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vii Acknowledgments ix I On the Mooring 3 A Memoir 4 Listening to Keats 5 Pavane 7 Beside the Broad Dordogne 9 A Visit from My Sister (c. 1982) 11 On Memorial Drive 12 Woman 14 Dissolving the Boundaries 16 Contemporary American Poetry 17 Girl with Sunflower in Hand 20 II Family Happiness 25 Girls in the Museum 27 Self-Portrait 29 For Sam 30 At the Château Noir 32 Using Anne Frank 34 In My Dream I Appear before the Senate 35 On Brattle Street 37 The Back of the Building 39 Old Post Card from the Jura 41 Sailing Solo 42 By the Time I Met Brian’s Father 44 I Come Back from a Sail 45 To Solitude 47 Bill Evans Plays Never Let Me Go 48 Contents viii III This Fog 51 Reason 52 My Century 53 Early Spring 55 Two Deer 56 A Weeping Cherry Tree 58 Spring 61 Letter from My Working Self to My Resting Self 68 Grayness 69 The Couple at the Window 71 After Watching Twyla Tharp 72 ...

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