Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Night -- Invisible Men -- What Did the Children Know and When Did They Know it? -- Leaving the House on Bobolink -- The Fire of London -- Summer Meditation for Paul -- Maple Tree -- My Father Gave Us a Wendy-Bird -- October -- Terminal -- On Mount Saint Francis -- Psychoanalytic Vacation -- Midwestern Summer -- Mud Cap -- He Read the New Yorker Aloud to Me and Spoonfed Me Pieces of Cantaloupe -- I Need Scarf Lessons -- The Flossie Stories -- Autumn Is Cusp -- Swerve -- If You Step Off Now -- In the Truth Room -- A Note on the Author.