Cover -- CONTENTS -- 1. SWEET GREASE -- Mario -- Moon -- A Bird -- Numbers -- Winter Solstice -- Variations on Antonio Machado's "Caminante" -- Let's Say I'm Sad -- Open -- Black Car Blues -- Blessing the Animals -- After-Music -- 2. HOW THE JUICES LEAP -- Oboe -- Egg -- Poker -- Clue -- Passenger-Side Mirror -- Cherry Pie -- Quatrain -- Moustache -- Alarm Clock -- Runoff -- Hunch -- Negative Space -- Mousetrap -- Electric Collar -- Small Gray Box with Three Wires -- Deaf Ear -- Waning Moon -- 3. STEERING BY PHEROMONES -- Early Storm -- A Clutch of Mammals -- Path to the Cabin -- Scramble Competition Polygyny -- Dust Mites -- The Fly -- Hippocampus -- Exits -- 4. ONE MATCH FLARING -- Wise Man -- Joseph -- The Animals -- Adam's Christmas -- The Woman from Chiapas -- Christmas, Mexico -- Script for a Cold Christmas -- Elevator Music -- Christmas Night -- Midnight -- December 26 -- Shepherd -- 5. BIRD WITH THE DOWNCAST BEAK -- Self-Portrait as Waterfall -- Finding the Way -- Crete: the Diktaean Cave -- Daughter in New york -- Blood Work -- Radiation -- The Visit -- Hurtle -- No Clocks -- Pelican -- A Dialogue between the Body and Soul -- Music -- Silence -- AUTHOR 'S NOTE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.