Table of Contents
Family Like a Pack of Wild Dogs 1
Autumn in an Old House 2
And then I drove until the car ran out of gas 3
Fat Banker 4
Wife's Monologue on the Occasion of a Seventh Wedding Anniversary 5
Beatrice's Lament 7
Awards Committee 8
Winter in an Old House 10
Airport Elegy 11
Sex in Old House 13
Vanity 14
And then I painted myself with a halo 16
Husband's Monologue on the Occasion of a Seventh Wedding Anniversary 17
While My Son Sleeps in a Cradle Next to Our Bed 18
Night in an Old House 20
Winter in Hartford 21
52 Horses 22
Late Winter Sonnet 24
Artifacts 25
Cathedral 26
Day in an Old House 27
The Contract 28
Spring in an Old House 29
Fragments 30
Synergy 32
Syncopation 33
Bonds 35
Form 36
Hymn to a Hot City 37
And then I woke up under water Loser's Almanac 39
Pathology 42
Summer in an Old House 43
Visiting Hours 44
And then I read Moby Dick with my eyes closed 46
Letter to a Sick Friend 47
Entry ways 48
Song 51
And then I started living in the movies 52
