Introduction | p. xii |
Crossroads: Downtown | p. xv |
Acknowledgments | p. xvi |
My Fiftieth Year | p. xviii |
About the Cover Art | p. xix |
Under the Jackson Street Bridge 1 | p. xxi |
Far from East Tennessee | |
Judy at the Louvre | p. xxii |
One Last Espresso | p. 2 |
in Shanghai | p. 8 |
On the Bright Angel Trail | p. 9 |
A Letter to Mabel Dodge | p. 12 |
Richmond, Late '90s | p. 15 |
Taking the Green Line | p. 16 |
Tennessee Boy on the Piazza San Marco | p. 19 |
Palindrome | p. 21 |
Getting Religion | p. 38 |
Gandhi's Window | p. 44 |
Teachings from Bapu Kuti | p. 45 |
Immigration | p. 50 |
Maypole Sanctuary | p. 52 |
Waikiki, January 2004 | p. 57 |
Manila Sirens | p. 58 |
Edinburgh Elegy | p. 66 |
Dust and Ashes | p. 67 |
How My Grandparents Created a Nomad | p. 70 |
And | p. 80 |
Blue Color Remembrances | p. 81 |
Left Behind | p. 82 |
Speculation | p. 84 |
Seeing Through Water | p. 85 |
Chicago in Quito | p. 91 |
Diamond Head Sunset | p. 92 |
Under a Blue Bimini: Key Largo | p. 93 |
Folding the Cranes | p. 97 |
Survivor | p. 98 |
Hedwig's Story | p. 100 |
Stones' Throws | |
Under the Jackson Street Bridge 2 | p. 102 |
River Time | p. 104 |
Along the French Broad | p. 106 |
Beneath Kentucky Lake | p. 108 |
Grassroots | p. 109 |
The Botanist and His Wife | p. 118 |
First Kiss | p. 119 |
First Time Around the Block Alone | p. 120 |
Co-Pilots | p. 122 |
Waitin' on the Sunset | p. 125 |
Night Biking | p. 126 |
Ramsey Cascades | p. 128 |
Straddling Genres: Fact and Fiction in the Travel Narrative | p. 129 |
Spelunking | p. 136 |
Eve, Leaving the Garden for Good, 1953 | p. 138 |
The Pilgrimage of Geoffrey Pinkerton | p. 139 |
Tomatoes | p. 144 |
My Alberta | p. 145 |
Savage Gulf | p. 147 |
Sears Wish Book: A Staple of Rural Southern Childhood | p. 148 |
Only $2 to see the World's Largest Model Railroad Display! | p. 150 |
Folly Island, August | p. 152 |
The Gift | p. 154 |
i was a third grade genius | p. 156 |
5th Avenue: Move Out Day | p. 158 |
A Hot, Gray Day | p. 159 |
Greens and Browns | p. 166 |
Her Vagabond Neon-Heart | p. 167 |
June | p. 179 |
The Metaphors | |
The Well | p. 180 |
Commemoration | p. 182 |
Peristalsis | p. 184 |
1971 | p. 185 |
La Plaza de Toros de Sevilla, Spain | p. 186 |
Erro, errare means I wander, to wander | p. 187 |
Rice and Beans | p. 188 |
Down the Rabbit Hole | p. 189 |
Philology: One Woman's Odyssey | p. 196 |
The Twenty-Seventh Winter | p. 198 |
Chronology of a Dreamer | p. 199 |
Descent, Charleston | p. 201 |
Life Among the Lilliputians | p. 202 |
Threading Stars | p. 205 |
If I Go Suddenly | p. 207 |
The Gimp Club | p. 208 |
Afternoon | p. 216 |
In January, My Middle Daughter Leaves Home | p. 217 |
A Gentle, Loving Disconnect | p. 218 |
Diminishing Returns | p. 219 |
Slideshow | p. 220 |
Down by the Honey | p. 225 |
Small Journey | p. 226 |
Contributing Writers and Artists | p. 228 |
Index of Contributors | p. 244 |
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