Lament for the makers -- Catechism -- Albi cathedral -- Limbo -- Let's pretend -- Anti ode to autumn -- Discuss "divine justice in The Inferno" -- Fool's gold -- The funeral director : against cremation -- The worst day of the year -- Portrait of five women and a cat -- The writing requirement -- To the poet who skipped my reading & died -- A letter to William Butler Yeats -- Package tour -- There's no place like home -- Almost an apartment in Antibes -- Evolution in Indiana -- Heaven -- As you like it -- Let's go! -- A rare bird -- Where am I? -- The Tower of Babel -- Internal exile -- Written in exile -- Falling off the wagon -- A Christmas poem -- Holy sonnet -- On being asked to contribute to the Idiot's guide to poetry -- Sailing to Pesaro -- 2001 : HAL, meet Dell -- Summer faculty enrichment grant application -- Meditation on a half-line of Shakespeare's -- Letter of recommendation -- A lesson in generosity -- Contrary elegy -- Summer diet -- Oona -- Ghosts in the kitchen -- Roots -- Happy birthday, Richard! -- The diver -- Final exercise--the rain poem -- November's advice -- Flying home -- Twenty-first century blues.