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CONTENTS

  Cover

  Title Page

  Copyright

  Dedication

1. THE AGNOSTIC PIROUETTES

1  A Short Song

2  Desperately Composed

3  Crossing Jordan

4  But before That

5  Connectivity

6  Diminishing Returns

7  The Body in Motion

8  Kansas

9  This Mortal Coil On the Nature of Things The After Hours Afterlife The Parable as Originally Told I’m Not Sure about Dying Edward Hopper

10  Astronomy Lesson

11  Saving Face

12  Tiny Bees Clung to Us

13  Out of Sequence

14  Two Poems in Which He Thinks of Her

15  The Principal Uncertainty

16  An As-Though Prayer

2. THE WRONG ANGELS

1  Village

2  Tin Soldiers

3  I Said to God, “I’m Thinking of You”

4  The Wrong Angels Edvard Munch A Tense Shift Addresses the Imagination Goodbye to All That I Thought War of the Worlds Saint Second Amendment In This Photograph Baron von Richthofen Meltdown The Angel of Mars: Two Views

5  Scout’s Honor

6  Reflection upon Psalm 121

7  Anchors Aweigh Tag Religious Experience Limes Night Watch Lifeboat Dream If the Moon Kept Goats: A Veteran’s Tale

8  The Situation

9  Two Endings

3. THE UNATTAINABLE NOW

1  Two Birds

2  The Limits of Mercy

3  My Youth

4  He Speaks to the Muse

5  The Nothing That Is Ghosts Author, Author Your Brother’s Face A Man in the Park Masefield in Purgatory Second Message Abide with Me

6  Is Time the Road or What Travels along It?

7  A Willow Life

8  Falling

9  The Body at Rest

10  Biography

11  Take Me out to the Ball Game

12  In the House of the Afterlife

13  Memory’s Daybook

14  Voice

15  A Last Walk in the Quabbin

16  Love’s Last Number

17  Step by Step

18  Wyoming

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS