Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vi
4. Preface ix
5. Part I.
6. Epigraph 1
7. If He Remembers June Light in Oslo 3
8. Running 4
9. Metamorphosis 6
10. Trusting the Beads 7
11. Unexpectation 10
12. History 12
13. Today 14
14. Situation 2003 15
15. A Party on the Way to Rome 16
16. Apacatastasis 18
17. If the World Were Glass 20
18. The Counterchime 22
19. Confession 24
20. He Writes to the Soul 25
21. 1974 27
22. Part II. Stories for Braille Calliope
23. Epigraph 29
24. Sometimes at the Braille Calliope 31
25. Bird Man Stranded 32
26. The Eye Becomes Birds Because of War 34
27. The Toad Prince 36
28. King's Ex 37
29. Zeno 40
30. The Thirteenth Interval 41
31. Teleology of the Airhose 43
32. King of the Butterflies 44
33. The Montavilla Reveries 48
34. The Fire Elegies 49
35. A Christmas Ode After the Fashion of Michael Heffernan... 57
36. Heaven 59
37. Part III.
38. Epigraph 61
39. Why the River Is Always Laughing 63
40. Galileo 64
41. Story Time 66
42. All Day at the Brainard Pioneer Cemetery 68
43. Backyard Astronomy 71
44. Letter 72
45. Cole Porter 73
46. The Getaway 75
47. Keats 77
48. Event 78
49. Like Rain Descending 79
50. The New Orpheus 81
51. A Little Blues 82
52. Acknowledgments 83
53. About the Poet 85