooms
At the Temple of Aphrodite
Swimming in the Sea of Time
New New Mexico Woman
You Know What I Know
The Poet Visits His Son, a Concert Promoter, and Attends a Michael Franti Concert
Dancing at Winter Solstice
Wild Swans Near Gladstone
Before the Grandchildren Arrive
Watching Gus Draw
End of Summer
A Mirror in Rome
Here Is My Promise to You, or Marco Polo Leaves the Kitchen for the Provinces
When I Am Eighty
Epilogue
Wedding Poem
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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