Lacemakers

Contents

vii Contents Acknowledgments ix I. Votive 3 Cassiopeia 5 Flying into Sacramento 9 From Sleep 10 The Bus from Strasbourg 11 To You, Next Door 13 Before Freeways 15 Guardian Home for the Elderly, Alzheimer’s Wing 16 What Remains 17 Traffic in Phoenix 18 The Fast Local 19 Miles Away 20 Blue Violinist 22 Your Father Takes Me Gliding above the Columbia River 24 Marriage Blessing 26 What My Mother Thought, but Never Said, about Her Honeymoon 27 Letter from Phoenix 28 Vespers at Brown Trout Lake 30 Book of Hours 31 Basilica 33 viii II. St. Stephen’s Hand 39 The Train to Ventimiglia 40 The Incorruptibles 42 The Other Sky 48 One summer we paint your house 50 Waltz of the Flowers 52 Pearls 53 Other Women’s Men 54 Windshield Repair Next Right 56 How I Devour You in Ten Minutes Flat 66 Walking the dog, evening near the river, 67 Saying Grace 69 To My Great Aunt, Whose Funeral I Didn’t Attend 71 Perennial Garden 73 Room 75 St. Margaret’s Well 77 ...