""CONTENTS""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Prelude for Penny Whistle""; ""Still Life""; ""On Being Asked My Opinion About an Autopsy""; ""A Brief History of Music""; ""Early Instance""; ""Vigil: Dwindle""; ""The Other Side""; ""Double Elegy in Spring""; ""The Swim""; ""The Composer""; ""The Call""; ""Interlude: February""; ""Opal""; ""On Giving My Father a Book About Roses""; ""Wolf Story""; ""The Seventh Day""; ""Sylvia's Starlings""; ""Ark""; ""The Primary Tool Is Soup""; ""Moment of Brain""; ""Elegy for the Difference Between Reading and Being""; ""The Scientist""; ""Elegy for Lessons""
""Patton Lake""""Interlude: Still Still""; ""Ballad in Fall""; ""Whether or Not There Are Apples""; ""On Thursday She Began Saying Everything at Once""; ""Slide""; ""Her Job""; ""Ancient New Parents""; ""To Brain on Brain's Last Day as Brain""; ""On Being Asked About Giving Up the Flute""; ""The Difference Between Writing and Music""; ""Postlude for Penny Whistle, Spoons, and Drum""; ""Notes""
