Understanding Fiction: Poems, 1986-1996 Book

	Acknowledgments
1	Understanding Fiction
	Understanding Fiction	3
	Frank Amos and the Way Things Work	5
	Free Throw	8
	An Instant on the Time Line	10
	Flying over Peoria	11
	Within a Stone's Throw of Greatness	13
	In Another's Hands	14
	Elevator Music	15
	After a Movie	16
	Night Search for Lost Dog	18
	Rawhide	20
	A Voltage Spike	21
	An Ending	23
2	Five Translations
	Who Has Been Exalted by Vasily Kazantsev	27
	The Sounds by Vasily Kazantsev	28
	Recruits by Moshe Dor	29
	Good Friday by Kyril Kadiski	30
	The Writing Life by Vladimir Sokolov	31
3	Five Occasions
	For Char Gardner, Preparing to Work Her Art	35
	Reader in a High Place, Dreaming	37
	Centennial	39
	Introduction to a Reading	40
	At a Quaker Wedding	42
4	Master of None
	At the Grave of E. A. Robinson	45
	Afternoons with a Boomerang	46
	Black-and-White Photograph: Night Fisherman on Riverbank	49
	Spontaneous Generation	50
	At South Fork Cemetery	51
	In Memory of Brother Dave Gardner	52
	Another Postponement of Destruction	54
	A Horseshoe to Hang Over the Door	55
	For William Stafford	56
	Popped Balloon	57
	Underpass	58
	Unfolded Maps	60
	Master of None	62