Front Cover -- About the Author -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Politics -- Rigged -- Key West -- Excise -- Boy Soldier -- War on Terror -- Wartime Aubade -- Trace -- Monday Morning -- Shoes My Father Wore -- The Lady with the Purple Glove -- Underwater -- Wednesday's Child -- Yesterday's News -- The Dream Giver -- Letter from King Ferdinand of Spain to the Tainos in October 1493 -- Legal Tender -- Dreamboat -- Wish -- News from Nowhere -- English -- Life -- Dalí on Dickens -- Calvino -- In Memoriam -- Love -- 19 Victoria Street, Shrewsbury -- A Concrete Walk in the Woods -- The Rose of Toulouse -- Saturday, Ocean Creek -- Calypso History Lesson -- from American Vulture -- The Vulture Goddess -- Vulture Highway Code -- Vulture Red Letter Day -- Vulture's Theory of Perpetual Return -- Vulture in El Dorado -- Emily Dickinson, How Does Your Garden Grow? -- The Storm -- The Fence -- Night Swim -- The Giant of Land's End.