On New Terms | p. 3 |
Goodbye, New York | p. 4 |
Not Pleasant but True | p. 6 |
Play Your Hand | p. 8 |
Both Square and Round | p. 10 |
A Short Skirt on Broadway | p. 12 |
The Past Is Still There | p. 15 |
How Many | p. 16 |
Bedtime Story | p. 18 |
I Saw You Walking | p. 22 |
The Second Child | p. 27 |
"Mother, may I inherit your grace" | p. 29 |
A Drink in the Night | p. 31 |
Poem About an Owl | p. 33 |
A Human Calculation | p. 35 |
Sestina for the Working Mother | p. 36 |
To the Man in a Loden Coat | p. 38 |
Either Way, No Way | p. 40 |
Pink and White | p. 43 |
September Poem | p. 44 |
Birth Day Pun | p. 49 |
Unbidden Sonnet with Evergreen | p. 52 |
Song After Everyone's Asleep | p. 53 |
A Midnight Bris | p. 54 |
The Necklace | p. 57 |
Into the Lincoln Tunnel | p. 59 |
Dad, You Returned to Me Again | p. 61 |
A Joke | p. 63 |
Add One | p. 65 |
Cascade | p. 67 |
Someday We Will Have to Drop the Objects to Which Our Hands Now Cling | p. 70 |
A Piece of Paper | p. 72 |
Above the Roar | p. 75 |
Acknowledgments | p. 79 |
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