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CONTENTS
PROLOGUE
Who Would Believe? XXX
PART ONE
Lie Love Easy XXX
Aerie and High XXX
Shared Heat XXX
Woodsmoke and Perfume XXX
To Make a Baby XXX
An Engineering Problem XXX
The Bath XXX
After She Sleeps XXX
Expedition Alone XXX
Cleaning Up after Lunch-making XXX
Saturday Night XXX
Oh God, How Deep XXX
They Will Have to Understand XXX
Here, Take This Poem XXX
Even as the Passion Cools XXX
The Hand of God XXX
PART TWO
She Who Thinks Like a Fish Thinks XXX
Singing the Babies to Sleep XXX
Learning to Speak Max XXX
If We Were Bears XXX
Speed of Love Squared XXX
Monster at the Breakfast Table XXX
When You Are Ready, Climb XXX
Strawberries XXX
Angel at Eighth Grade Graduation XXX
If You Become a Monk XXX
To a Young Daughter XXX
Advice to My Daughter in the Aftermath of the First Full Moon XXX
Driving Lesson: to a Son at Sixteen XXX
Chores XXX
Acres of Diamonds XXX
Prayer XXX
For a Rescued Daughter Coming Up for Air through Water XXX
Backscratch Boy XXX
A Wild Wood XXX
Troubadour Song XXX
Morning of the Wedding XXX
Midnight Call XXX
Christmas Prayer in Santa Fe XXX
On a Youngest Daughter's Acceptance at the College of Her Choice XXX
On Course XXX
Once in the Sixties XXX
PART III
In her garden, she XXX
Fall Colors XXX
Walking among Roots XXX
Spinning Plates XXX
Departure XXX
Swimming with Loons in Maine XXX
Skin Like Botticelli's Venus XXX
My Wife Sleeping as I Drive XXX
And Still She Blooms XXX
At the Temple of Aphrodite XXX
New New Mexico Woman XXX
Holding Henno XXX
The Poet Visits His Son and Attends a Michael Franti Concert XXX
Wild Swans near Gladstone XXX
Before the Grandchildren Arrive XXX
Watching Gus Draw XXX
Dancing at Winter Solstice XXX
End of a Good Summer XXX
A Mirror in Rome XXX
Here Is My Promise to You XXX
When I Am Eighty XXX
EPILOGUE:
A Wedding Poem XXX
Notes XXX
Acknowledgments XXX
About the author
James P. Lenfestey is a former college English instructor, alternative school administrator, marketing communications consultant, and editorial writer for the
Minneapolis Star Tribune, where he won several Page One awards for excellence. Since 2000, he has published a collection of essays, a poetry anthology, five collections of his own poems, several poetry chapbooks, and co-edited
Robert Bly in This World. As a journalist he covers education, energy policy, and climate science. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife of forty-seven years. They have four children and seven grandchildren.
