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Contents

Title Page

Note to Reader

A Finger

After the Inauguration, 2013

Christmas Eve at Washington’s Crossing

Cibolero

Gods and Empire

Poetry Reading by the Black Sea

“The smell of autumn rain …”

Préface en Prose

The Alibi

Returning after Our War

Three Men Dancing on a River Shore

Showgirl

Remembering Elling Eide (1935–2012)

Finishing Up the Novel after Some Delay

For ChÖgyam Trungpa Rinpoche

The Uses of Poetry

A Visit from His Muse

Down Under

The Poet Retires

Tide Pool

At Nora’s House, Shepard’s Roost, Atlantic Beach, NC

Waiting for the Painter to Return

Annie’s Starling

A Miami Moment

Anna Akhmatova Spends the Night on Miami Beach

Chasing Out the Demons

Coyote past Sunset

El Mercado

El Cementerio de la Merced

Looking for the Lights

Back Then

About the Author

Books by John Balaban

Acknowledgments

Copyright

Special thanks