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Chapters (60)
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Note to Reader
  4. Dedication
  5. I
  6. In prison
  7. The whitewashed walls
  8. The Leopard
  9. Even all night long
  10. I was working
  11. “As with rosy steps the morn”
  12. Dear Family,
  13. Canoe
  14. The Japanese garden
  15. Ghost Elephants
  16. On a Passenger Ferry
  17. Then Abraham
  18. Traveler
  19. Coyote
  20. Hawkins Stable
  21. II
  22. Who watches
  23. Time is matter here
  24. Earth and the Librarian
  25. Her car
  26. The World inside This One
  27. Poet
  28. (Two were seen leaving.)
  29. The treeless hill
  30. The just-born rabbits
  31. The valley
  32. On the bus
  33. The branches
  34. Red cloth
  35. III
  36. Don’t silence yourself, No te calles
  37. Eurydice who guides
  38. If a Person Visits Someone in a Dream, in Some Cultures the Dreamer Thanks Them
  39. I dropped a plate
  40. Desert Prison
  41. You ask,
  42. The Young Mother
  43. I thought It’s time
  44. On the CD, in the rainstorm
  45. Old love, I want to phone you
  46. Diana
  47. The older man among us
  48. He Disappeared into Complete Silence
  49. I am fain a page in the court of space
  50. IV
  51. Lucy
  52. My Work of Art
  53. Your Picture
  54. Outsider Art
  55. Notes
  56. About the Author
  57. Books by Jean Valentine
  58. Link
  59. Acknowledgments
  60. Special Thanks

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