Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Ode to McCain's Deep'n Delicious Cake 3
4. The Real Pleiades 6
5. Your Past Selves Attend Your Birthday Party 9
6. Basel Penpal 11
7. Ode to Great-Uncle Will's Shine 14
8. Light of a Fractured Moon 16
9. After Apple-Picking 19
10. If You Answer Yes to Any of the Following Questions 21
11. Elegy to 17 22
12. After Midnight 23
13. Ode to the ½ Moon 25
14. Antigonish at Dawn 29
15. it hurt to be nowhere 31
16. Magic Show 33
17. I Should Have Guessed 35
18. Names like quartz in the mouth 36
19. Harvest 37
20. Picking Season 38
21. Across the Marshes 41
22. Archipelago 43
23. Ode to Tunnock's Caramel Log 45
24. Frost in October 48
25. Roman Aubade 50
26. Ode to Sleep 51
27. Sfogliatella 53
28. Elegy for the Linden Tree 56
29. Iceberg in Ferryland 57
30. Power's Store 59
31. My Father's Father 61
32. I have not always been as careful as I am now 64
33. The Fever and the Fret 65
34. I come home to remember why I have to leave again 91
35. Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery 92
36. Andromeda 94
37. The stone 95
38. Purple Balloons 97
39. Notes 101
40. Acknowledgments 103