Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 -- Thoroughbreds -- Bullhorn -- Epistle to Dr. Venturo -- Cocktail Party, 1953 -- The Moon in the Water -- The Trains -- Card Catalog -- 2 -- Etudes -- Métro -- The Language -- Musée -- Bouquinistes -- La Carte Orange -- La Clarière -- Rilke in Paris -- Coleridge at Midnight -- 3 -- In the Middle of Europe -- Look Out for My Love -- The Objects -- No Friend -- 4 -- Five Runs in France -- Olive -- Rain Forest -- Cardinals -- One Morning -- From a Daybook -- Stucco -- Meditation on a Line from Whitman -- Pedestrian Song -- 5 -- The Machines.