A Line from Jimi Hendrix Comes to Mind

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Next Door 1
5. Promised Town 3
6. House Phone 5
7. Anthology 7
8. What We Read Then 9
9. The First, Youngest Men 11
10. Seven, Seven, Seventy-Seven 12
11. The Voice of Peace 14
12. Houston in the Early Eighties 15
13. Without Measure 17
14. Stowaway’s Ascent 18
15. One Key 19
16. Packing Slip 21
17. A Line from Jimi Hendrix Comes to Mind 22
18. Early April 23
19. “This” and “That” 24
20. When My Daughter Got Sick 25
21. Beauty’s Rearrangements 26
22. What For Is For 28
23. Before 29
24. Cosmic Page 30
25. A Poem for S. 31
26. Little White Truck 32
27. Sonnets for the Autobiographical Urban Dweller 33
28. Baldo’s 34
29. Perfume’s Journey 35
30. Little “the” Rules the World 37
31. Gardens, Passover 38
32. Streaming Nancy 39
33. The Use of Metaphor 42
34. God 43
35. The Gold Standard 44
36. Marriage Made in Brooklyn 45
37. Gratitude’s Anniversary 47
38. What to Expect 48
39. My Hands in Winter 49
40. Firefly 50
41. One Block from the Navy Yard 51
42. The Moment We Can’t Stay 52
43. For You Today 53
44. No Ideas but in Things 54
45. The Two Yvonnes 56
46. Dedications 58
47. Backmatter 60