The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing Book

	75, and counting	1
	Where does your music come from?	7
	The rabbi	24
	The year of the child (for my grandson)	25
	Aunt Jemima of the ocean waves	26
	Aunt Mary	29
	The catalpa	30
	The gift	30
	Horror movie	32
	The lost photograph	34
	The poppy	36
	Choices	37
	Animals	39
	A Byzantine place	39
	Poem	40
	Arioso Dolente	41
	John Keats, 1821-1950	43
	Photograph of my mother sitting on the steps	44
	Colors passing through us	45
	Summer masquerades	47
	Carib's leap	63
	The ladybugs	67
	Swimming lessons	68
	Transparent like the air	70
	To Dorothy on her exclusion from the Guinness Book of World Records	72
	Old men pitching horseshoes	72
	At Paestum	73
	In the backyard	74
	Narcissus	75
	Bridging	76
	Hazard response	85
	November of the plague year	85
	Leonardo as anatomist, repeatedly	87
	Unyieldingly present	88
	The needle	90
	Happiness	90
	Three small oranges	91
	Redundancies	92
	SmackDown!	93
	On the origin of Blind-boy Lilikoi	94
	"Nelson in Nighttown"	96
	Punishment	108
	Terra form	119
	Black dress	130
	Clown	131
	Sharking	133
	Diorama notebook	143
	The cousin in the backyard	145
	Givers and takers	157
	The evening concert	159
	My government	159
	Starting with that time	161
	The old woman and her thief	163
	Lie big	178
	A lovely night	186
	Balance	190
	A rock a fish	190
	Priscilla the Cambodian	192