Authors' preface -- Durer's meditation on small things -- The artist and his model -- Letter from Lebanon -- George Foreman in Zaire -- Scratch -- The injury wall -- Quietism -- Waitfulness -- Lovesick: from Lesbos to Nashville -- Elvin Jones at midnight -- The arum lilies in my mother's dream -- Bougalie -- Egret haiku -- Cane field haiku -- On an overgrown path -- One day, working -- Hollybeach, 1952 -- My son discovers the draw of water -- Einstein's violin -- Proof: that space and time do intersect -- Durer's pond in the woods -- Monet's La Pie -- The hand of thought -- The geese on Highway 16 -- On listening to Schubert -- Django Reinhardt at La Cigale -- A photograph for my father -- Family album -- Friday night fish fry -- Saturday night crab boils -- The black door in Arnaudville -- A barn in Arnaudville.
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