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Contents

I. Girls 1

Biography 2

Parrot Jungle 3

Inheritance 4

Matinee at the Shore 7

Clifton Park 9

Labor Day 11

The Good Father 13

Hollyhocks in the Alley 15

My Father’s War 16

We Called It Armistice Day 18

Lament 20

Crabbing on the Isle of Wight Bay 22

Early Morning in Highlandtown 24

My Mother on My Cousin’s Wedding Day 26

Girls 28

The Color of Her Volkswagen 29

Inclined Plane, Pulley Wheel & Axle 31

Engineer 34

Dancing at Lake Montebello 36

Judgment 37

Reckoning 38

II. Love Drunk 41

At the Foghorn 42

Actor 44

Preparations 45

Nickel Dreams 47

I Can’t Get No 49

Homeleaving 52

Punting 53

Starter Wedding 54

Love Drunk 56

Greenwich Mean Time 57

Tremont Street Suppers 59

Putnam Avenue in Spring 60

Drinking Games 61

In Louisburgh, County Mayo, thinking about Dublin 62

Suze in Midsummer 64

Brantwood Lane Miscellany 66

Pâtissière 68

The Guitar of Solitude 70

Murphy in August 71

Ghazal: Returning 72

Shades at the Reunion 73

III. More Dangerous for All of Us 75

I Learned That Marilyn Had Died 76

Gun Stories 78

Photos of Your Daughter’s Wedding Under the Mandap,

Not the Chuppa 80

Elegy for Alice, Forty-Six 82

Scattering Alice’s Ashes from the Pont D’Arcôle 83

Eve’s Diary 84

Sugar Pumpkins 86

Weeding the Bittersweet 87

Last Sunday in July 89

The Shadow of the Lost Object Falls Across the Ego 90

How You Were Before 91

The Dying 92

Making Love to You Was Like Peeling 94

More Dangerous for All of Us 95

Deep Midwinter After-Party 97

The Summer People 99

Greyhounds 101

Leukapheresis 103

Charm City 104

Leftovers 106

God’s Thief 107

Walking at Day’s End 109

About the Author 111