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Contents Preface xv Acknowledgments xvii Lost Swimmer 1 PART ONE. Anticipating Yesterday, Remembering Tomorrow Postscript to Many Letters 5 Carol of a Father 7 God and Man 8 Preface to a Poetry Reading 9 Bellbeat 10 My Roosevelt Coupé 12 The Torch of Blood 14 To a Bicyclist in France 17 To a Commencement of Scoundrels 19 No Echo in Judea 22 Splitting 24 Anticipating Yesterday, Remembering Tomorrow 26 The First and Only Sailing 28 Don Juan’s Dream of Near and Far Misses 30 Waiting for Zero 33 A City Made Sacred Because Your Son’s Grandfather Died in It 35 The Bearing 37 Only the New Branches Bloom 38 The Toys 40 The Next Time You Were There 41 The Silence at the Bottom of the Well 43 PART TWO. Silence Spoken Here Maps for a Son Are Drawn as You Go 47 CON TEN T S X Silence Spoken Here 49 No Is the Father of Yes 51 The Quiet Proofs of Love 53 The First Sam Hazo at the Last 55 Song for the Flies of Fire 57 Florence by Proxy 59 Kak 61 Another Word for Time 63 No Fanfares, No Handshakes, No Salutes 66 Who Promised You Tomorrow? 69 Unto the Islands 72 The Real Reason for Going Is Not Just to Get There 75 A Crossing 77 The World That Lightning Makes 78 Whatever Happened to Defiance? 80 To All My Mariners in One 82 Soldiers Despite Ourselves 84 Matador 86 To Stop and Be Stopped in Lourmarin 89 The Song of the Horse 91 Not Even Solomon . . . 93 PART THREE. The Most You Least Expect For Bill 97 Understory 99 Putting Away the Lost Summer 101 The University of All Smiles 103 The Most You Least Expect 105 When Nothing’s Happening, Everything’s Happening 107 Scientia Non Est Virtus 109 While Walking on France 111 Cezanne’s Atelier near Aix 113 When Life Turns Still 115 Winston 117 Everything’s Important, Everything’s Brief 119 For Tomas, Who Survived the Axe Blow from Within 121 The Horizon at Our Feet 123 At the Site of the Memorial 125 The Bodies of Women 127 Once Upon a Wedding 129 The Holy Surprise of Right Now 131 Ahead of Time 133 [44.202.90.91] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 17:43 GMT) CON TEN T S X I Ballad of the Jolly Broker 135 September 11, 2001 137 Ballad of a Returnee 139 Dining with Montaigne 141 Facing the Lake with St.-Ex 143 Breakdown 144 Thus Spake Mercutio 146 Arms and the Word 147 PART FOUR. Ongoing Presences Have No Past Tense Just Words 151 Casanova to God 153 A Toast for the Likes of Two 155 Looking into a Tulip 158 After Arlington 159 Ballad of the One-Legged Marine 160 A Time of No Shadows 162 Ongoing Presences Have No Past Tense 164 Notre Dame du Lac 166 National Prayer Breakfast 169 The More We Know, the Less We Feel Until 171 Mustangs 173 In the Time of the Tumult of Nations 174 For Which It Stands 176 A Czech Susannah in Cannes 178 Towels 180 Mediterranean Update 182 Seesaws 184 The Necessary Brevity of Pleasures 185 Parting Shot 187 For the Time Being 188 The Real Wager 190 Caesarean 192 As a Rule 193 For the Dead, It’s Over 195 Morituri 196 Gloria 200 Skin-Deep Is Deep Enough 202 The World That Waits in Words 205 And the Time Is 207 Once, Again 209 Sudden or Slow but Sure 210 The Contrarians 212 CON TEN T S X I I PART FIVE. The Short Life of Perpetuity The Fifth Element 217 In Troth 219 Making It Look Easy 221 The Short Life of Perpetuity 223 Kennedy 225 The Fools of God 226 The Merchandiser’s Song 228 Sloth Is the Mother of Invention 230 Blossom 232 Welcome to Used-to-Was 233 Tattoos 234 The King of Swing 235 Say Cheese 237 Sleep Is a Dangerous Exile 238 Heredity’s a Card That’s Always Dealt Face Down 240 Eyes 241 A Preferable Nudity 242 The Art Professor Discusses Bernini’s Teresa in Ecstasy 243 The Time It Takes to Tell 244 Flagrante Delicto 246 The Face of Catherine Deneuve 247 Ophelia’s Lie 248 Sloth Is a Lost Art 249 No Words for This 251 Skunked 252 Executioner 253 Man Is the Only Animal Capable of Shame 254 Signs of Life in a Sundown...