Table of Contents

• About Seeing What’s Not There
• Acknowledgements
• Epigram
• Prologue
• Speak as a Tree
• Cara Nona (grandmother with grandchild)
• Like Today
• The Improbable Village
• Seeing What’s Not There
• In This and in Other Dreams
• It’s Natural
• Some Lovers, They
• With Honors
• At the Point of Impact
• How I Would Know
• Cosmic Dog Goes for a Walk
• The Beginning of the World
• The Story of Pangaea
• Four Women Sit at the Dining Room Table and They Are Discussing the World
• An Old Woman Looks at Spring
• The Girl with the Penetrating Gaze
• Every Woman Has a Dress in Her Closet
• We See Her First a Girl
• The Emissary
• North under a Snow Goose Moon
• The Mountains We Make with Our Legs
• Winter Transit
• This Time of Year and Ghosts Come Back
• Home for the Holidays
• The Time of the Spider
• Another Christmas Story
• Thinking of You: an Attempt
• Mind
• I, a Vision that Surprised You
• Every Time I See You My First Impulse Is to Pretend
• The Man Who Finally Came to Earth
• Under Certain Circumstances a Man, Say, Might Envision Himself a Chanteuse
• First Communion
• Salome Speaks of Christ
• Domestic Bliss
• Beloved, I Wonder
• Love’s Error
• Love Is
• Rocks Kiss when No One Is Looking
• Save for His Destination
• In Public We Are as One Transported
• Late Night Public Transit
• Imposed Against the Sky
• Suggestions of Infinity
• Echo, Berating Narcissus, the Poet
• A Poet Dies Under Mysterious Circumstances
• The World Does Stop for Death
• Something to Offer
• When All the Wives Have Died and All the Brothers Are Horses
• Following the Death of a Brother
• Outside
• Epilogues
• When
• Across
• About the Author