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Contents

  PROLOGUE

  Who Would Believe

PART ONE: LIE LOVE EASY

1  Lie Love Easy

2  Aerie and High

3  Shared Heat

4  Woodsmoke and Perfume

5  To Make a Baby

6  An Engineering Problem

7  The Bath

8  After She Sleeps

9  Lunch-making

10  Saturday Night

11  Oh God, How Deep

12  They Will Have to Understand

13  Here, Take This Poem

14  Even as the Passion Cools

15  The Hand of God

PART TWO: SHE WHO THINKS LIKE A FISH THINKS

1  Self-Portrait: Newborn Father and Son

2  She Who Thinks Like a Fish Thinks

3  Learning to Speak Max

4  If We Were Bears

5  Singing the Babies to Sleep

6  Don’t Leave Albert Einstein with the Kids!

7  Monster at the Breakfast Table

8  When You Are Ready, Climb

9  Strawberries

10  Angel at Eighth-Grade Graduation

11  If You Become a Monk

12  To a Young Daughter

13  To My Daughter at Fourteen in the Aftermath of the First Full Moon

14  Driving Lesson: To My Son at Sixteen

15  Chores

16  Acres of Diamonds

17  Prayer

18  For a Rescued Daughter, an Artist, Coming Up for Air through Water

19  Backscratch Boy

20  A Wild Wood

21  Troubadour Song

22  Morning of the Wedding

23  Midnight Call

24  Christmas Prayer, Santa Fe, December 25, 1993

25  On a Youngest Daughter’s Acceptance at the College of Her Choice

26  On Course

27  Once in the Sixties

PART THREE: AND STILL SHE BLOOMS

1  In Her Garden, She

2  Two Knives

3  Fall Colors

4  Departure

5  Expedition Alone

6  Skin Like Botticelli’s Venus

7  My Wife Sleeping as I Drive

8  And Still She Blooms

9  At the Temple of Aphrodite

10  Swimming in the Sea of Time

11  New New Mexico Woman

12  You Know What I Know

13  The Poet Visits His Son, a Concert Promoter, and Attends a Michael Franti Concert

14  Dancing at Winter Solstice

15  Wild Swans Near Gladstone

16  Before the Grandchildren Arrive

17  Watching Gus Draw

18  End of Summer

19  A Mirror in Rome

20  Here Is My Promise to You, or Marco Polo Leaves the Kitchen for the Provinces

21  When I Am Eighty

EPILOGUE

  Wedding Poem

  Acknowledgments