The Woman I Kept to Myself Book

	Family tree	3
	Saman	5
	Weeping willow	7
	Maple, oak, or elm	9
	Arborvitae	11
	Locust	13
	Last trees	15
	Intimations of mortality from a recollection in early childhood	19
	Anger & art	21
	El fotografo	23
	The red pickup	25
	Spic	27
	All-American girl	29
	Bellevue	31
	Abbot Academy	33
	By accident	35
	Vain doubts	37
	First muse	39
	Lunch hour, 1971	41
	Heartland	43
	Bad-weather friends	45
	Sisterhoods	47
	Reunion	49
	My bottom line	51
	Love portions	53
	Fights	55
	Tone	57
	Hairbands	59
	Manholes	61
	Canons	63
	My kind of woman	65
	Museo del Hombre	67
	Ars politica	69
	Naming the animals	71
	The animals review pictures of a vanished race	73
	Why don't we ever see Jesus laughing?	75
	Addison's vision	77
	Winter storm	79
	The therapist	81
	Disappearing	83
	Gaining my self back	85
	That moment	87
	Signs	89
	Deathdays	91
	All's clear	93
	Now, when I look at women	95
	At the GYN	97
	Grand baby	99
	Life lines	101
	Spring, at last!	103
	Regreso	105
	In Spanish	107
	You	109
	Leaving English	111
	Meditation	113
	Aficionados	115
	Touching bottom	117
	Cleaning ladies	119
	Tom	121
	I dream of Allen Ginsberg	123
	Famous poet, years afterward	125
	Why I teach	127
	Undercover poet	129
	Small portions	131
	"Poetry makes nothing happen"?	133
	Reading for pleasure	135
	Direct address	137
	Passing on	139
	El sereno	143
	Looking up	145
	What we ask for	147
	What was it that I wanted?	149
	Keeping watch	151
	Why I write	153
	Did I redeem myself?	155