Cover -- Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- One: Cold Sun -- True Stories about Color -- At the Lifeboat Races -- Speculation in Dark Air Smoking -- Art of a Cold Sun -- Anointing the Unprepared -- Le Corps Bleu -- At Les Deux Magots Restaurant -- Hide and Seek -- Elizabeth Goose in Autumn -- South of Spain -- Long Story Short -- To the Dogs -- Notes for the Interior Escape -- The Rainy Season Arrivesin Southern Kyushu -- Clearances -- Skibbereen Deeds -- North Beach Sweet -- Bugatti's Zoo -- The Unsung Song of Harry Duffy -- Crawfordsville Confidential -- The Seconds -- The Seconds -- Codes toward an Incidental City -- 1. In Praise of Invisibility -- 2. Chronicle of Choices -- 3. City without Archipelago -- 4. Tales of the Weather -- 5. Used News -- 6. Dispensations for anAfternoon Rain -- 7. Darkening Probabilities -- 8. Moon Snow -- 9. The Story of Minus -- 10. Marginal Extravaganzas -- 11. Homing -- 12. Facts about Unlucky Times -- 13. Opus Focus -- 14. Occupant -- 15. Unclaimed Freight -- 16. River through the City -- 17. At the Club Hula -- 18. Midnight Symphonies -- 19. High on the Flats -- 20. Holed Up in the Old Hotel -- 21. Apparitions, Approximations,Appearances -- 22. At the Corner Bar at the End ofIdle Street -- 23. A Guide to Brief Encounters -- 24. Overnight -- 25. Metro Retro -- 26. An Oral History of the East Side -- 27. The Arrangements -- 28. Trespasses -- 29. Doubleheader: A Sonnet -- 30. Jackhammer Blues -- 31. Exhumations, Evictions,Evacuations -- 32. At the Bus Station -- 33. Love in the Solarium -- 34. Civil Spaces -- 35. Sidedoor -- 36. Lunch on a Steel Beam -- 37. Poltroons and Gimcracks -- 38. Manholes -- 39. Fanfare for a Cocktail -- 40. Cleaning the Statues.