Calling the characters -- Unpainted still life -- Bridget's confession -- The famous poet -- Daily news -- Oral history -- Some things should never be written down -- An angel considers the naming of meat -- Tall man in a small place -- Learning by heart -- Lovely Rosa, crazy Rosa -- An easy chair -- Auction block -- Shoes -- Raphael's goblet -- The mirror -- Walking with glass -- Flying carpet -- Legend of the tangerine -- A letter from ferns in their new world -- The monastery kitchen -- The morning of the feast -- At the foundry -- Still life with Walt Whitman -- Visitation from the Eakins Press -- The path not taken -- Losing compass -- Bird land -- Tree house -- Deer in winter -- The February bee -- The vanity of the dragonfly -- Horseshoe crab -- A red-tailed hawk at home in the world -- The disguise -- The sea at Truro -- The water seamstress -- The wave has no hands -- Honor the waves -- The live sea scrolls -- No wonder -- Bottom's dream -- Elementals -- Song for two voices -- Ian's angels -- The dream speaks -- Shedding the human -- Advice to a traveler -- Grave.