Table of Contents

Freight The Horse The Hotstrip Pedigrees Going On Dolls One Reason We Call Ourselves Human Countenance Triangulation Beach Agates Those Chesapeake Blues Tarzan and the Elephant Burial Ground Waxing the Car in Late Fall When You Know it Most Absolute Emily Dickinson, Composing The Impulse Apology The Passing Titanic Carp The White Tree For W. L. H. Grabow Goes Out Jogging with His Son Grabow's Shaggy Dog Story Grabow Buys a New Suit Letter to the Editor Grabow at Work A Casualty Grabow, Signing His Daughter's Report Card, Tells Her She's Grounded His Wife Down with the Flu, Grabow Goes to the Supermarket To a Fieldmouse Bestiary: Seven Parts for Two Voices Joseph of Nazareth, Bridegroom Alloys Day Off The Tiger Photograph of You in Late Evening Un Bel Di Riding It Out on Elk Mountain High Country: Resolving to Travel Light Maidenhair Thanksgiving