After the point of no return

After the point of no return

A brief history

The ends of my fingers

The fun house

Convivium

Driving

In the Congregational basement

Kissing cousins

A footnote to the history of the New York Central Railroad

My father's body

My lost uncles

Onstage

Walking along the beach with a five year old

Pleasant dreams

For my daughters during their first penumbrial eclipse

Playground

The boy who ran away from me

A letter to an old poet

How to live

Writing for money

That night in London

The hazards of serenading

Preaching to the choir

Breakfast with salesmen before the poetry reading

On being asked once more what a poem is

Being a model

On the persistence of metaphor

Long overdue praise for her

Orpheus practicing

Listening

Signing

Never let your characters sit down

At the farewell performance of Henry Ellsworth Robinson, the magician known as Ching Ling Soo

Before the poetry reading

Striking the set

Aristotle comes to a conclusion

Going back to the sea

Ashes

By a pond

By a creek

The cherry tree

In a greenhouse

Rain dance in a rain forest

Dust devil

Your tree

Meeting a stranger

Panic

Among brambles

Foxhole

Photographing snakes

What the marine biologist told me

Thoreau and the mud turtle

Thoreau and the loose cow

Thoreau and the lightning

The fly

At the ostrich farm

Pig dance

The last good hour of a worker bee

The dead

This is only a test

Marksmanship

Under fire

At dawn on the fifth of July

Fighting the blizzard

Rooming with Jesus

Running the four hundred meters

Life class

Overheard at dinner in the home of a recent widow

The minutes of the last meeting

A preface to the history of chairs

By the empty stone

Pounding swords into ploughshares

The salute

Instructions for the caretaker

On the road

A zodiac for the twenty-second century

The bitter end

Lost in thought on an extension ladder

Off balance

The first law of thermodynamics

The general theory

Falling into place

Helping the home patient fall asleep

A cold call

In memory of his memory

Coolness under fire

Our bodies

For their second childhood

In the nursing home

The name

A beginner's guide to death.