Contents
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| Illustrations and Photographs | xv |
| Introduction | xvii |
| Part I/Innocence: The Jukebox Starts to Play | 1 |
| The Vase | 4 |
| Yellow Butterfly Dress | 6 |
| Black and White | 10 |
| 1959 | 12 |
| 1. Good Humor | 12 |
| 2. Potsy | 14 |
| 3. Planes | 15 |
| 4. Propellers | 17 |
| Credo | 18 |
| I Guess It Was Love | 25 |
| Soldier Boy | 25 |
| Birthday Doll | 33 |
| The Cerebral Jukebox | 38 |
| Part 2/Conflicts | 45 |
| Civil War | 47 |
| Let's Get It On | 52 |
| Fallen | 58 |
| Harlem on My Mind | 59 |
| Skin | 60 |
| Take the A Train | 62 |
| Hail Mary | 64 |
| Theft | 65 |
| Flaws | 67 |
| Dyre Avenue Days | 69 |
| Part 3/Beyond the Pale | 71 |
| Birthing at Bocuse | 74 |
| Who Have Become Crows | 81 |
| Moon Maggot | 84 |
| Part 4/Footprints | 87 |
| Needles | 89 |
| The Horrible End of Roseann Quinn | 91 |
| Love Song for Liviu Librescu | 94 |
| The Bog Man | 98 |
| Freddy Osborn, Kansas City, 1936 | 106 |
| Makeover | 108 |
| Part 5/From the Observatory | 113 |
| Evolution | 115 |
| Lunacy | 116 |
| Yellow Jell-O | 118 |
| Atlas | 119 |
| Fall | 120 |
| Married Life | 121 |
| Cats Took Over My House | 122 |
| The Cricket Convention | 125 |
| Before the First Frost | 128 |
| What the Birds Know | 130 |
| Couples | 132 |
| Tanglewood | 133 |
| Shadows | 135 |
| Labels | 138 |
| Chains | 140 |
| Love: Lost and Found | 141 |
| Stones | 145 |
| Part 6/New York at the Turn of the Century | 147 |
| Soul Food | 150 |
| The Lake | 151 |
| Slice of Life | 154 |
| On Leaves | 156 |
| First Med | 158 |
| Tina, Tina, Proud and Free | 160 |
| 9/11 Lamentations | 163 |
| Reflections on Broken Glass | 164 |
| What I Heard on the Morning News | 166 |
| Woof and Warp | 168 |
| Pine Barren | 169 |
| Part 7/The Last Song | 171 |
| Connecting the Dots | 173 |
| 1. Seeing Stars | 173 |
| 2. John Cameron Swayze | 174 |
| 3. Shooting Stars | 176 |
| 4. The Black Box | 177 |