Contents -- Part I -- Keep Him There -- Working Out with the Boys -- Dr. Engel Buys the Jesus-on-a-Spring Action Figure -- Notes Composed in a Heat Wave -- Secrets of an Identity Thief -- Wreckage -- Confrontation -- Psalm: West Virginia -- How Easily He Moves -- Dr. Engel Survives the Blackout in New York City -- Rain in Pittsburgh -- Jockstrap -- Her Bright Face at the Places of Our Leaving -- Boston -- Dr. Engel Writes a Love Letter -- Part II -- The Signs of Choking -- Taking Off from the Airport / Cleveland, Ohio -- Dr. Engel Goes to the Nudist Colony -- Brad Pitt -- Boston -- Cher Uncensored -- Silent Room -- Prayer for a Doctor -- New Zealand Hand Model Stuart Poses with Kiwifruit and Has a Foot Fetish (notes from an interview) -- Valedictory -- Frank O'Hara -- The Story of Your Leaving -- Music History -- Story -- Then -- Dr. Engel Studies John Currin's Paintings -- The Last Small Thing -- Late -- Ars Poetica -- Part III -- Dark, Awful Man -- Dr. Engel Interprets Rothko's Blue, Green, Blue on Blue Ground -- Dear Matt Damon -- The Trick -- Explanation -- Snow -- Things I Could Never Tell My Mother -- Sightings -- Poem for the End of Summer -- Dr. Engel Passes a Generically Attractive Couple -- What's Required -- After Coming Out to My Sister -- After-School Special -- Dr. Engel Teaches the Poet How to Swim -- Learning the Body -- Notes Composed on a Sidewalk -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.