Table of Contents
Introduction viii
1
First Lunch with Relative Stranger Mister You 3
Little Day 6
The Great Erector of Invisible Pets 7
This Darkness 8
A Little Distantly, As One Should 9
Little Morning 13
The Echo Sounder 14
The Different Distance 17
Selecting Things for Vagueness 18
The Way Things Have Been Going Lately 19
The Worth of a Thing That Is Not a Thing But a Number 20
Little Kindness 22
Farmers' Almanac 23
Little Obsession 25
The Lost Glove 26
2
The Circus Folk Find Fault in Their Own Humanness 29
Miles Per Hour 30
The Firemen Are Dancing 32
Little Monogamy 33
The Unbearable 34
Spring 1989 35
The Angles Made at the Factory 38
The Ladybugs Grow Bolder Every Year 39
All Kinds of Shipwrecks 40
3
The Spider Web 43
4
The Lessing Table 53
Little Flower Funeral 54
Centerfold 55
Little Commitment 56
Evolution 57
The Frontier of Never Leaving 58
The Different Ways of Going 59
13285 Arnold Drive 60
Thirteen Feral Cats 61
