Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Dedication, for Yukiko VII
4. I. IF STONE WERE RAIN
5. A pact with spirits 1
6. If stone were rain 4
7. Kohala 6
8. Dawn at Halape oasis 7
9. Hiking beneath Holei Pali 8
10. Pololu Valley 11
11. Kapaa, Hawaii 14
12. At Paliku 15
13. Waianapanapa 16
14. Hanakapiai Valley 17
15. Na Pali 18
16. Rain quietude 19
17. Night rain 20
18. My open eyes 21
19. II. A LITTLE WINE
20. What harm can a little wine do? 25
21. Kalalau Valley 28
22. I was swimming 29
23. My mantra 32
24. Shimmering 33
25. Yukiko 34
26. Become someone 35
27. In a bamboo grove 36
28. Gingko leaf 37
29. Honolulu 38
30. Paiolo laundromat 39
31. Manoa Valley Theatre ghosts 40
32. On sleeping with kittens 41
33. After sleeping with Evelyn 42
34. Last eyes 43
35. Flambé Amore 47
36. Anyway 48
37. III. LOVE & MOLESTATION
38. Royal flush 49
39. Four poems for Lucretia 52
40. Death in space 56
41. Downtown hotel, Saturday morning 57
42. Sometimes 59
43. The child molester 61
44. The werewolf 63
45. What I like about a blindman 65
46. I knew a woman discontent 66
47. An attempt to console (for Eve) 67
48. Poets will marry anything 68
49. IV. SO PERFECTLY FORGOTTEN
50. Why the eyes close in love 69
51. An autumnal conclusion 72
52. Toward green 73
53. Prelude 74
54. Peach petals 75
55. For my sleeping wife, who insists I study FORTRAN 76
56. Cat 77
57. In the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History (natron) 78
58. In the Senckenberg M of Natural History (formaldehyde) 80
59. Pauline 82
60. Trying to remember her name 84