Table of Contents
In the New House • Visiting Irasburg, Vermont in July • In the House Where Waiting Begins • Mrs. Caldera's House of Things • Mrs. Kinsey's House of Children • Words for the Spare House • The Visit • Running through Arizona • About Distance My Father Teaches Me a Kind of Driving • In Alexandria • Uncle Hagop the Spendthrift • Uncle Karekin • At Stanley Bay • Grandmother, Garlic, and Alexandria Going Back • Mr. Levering Our Scoutmaster Gives Me a Sense of Perspective • Mrs. Mitstifer • Walking my Children Home from School • The Persistence of Zachary • Compensations • The Teenager • When I Am Away from my Children Shooting Star • Somewhere Between • Territories • A Hill in Summer • Another Side • Unhappiness • The Leap • Dark Quarrel • The Sleeper • Rara Avis • A Moment for Husband and Wife • At Flood Time • After Long Days of Rain • For Us
