Table of Contents
FEATHER BAG, STICK BAG Bobby Kennedy’s Rocker • Feather Bag, Stick Bag • There Are No Names But Stories • Thomas Jefferson Provides • Wilma Tells How • Shockley • Tubby Tells About His Uncle Mike • Liberty Dollar • Her Mother Tells Her • Juliaetta Coffee Blues • To Elko and Back • Losing One • Flower Drawn from Thorn • Natural Wonders • Later Voyage of the Trident Submarine • Living by Kindness • Grandpa, Come On In • Dare to Be Great • If We Shed Our Names • Salish Graveyard • When Saint Babylon Rides • Swans out South Jetty Road • Paulina Rodeo • Morning Report by Lady Makepeace • What Ever Happened to Gypsy Slim • Watching the Automatic Typewriter • Man Who Stole a Loaf of Bread • Sound Anthologist • Nineteenth Century News • Beautiful Death • Aunt Charlotte Said STARLIGHT BRAILLE This Woman Was Our Kite • Hacksaw Says Their Marriage Vows • Medieval Prayerbook • Book of Hours • Figurehead of the Good Ship MaryAnne • Permanent Woman, 1929 • A Pretty Message of Farewell • Biology Darkroom • At Caesar’s Palace • Anna Bollein • Restless Calligraphy of the Human Form • In a Photograph My Grandmother AFTER THE BATTLE Don’t Talk on the Sabbath • Under an Oak in California • Opening the Book • How We Live • After the Barn Collapsed • Finding the True Point of Beginning • Night Work in June • At Lost Lake • A Key to the Nature Library • Under the North Eave • Having Words with Belle • Pocatello Light • He Meant to Live • Near Minerva • Beautiful Old Wreck • All • Tears of the Slot-Eyed Child • Walking to the Mailbox • Joanne’s Gift • Back Home in the Shopping Center