A Physics of Sudden Light -- Day of the Refugios -- The Birdman of Nogales -- The Weekly Morning Meeting of the Town's Civic Band -- A Simple Thing to Know -- Mr. Palomino Walks By Again -- At the Street Parties for the 16 de septiembre, Nogales, Mexico, 1962 -- Los voladores de Papantla -- Appointment Houses -- Kid Hielero -- Refugio's Hair -- Small Risings -- Signal Right -- French Postales -- In Second Grade Miss Lee I Promised Never to Forget You and I Never Did -- Eating Potato Chips in Middle Age -- The Venus Trombones -- My Chili -- In My Hurry -- The Nipplebutton -- A Small Motor -- The Cities inside Us -- What We've Done to Each Other -- The Impossible Still-Life -- Oranges in a Tree -- A Yellow Leaf -- The Fall of the Bears -- The Gathering Evening -- Gray Dogs -- Common Crows in a Winter Tree -- My Coyote -- What Happened to Me -- Under Mesquite Trees in the Sun -- Rabbits and Fire -- The Dog inside Mine -- Chinese Food in the Fifties -- Summers, About 1959 -- In the Strong Hold of Her Thin Arms -- A September Death -- If I Leave You -- Cups of Frothed Chocolate -- The Lemon Kind of Baseball -- Domingo Limon -- Holding My Shirts -- Writing from Memory -- Some Extensions on the Sovereignty of Science