My Mother's Body Book

	What Remains	1
	They inhabit me	3
	The Annuity	6
	Waking one afternoon in my best dress	9
	Out of the rubbish	11
	Of pumpkins and ghosts I sing	14
	Unbuttoning	16
	The sun and the moon in the morning sky of Charlotte	18
	Putting the good things away	20
	The Crunch	23
	What remains	24
	My mother's body	26
	The Chuppah	33
	Witnessing a wedding	35
	Touch tones	37
	The place where everything changed	38
	What Makes It Good?	40
	Why marry at all?	42
	We Come Together	44
	Every leaf is a mouth	46
	The Wine	47
	The Chuppah	49
	How we make nice	51
	House-keeping	52
	Return of the prodigal darling	54
	Down	56
	House built of breath	58
	The infidelity of sleep	59
	Nailing up the mezuzah	61
	Chiaroscuro	63
	The good go down	65
	Homage to Lucille, Dr. Lord-Heinstein	69
	Where is my half-used tube of Tom's fennel toothpaste tonight?	71
	Your cats are your children	72
	Mr. Big	74
	The maternal instinct at work	76
	Magic mama	78
	Nothing more will happen	80
	Blue Tuesday in August	81
	The Disinherited	82
	Cold head, cold heart	84
	Deferral	85
	Breaking out	86
	Paper birds	88
	Listening to a speech	89
	Making a will	91
	Still life	93
	From HoJo's to Mr. Softee	94
	The longings of women	95
	Out of sight	96
	Does the light fail us, or do we fail the light?	98
	Underrated Pleasures	105
	Building is taming	107
	Cowering in a corner	109
	The Listmaker	110
	Going into town in the storm	112
	The clumsy season	114
	Silk confetti	116
	And whose creature am I?	117
	In praise of gazebos	118
	The Faithless	120
	If I had been called Sabrina or Ann, she said	122
	The night the moon got drunk	123
	Sweet ambush	124
	The high arch of summer	126
	What we fail to notice	127
	Tashlich	128
	This small and intimate place	130
	How grey, how wet, how cold	133
	Deer couchant	135
	Peaches in November	136
	Six underrated pleasures	137
1	Folding sheets	137
2	Picking pole beans	137
3	Taking a hot bath	138
4	Sleeping with cats	139
5	Planting bulbs	141
6	Canning	142