The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body Book

	A Physics of Sudden Light	1
	Day of the Refugios	5
	The Birdman of Nogales	7
	The Weekly Morning Meeting of the Town's Civic Band	10
	A Simple Thing to Know	12
	Mr. Palomino Walks By Again	14
	At the Street Parties for the 16 de septiembre, Nogales, Mexico, 1962	16
	Los voladores de Papantla	18
	Appointment Houses	20
	Kid Hielero	23
	Refugio's Hair	26
	Small Risings	31
	Signal Right	32
	French Postales	34
	In Second Grade Miss Lee I Promised Never to Forget You and I Never Did	37
	Eating Potato Chips in Middle Age	38
	The Venus Trombones	39
	My Chili	41
	In My Hurry	49
	The Nipplebutton	51
	A Small Motor	53
	The Cities inside Us	54
	What We've Done to Each Other	55
	The Impossible Still-Life	59
	Oranges in a Tree	60
	A Yellow Leaf	62
	The Fall of the Bears	63
	The Gathering Evening	65
	Gray Dogs	66
	Common Crows in a Winter Tree	68
	My Coyote	70
	What Happened to Me	72
	Under Mesquite Trees in the Sun	73
	Rabbits and Fire	74
	The Dog inside Mine	76
	Chinese Food in the Fifties	79
	Summers, About 1959	82
	In the Strong Hold of Her Thin Arms	83
	A September Death	84
	If I Leave You	85
	Cups of Frothed Chocolate	90
	The Lemon Kind of Baseball	92
	Domingo Limon	94
	Holding My Shirts	98
	Writing from Memory	100
	Some Extensions on the Sovereignty of Science	102
	Notes	105
	About the Author	107