Cover -- Contents -- ONE -- The Neighbourhood in Phases -- A Place of One's Own -- Batterie de Cuisine: The Cleaver -- The Blue Vase -- On Hearing the Internationale at the Bloor Street Subway Station -- Heard on the Street -- The Two Graces -- Tomatoes -- Thrift Shop -- Cafeteria -- Insomnia -- Father and Daughter -- Alarm -- Recovery Room -- Aubade -- TWO -- The Tie -- Two Collegial Elegies -- The Asparagus Feast -- The Exorcism -- Language Lessons -- Loquacious Philomel -- Orpheus Silent -- Rain -- THREE -- Looking Back At Us -- The Coral Sea -- Recalling the Roll: Hampton Institute 1955/1995 -- The Hot-Rods Ride at Dusk -- The Hunt -- The Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.: 1,000 Political Photos in the Occidental Grill -- The American Smile -- FOUR -- War Stories -- A Stop in Orvieto -- FIVE -- Congreve -- That Island -- Album Leaves -- "Because We Have Known Them" -- "The Supplement" -- I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate -- SIX -- Bas-Relief -- King Charles's Head -- The Cardinal's Cortege -- Parish Records, ca. 1600 -- Rutherford's Division of the Atom -- Evidence of Things Not Seen -- SEVEN -- 3 A.M. -- September Letter -- Towards Winter -- For Murray Hunter, M.D. -- Old Man and Skeleton in a Teaching Hospital -- EIGHT -- Notes on Speech and Silence -- Famine -- Pastimes -- Reading Habits -- For P.K. Page -- Akhmatova -- Smuggler's Requiem -- Shirley Wiitasalo Accepts an Arts Award -- Hopper Retrospective -- Minor English Watercolours of the 19th Century -- Deaf Visitors Among Dutch Paintings -- 8 1/2" x 11" White Unlined -- Respects to William Basse -- Acknowledgments.