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| Negative Space | 3 | ||
| An Ear Dissected | 4 | ||
| Remains of Dante Reported Missing | 5 | ||
| Late Night Thoughts on Reading Lewis Thomas | 6 | ||
| How It Could Happen | 7 | ||
| The Uncertainty Principle | 8 | ||
| Expectations | 9 | ||
| Consumers | 10 | ||
| A Word or Two on Love | 11 | ||
| The Crying Game | 12 | ||
| Imperfect Love | 13 | ||
| Acceptance | 14 | ||
| His Corner | 15 | ||
| The Graffiti Artist | 16 | ||
| The Jungles of Henry James | 17 | ||
| I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say | 18 | ||
| Dreaming by Ear | 20 | ||
| The Man Said | 22 | ||
| Night Song for Thelonious | 24 | ||
| Rush Hours | 26 | ||
| Georgia O'Keeffe's Door | 27 | ||
| Ma Jolie | 28 | ||
| That Italian Woman | 29 | ||
| Paris Street, Rainy Day | 30 | ||
| Loss of Confidence | 31 | ||
| After the Fall | 32 | ||
| Son of the Poet | 33 | ||
| Weldon Kees to J.D. Salinger | 35 | ||
| Remembering | 36 | ||
| The Armory Wrestling Match | 38 | ||
| Being Here | 39 | ||
| THE SLANT SONNETS | |||
| Personals | 45 | ||
| Vamps | 46 | ||
| Supermarket Tabloids | 47 | ||
| Green People | 48 | ||
| Urban Renewal | 49 | ||
| Bill of Particulars | 50 | ||
| DRAPING THE DOORWAYS | |||
| Bells for Emily | 53 | ||
| Lament for a Lost Daughter | 54 | ||
| Bitter Poem | 55 | ||
| A Death in the Family | 56 | ||
| The County Medical Care Facility | 57 | ||
| Fine and Private Places | 58 | ||
| Alzheimer's: On the Edge | 59 | ||
| Ironies | 62 | ||
| Coda | 63 | ||
| According to Your Last Will and Testament | 64 | ||
| Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird | 65 | ||
| Retrieval | 66 | ||
| THE CANCER CIRCLE | |||
| Digital | 69 | ||
| Ultrasound Biopsy | 70 | ||
| Bone Scam | 71 | ||
| Consultation | 72 | ||
| The Decision | 73 | ||
| Impotence | 74 | ||
| Incontinence | 75 | ||
| Addiction | 76 | ||
| I Lecture My Cancer | 77 | ||
| I Introduce My Cancer to the Family | 78 | ||
| At Breakfast with My Cancer | 79 | ||
| ALBUM IN BLACK AND WHITE: | |||
| THE DEPRESSION YEARS | |||
| Pink Slip | 83 | ||
| Funks's Berry Farm | 84 | ||
| My Grandmother's Back Door | 85 | ||
| Family Circle | 86 | ||
| Spring Funeral | 87 | ||
| MEMOIR | |||
| Memoir | 91 | ||
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| BALANCING ACCOUNTS | |||
| The Morning of Panic on Turning Eighty | 97 | ||
| A Toast to Frost at Midnight | 98 | ||
| Confession | 99 | ||
| Dedication | 100 | ||
| Ballad for Two Thousand One | 101 | ||
| Choosing | 103 | ||
| NOTES | 107 | ||