| I | | |
| Aubade with Sister | p. 11 |
| Killing Time | p. 13 |
| Questions of Paradise | p. 14 |
| Aubade with Son and Sun | p. 16 |
| Small Poem in Search of Depression | p. 18 |
| Every Line a Kind of Prayer | p. 19 |
| Meridian Ode on Melancholy, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn | p. 20 |
| Small Poem for a Token Sparrow on My Sill | p. 21 |
| Lament | p. 22 |
| II | | |
| A Place Made of Starlight | p. 27 |
| Love Song | p. 29 |
| Phoning My Sister at the Nursing Home | p. 30 |
| My Sister Throws Up Her Breakfast | p. 31 |
| For My Sister on Guy Fawkes Day | p. 32 |
| My Sister and the Fury of Aerial Bombardment | p. 33 |
| Christmas Shopping for My Sister | p. 36 |
| My Sister Closes the Closet Door | p. 37 |
| Reincarnation as My Sister | p. 39 |
| Sunday Afternoons with My Sister | p. 40 |
| For My Sister on Mother's Day | p. 41 |
| Christmas Eve: My Sister Ponders the Millennium | p. 43 |
| My Sister Reincarnated as the Brother I Never Had | p. 44 |
| III | | |
| Aubade with Dachshund | p. 47 |
| Nocturne with Witch, Oven and Two Little Figures | p. 49 |
| Nocturne of Dark Purpose | p. 51 |
| Nocturne with Uninvited Guest | p. 52 |
| Corpus Delicti | p. 54 |
| Sung as a Dog Barks in the Night Distance | p. 55 |
| Small Poem My Son is Soon to Enter, to Tear Down | p. 56 |
| Table of the Future | p. 57 |
| Reincarnation as Dachshund | p. 59 |
| IV | | |
| Final Season | p. 63 |
| My Crow, Your Crow | p. 65 |
| Canonical Hours | p. 66 |
| Another of the Emily Dickinson Poems I Continue Writing | p. 68 |
| Crying Through the Night Sky in Detroit | p. 70 |
| Brothers' Keepers | p. 71 |
| Fleeing From Me | p. 73 |
| Enacting a Moment All is Revealed | p. 74 |
| Reincarnation as Studebaker | p. 75 |
| V | | |
| From Our Childhood | p. 79 |
| Containing a Radiance | p. 80 |
| Decrescendo | p. 81 |
| The Rat Considers My Sister | p. 82 |
| Spider Monkeys | p. 84 |
| Meridian with Nocturne Subtext | p. 85 |
| Autumn Reconsidered | p. 86 |
| Composed upon the Huey P. Long Bridge, new Orleans | p. 87 |
| World Without Finishing | p. 88 |
