Front Cover -- About the Author -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on the Text -- Contents -- I -- Who He Was 1-5 -- Death Mask -- Slowly Sounds the Bell -- II -- Certain Windows -- III -- Circumcision -- Indices -- Inquisition -- Rosebud -- Ishmael -- IV -- Accounting -- Death Rattle -- Blind Date -- Texaco Saturday Afternoon Opera -- Cabaletta -- All the Dark Years -- For John Crook -- Homage for a Waterman -- Facsimile Folio -- John Winthrop's Ghost -- V -- Pastiche -- Poetry Reading -- After Lunch -- Little Black Dress -- Kept -- Pas de Deux -- Winter Mornings -- Yester-year -- Revenant -- Sie Kommt -- The Faithful -- End of the Affair -- VI -- Decorating the Nursery -- Wine Circle -- Dodge-Ball -- Blue Rinse Matrons -- Momentum -- Three Sonnets on the Coup de Grâce -- Uphill to the Right -- Manqué -- VII -- Compounds -- Modern Painters -- A Brewing Tale -- The Lesson -- Rigoletto -- Summa -- Motes -- Un Coup de Dés -- Identity -- Beside a Cove -- The Institute -- Trade -- Notes.