A Marriage Book. James P. Lenfestey

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paper by Thomson-Shore.

       for Susan

       Contents

        PROLOGUE

        Who Would Believe

       PART ONE: LIE LOVE EASY

      1  Lie Love Easy

      2  Aerie and High

      3  Shared Heat

      4  Woodsmoke and Perfume

      5  To Make a Baby

      6  An Engineering Problem

      7  The Bath

      8  After She Sleeps

      9  Lunch-making

      10  Saturday Night

      11  Oh God, How Deep

      12  They Will Have to Understand

      13  Here, Take This Poem

      14  Even as the Passion Cools

      15  The Hand of God

       PART TWO: SHE WHO THINKS LIKE A FISH THINKS

      1  Self-Portrait: Newborn Father and Son

      2  She Who Thinks Like a Fish Thinks

      3  Learning to Speak Max

      4  If We Were Bears

      5  Singing the Babies to Sleep

      6  Don’t Leave Albert Einstein with the Kids!

      7  Monster at the Breakfast Table

      8  When You Are Ready, Climb

      9  Strawberries

      10  Angel at Eighth-Grade Graduation

      11  If You Become a Monk

      12  To a Young Daughter

      13  To My Daughter at Fourteen in the Aftermath of the First Full Moon

      14  Driving Lesson: To My Son at Sixteen

      15  Chores

      16  Acres of Diamonds

      17  Prayer

      18  For a Rescued Daughter, an Artist, Coming Up for Air through Water

      19  Backscratch Boy

      20  A Wild Wood

      21  Troubadour Song

      22  Morning of the Wedding

      23  Midnight Call

      24  Christmas Prayer, Santa Fe, December 25, 1993

      25  On a Youngest Daughter’s Acceptance at the College of Her Choice

      26  On Course

      27  Once in the Sixties

       PART THREE: AND STILL SHE BLOOMS

      1  In Her Garden, She

      2  Two Knives

      3  Fall Colors

      4  Departure

      5  Expedition Alone

      6  Skin Like Botticelli’s Venus

      7  My Wife Sleeping as I Drive

      8  And Still She Blooms

      9  At the Temple of Aphrodite

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