Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Prologue -- Comet -- Recollection of Tranquility -- The French Bed -- Recollection of Tranquility -- Bridges of Giverny -- Kehaya House -- Pumpkin Farm, Half Moon Bay -- Fugitive Effects -- The Temple of Poseidon -- Marsyas -- Fathers -- Front Page New York Times -- Roses on the Ceiling -- Dürer's Jerome -- Roses on the Ceiling -- Marble Boy -- Greek Stones -- Maiano -- Christine, Daughter of Immigrants -- The Moth -- The Bream -- Kayaks -- Pretty Rooms -- 1. The Mower -- 2. Trio -- 3. Anniversary -- 4. Rousseau -- 5. At Night on the Terrace, Fiesole -- 6. Fourth of July -- 7. That Hat -- 8. The Turtle -- 9. Caravaggio -- 10. Conscience -- 11. Fig -- The Red Coat -- Lilies -- On Throwing a Fish in the Well -- Two at the Dock -- Goat Song -- The Red Coat -- Above the Town -- The Marsh -- The Glider -- No. 1 -- On a Bus to the Airport, Colorado -- Epilogue -- Face -- Notes -- About the Author -- The May Swenson Poetry Award.