First gestures -- Freight -- The sun lover -- Sinning -- Flu -- Ghost -- Pass -- Bulbs -- Onion, fruit of grace -- The knowledge of good and evil -- Eve's striptease -- Mother love -- The secrets of marriage -- Storm -- Word to measure space -- Definition: to fix -- Sixth anniversary -- The new place -- Wife of a resident alien -- Lesson of hard-shelled creatures -- Living large -- Before dawn in October -- Our last neighborhood in Brooklyn -- Loud -- Leaving Brooklyn -- The use of allusion -- Map of the known world -- July, 1969 -- Ladies night at the Turkish and Russian baths -- Coat of a visiting nurse -- Lymphoma -- Flammable skirts recalled -- Answer -- Why I ran -- To honor the dead -- How it looks from South Brooklyn -- House guest confession -- Brooklyn Bridge showing painters on suspenders -- The streak -- Migraines -- Learning the names -- How my father learned English -- Letter to Timothy Russell from Lewisburg -- Black dress -- Eve's curse -- Thinking of certain Mennonite women -- Boustrophedon -- First bird -- Flying lesson.