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Contents: “Life Before Birth,” a Display 3; Half-Price Suite at the Park Central 4; Summering in the Midwest 5; The Painter Goes Fishing 6; You Left Me to This House 7 Vision and Prayer 8; How to Tempt a Fish 10; From Abstinence, N.H. 12; Final Love Note 14; To Mount Monadnock in Fog 15; First Snow 17; Eve to Adam, in Retrospect 19; The Wood-Burning Stove 20; Valediction 22; To the Curious Reader 23; Mortal Thoughts 25; The Young Men of Division Street 29; Curriculum Vitae 30; The Good Fortune of Others 32; Calla Lily Studies 33; Self-Portrait as Woman Posed on Flowered Couch 34; En Route 36; Red Light, Roma 38; Il Monte 39; The Imperial Forum 41; The Sistine Chapel 42; Back to the Mega-Store 43; Nightmare 44; Meditation, Mid-December 45; Still Life with Pear 47; Out of Love 49; A Dialogue in the Park 50; Among Cows 51; The Pleasures of Perspective 52; Preface to a Gesture 55; Elegy in Four Parts 57; To the Peony 61; To the Tiger in the Shriners’ Parade, Hanover, N.H. 62; A Mourning Dove in New York City 63; For a Friend Since Youth 64; After the Stillbirth, Autumn 66; An Imaginary Tapestry 67; To Helen, from Moose Island, Maine 68; Fra Angelico’s Annunciation, Convent of San Marco 69 After the Old Testament Lecture, Taking theShortcut Home 70; The Lighthouses Are Automated 72; Winter Morning with Crow 73; A Freighter in Eastport 75; Leave of Absence 76; Notes 77

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