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Contents PARTI 3 Avoidance 4 What Do You Want? 5 Drought: Teaching, Benedict, Nebraska 7 Tough 8 Names MyMother Knew 10 Houses 12 Said to Sarah, Ten 13 Fast Car on Nebraska I-8o: Visiting Teacher 15 Afternoon, with Cold 16 Sick 17 Back 18 Friday 20 "The world is not something to look at; it is something to be in." PART 2 23 Secrets 24 Heart Transplant 26 Footnotes 28 Doing the Puzzle / AngryVoices 30 Prelude 32 Part Coquette, Part Monster 33 Trans 35 Trans formation / Feathers / Train Travel 38 Stone 41 Before John and Maria's Wedding PART 3 45 Historical Documents 47 Volunteers 49 Some Questions about the Storm 50 Lost Jewelry 52 Mother-in-Law 54 Women &Men 55 Some Questions for the Evening Class 56 Insomnia III 58 She 59 Letter from a Place I've NeverBeen 60 Not Now 61 Summer 63 Anna Maria Is Coming, or Maybe Thomas Barton, or Max! PART 4 67 Hello 68 The Address on the Map 69 Wonder Woman's Rules of the Road 73 Aaron at Work / Rain 74 Sarah Returned to Me, Wearing the Poet's Gloves 75 Company/3A.M. 77 First, Thus 78 The Storehouse 79 Early Morning, Left-Handed 80 Visitation: Pink Foam Letter 81 The Funeral of X,Who Was Y's Mother 85 Acknowledgments and Notes ...