V. 1. Fiction: Three for the bobcat -- Long drop at the Rusty Dime -- Poetry: Spring's a place -- Snow in the city -- Wind -- The modern metal gordian knot -- Idle sun -- The knob -- A collar -- V. 2. Fiction: The steamist -- The forty rod court -- The brief -- Cosmos -- Paper -- The future -- Suddenly something -- Memory -- Music channel -- Lost weekend -- Our song -- Time -- Sonnet on major milestones -- Political promise -- Departmental -- The coffin table of the squabbling commissioners -- Cyclic -- Idle rhymes -- Time's curve -- Angles -- V. 3: Fiction: Half life -- The hacker's duplicate -- New blue truck -- Metric-I -- Trinity -- Mud -- Little victories -- ER -- V. 4: Nonfiction: Tom Brown's tale of a tub and selected works of Brown -- Jonathan Swift's literary indebtedness to Tom Brown -- Re-election obsession -- From here to there -- Time without dimension -- To reproach