Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xi
3. On Tour 1
4. Afterthought 1 3
5. Pirate Story 4
6. Afterthought 2 5
7. Comic Book 6
8. Ancestors 1: On Standing Upright 7
9. A Plain Lie 1 8
10. A Plain Lie 2 9
11. Emily Carr as Totem 10
12. Keyed In 11
13. Fable 12
14. Ancestors 2: Hoofing It 13
15. Classical Mythology 14
16. Rendezvous 15
17. Wild Turkeys 16
18. Game Theory 17
19. Taste 18
20. Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina 19
21. Mirror 20
22. For Kristian, for Assurances 21
23. Muse Report 22
24. Trade Off 23
25. Sage Hill Writers at St. Michael’s Retreat, Saskatchewan 24
26. Sharing a Pizza 25
27. Cheticamp, Cape Breton Island 26
28. Guesswork 27
29. Just Be Yourself 1 28
30. Just Be Yourself 2 29
31. Touch 30
32. Winter Parka 31
33. Appalachian Back Roads 32
34. Hot Fudge Sundae 33
35. Making Faces 34
36. Driving to the Airport at Five AM 35
37. Just for Once 36
38. Please Post 37
39. Arctic Miracle 38
40. Night Vision 39
41. To Eli Mandel 40
42. CJCA, Alberta, 1935 41
43. Horse’s Petunia 42
44. Pembina Highway, Winnipeg 43
45. Dear Mark Twain— 44
46. Flooding the Rink 45
47. If I Were You 46
48. NATION IN PERIL 47
49. Freedom of Choice: Pie Shop 48
50. Anne of Green Gables, Found Poem 49
51. Wind Chill Factor 50
52. About the Author 51
53. Goose Air Base, USAF 52
54. I Swear I Didn’t Do It 53
55. Bad Timing 54
56. Country Boy 55
57. Walking Backwards in a Blizzard 56
58. I Saw It With My Own Eyes 57
59. The Word Sprang to My Lips 58
60. Visit to Japan 59
61. Cottage Season 60
62. “no ideas but in things” 61
63. Seduction Attempt 1 62
64. Seduction Attempt 2 63
65. Applause 64
66. Pessoa and His Heteronyms 65
67. Cars Whizzing By 66
68. Henri Rousseau, “The Sleeping Gypsy” 67
69. Terracotta Army 68
70. Laundering the Poem 69
71. Dear Lovelorn 70
72. Horoscope 71
73. Café au Lait and Croissants in Strasbourg 72
74. Daedalus 73
75. The Feet of the Lone Traveller 74
76. Living Life as a Poet 75
77. Don’t Blame Us 76
78. Victorian Lit, University of Alberta, 1946 77
79. I Try to Steal My Identity 78
80. Playing Cards With My Sisters 79
81. Nature Buff 80
82. My Windshield Scraper 81
83. Locating Story 82
84. Late Breaking News 83
85. Making an Impression 84
86. Cockadoodledoo 85
87. Watching for Signs 86
88. About Poetic Despair 87
89. About Poetic Hope 88
90. Grade Ten Typing Lesson: how now brown cow 89
91. The Sky is Falling 90
92. Everything Considered 91
93. Time to Spare 92
94. The Unnameable 93
95. Motion Sickness 94
96. Noosa Heads, Queensland 95
97. Risking It 96