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Preface	p. ix
Home Ground
Invention	p. 2
Dearest	p. 3
A Son	p. 3
Natural Bridge	p. 4
Mr. Jones	p. 5
Meditation	p. 6
While I'm Shaving	p. 7
Farewell	p. 8
So Much for Magic	p. 9
Stages	p. 10
Interrupted	p. 12
At a Bank Teller's Window	p. 13
Candy	p. 14
Returning Alone	p. 15
Child Perennial	p. 15
Homily while losing at Hearts	p. 16
Capillary Splendor	p. 17
Man in a Tub	p. 18
Dream	p. 19
Respite	p. 20
Descent	p. 21
A Father's Dream	p. 22
The Roses	p. 23
Swimming Laps in August	p. 24
Sorting	p. 25
Ethel	p. 26
NSB	p. 27
Reverie	p. 28
Mirror, mirror	p. 30
Hope	p. 31
December Fourteenth	p. 32
Knowledge	p. 36
Sixty-four Years Later	p. 37
Toward an End	p. 38
Spring Rain on North Broadway	p. 39
Afield
High Schoolers in Love	p. 42
Counter Vows	p. 43
Lieutenant Gordon	p. 44
Townsman's Wake	p. 45
Conversion	p. 46
Odd Moments	p. 47
Sunday in the Thirties	p. 48
Margaret Mee	p. 49
Elegy	p. 50
Renee	p. 52
William Stafford	p. 53
Lockerbie	p. 54
At Waterloo Village	p. 55
Eros
On Hearing Erotic Poet Read	p. 58
Altar Call	p. 59
Cameo	p. 60
Dark Haired Girl	p. 61
Mona Lisa	p. 62
Girl	p. 64
Pastoral	p. 65
Over a lost fountain pen	p. 66
Unspoken	p. 68
Happily ever after	p. 69
Orbit
Man the Measure	p. 72
Stars over Puerto Rico	p. 73
Pageant	p. 73
Veiling	p. 73
Flying Over the Cumberland Mountains	p. 74
The Joy of Flying	p. 74
Riverside Church Tower	p. 75
Electronics Rex	p. 76
An Easter Hymn	p. 77
Peniel	p. 78
Heritage	p. 80
Theology in the making	p. 82
Vox Humana	p. 84
Existence	p. 85
Advent	p. 86
Index by Title	p. 87
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