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Being Here
TABLE OF CONTENTS

	BEING HERE
	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
	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

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