Adjusting to the Light Book

	Rodin: The Cathedral	1
	During a Funeral Service The Mind of the Young Preacher Wanders Again	2
	Adjusting to the Light	3
	A Day in the Death	4
	On Not Writing a Love Poem	5
	Excuse Me	6
	To a Friend, an Unhappy Poet	7
	A Short History of the Game	8
	The Death of Chet Baker	9
	Things	11
	During the Hymn before the Christmas Sermon The Mind of the Young Preacher Wanders Again	12
	Morning at the Zagorsk Monastery outside Moscow	13
	Architecture of the American Mind	15
	The Six Moral Virtues	16
	Pulling Back	17
	When I Am Dead, My Dearest	18
	Coping	19
	Hello. I'll Bet You Don't Know Who This Is	20
	Despairing of Understanding We Fall into Decadence	21
	ICU: Space/Time in the Waiting Room	22
	I Can Only Stay for Fifteen Minutes	23
	Closing the House	24
	Walking after Supper	25
	Learning Russian	26
	The Groom Kisses the Bride And the Mind of the Young Preacher Wanders Again	27
	Rubrics
	Glasnost: Moscow, the Arbat	28
	On Hearing Some Black Students Flip Epithets At Asian Students Trying to Throw a Football	28
	Six O'clock, the Airport in Athens	28
	Mise en Scene	29
	Running out of Anything to Say	29
	Home from the Grave to News of War and Madness	29
	A Poem for Flannery but Not the One I Promised	30
	Flesh	30
	In Medias Res	30
	On Seeing a Photograph by Matthew Brady	31
	The Dead in War	31
	Sum, Es, Est	31
	The Stripper	32
	Out of a Clear Sky	35
	Folding His USA Today He Makes His Point in the Blue Star Cafe	37
	The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina	38
	She Prays for Her Husband, the Good Pastor Lying on His Deathbed at Last	40
	The Serial Murderer Says Something to the Priest	41
	The Head of the Wandering Family Speaks of His Brother	42
	The Art Photographer Puts His Model at Ease	43
	Hello	46
	A Question of Time	47
	The Curator	48