The Disappearing Trick Book

I
Washing the Steps     3
My Old Friend, My Daughter, October, Wassergass     4
I blame it on him     6
I Can't Forget You     8
The Silent Archangels     10
The Eternal Present of the Ancient Chinese Poems     12
Cover Girl Sparkle     13
Flicking     14
Receiving at the Kneeling Rail     15
The Disappearing Trick     16
Pear Tart     17
II
Pitching in the Aggie     21
A Room for Jesus     22
The Right Dress     24
The starlings fill the trees     25
At the Breakfast Table with My Seventeen-Year-Old Son     26
Car on the Road, Late July, Wassergass     27
Letter to HC in the Hospital     28
Missing     30
Fireflies at the Cohoes Drive-In     32
The saints always     34
Card Game     36
III
Indulgences for the Dead     39
In the Expert Valet Clothing Shop     41
Another Lent, die purple shrouds     43
Trying to Read Han Shan     44
Limbo, Wassergass     46
Poison Sumac     47
Lucky     48
Suet     50
Bullfrog, Wassergass     51
Sequence     52
Sleep-Eaze     54
IV
The Chasm     59
Four-Way Switch     60
The Ninth Circle, Wassergass     61
I keep repeating the name of the concerto     63
Letter #3 to Carruth about the Heron     64
Hanging Tinsel     66
Snowflakes in Hell     68
Considering Aunt Bea's white Toyota Celica     70
Right after Mass     71
Inside the dim kitchen the rosary     73
Window Candle     74
V
Heaven's Gate     77
Our Son Leaves His Miniature Japanese Sand Garden Behind Because There Will Be No Room in the Dorm     79
Compensate     80
The Failed Trick     81
My Father, Setting the Line, Sunny October     82
Monitoring Impulses     83
Sister Aquinas, Questioning     85
Peaches in Pennsylvania Late August     86
What does a man who's 55 say     87
Window of Our Soul     88
Dinner with My Son, Casey Lynn's Diner, Hellertown     90