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Contents

PROLOGUE

Who Would Believe

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

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