Cover -- Contents -- I: The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel -- Pardon and Amnesty -- Almost -- In Vino Veritas -- From Here to There -- Epithalamion in a Minor Key -- At Advent's End -- II: This First Hot Saturday in May -- A Late Apology -- Provinces -- Teaching The Merchant of Venice -- The Hills, Beautiful Hills -- Insomnia at Forty-Six -- Easter Sundays -- III: Labor Day -- The Novelist to His Characters -- Someone Is Burning Leaves -- Four Voices for the Afterlife -- Mare Cognitum -- Now: A Benediction -- Acknowledgments.