Bottom of the ocean -- Small purchase -- The semantics of flowers on Memorial Day -- Dropping the euphemism -- Calling him back from layoff -- My life with a gardener -- Meeting Bill -- An old story -- The documentary art -- Becoming bird -- Another awkward stage of convalescence -- The bald truth -- After working sixty hours again for what reason -- Oath to my former life -- Spirit ditty of no fax-line dial tone -- Insomnia diary -- Go Greyhound -- Finally opening the anthology to Kunitz -- Free-floating anxiety sounds like a pretty balloon -- Tuesday's walk -- 1935 -- American studies -- Sur Coast diary -- Capital crime -- Now and then I am direct -- Growing at the speed of fashion -- Bars poetica -- Translator's note -- Echo -- Mortal shower -- Meteor shower -- Building a painting a home -- Commission by attrition -- Goodbye in the shape of a knot -- The edge -- Radical neck -- It's not so much the heat as the stupidity -- Cure for the common cold -- Cutting edge -- Truth about love -- Shopping at the ocean.