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To absent friends
As the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. And they two went on.
2 Kings 2:6
Contents
1 I
6 Bad News
8 Potatoes
13 Changing Drivers
14 Snapshot
15 Two
16 While We Were Passing
17 Gabardine
18 The Woman Whose Husband Was Dying
1 II
1 Estate Sale
2 Opossum
3 A Backyard Fish Pool
4 A Visitant at Five A.M.
5 A Jonathan in Spring
6 Dead Bat
7 Sundial
8 Birdhouse
9 Tree Frog
10 Lantern
11 Dead Fly
12 Garrison, Nebraska
13 A Mouse in a Trap
14 A Wasp’s Nest
15 Tree Removal
16 Barn Swallows
17 Zinc Lid
1 III
1 At a Kitchen Table
2 A Morning in Early Spring
3 Closing the Windows
4 The Past
5 Sleep Apnea
6 First Marriage
7 Grandfather
8 Howard
9 Deep Winter
10 New Moon
11 Hands in the Wind
12 Spanish Lessons
13 Painting the Barn
14 Those Summer Evenings
15 Awakening
16 A Person of Limited Palette
1 IV
1 Small Rooms in Time
2 Right Hand
