From the Book - First edition.
Part One: No age is empty
How parents ever get together anyway
It was lace on a life to have a mother
Union Boulevard, St. Louis
Posing for pictures at two
How deep was the silence there?
Aziz, under the St. Louis Arch
How will the child ever leave this house?
What was the secret in your house?
'Keep up your joyous practices'
Everything planted was a calm
Part Two: Sometimes we need a bigger family. Nina
And what about the mothers who...
Write a seven word biography right now
It's Sunday and everyone is hungry
Mom's poem to dandelions in the Land of the Midnight Sun, Alaska
That time when everything was Scotland
My mom serves tea to her robbers
Things we don't want to remember
Sign on the wall at San Francisco Zen Center: Don't waste this life!
Veiled Miriam Naomi leaves the room
The day the big tree came down
You'll never be lonely now
The President writes you back
All the places we hadn't gone yet
Everyone looks familiar now
