From the Book - First edition.
Part One: No age is empty --
How parents ever get together anyway --
It was lace on a life to have a mother --
Union Boulevard, St. Louis --
Posing for pictures at two --
How deep was the silence there? --
Aziz, under the St. Louis Arch --
How will the child ever leave this house? --
What was the secret in your house? --
History of getting older --
'Keep up your joyous practices' --
Everything planted was a calm --
Part Two: Sometimes we need a bigger family. Nina --
And what about the mothers who... --
Write a seven word biography right now --
It's Sunday and everyone is hungry --
Mom's poem to dandelions in the Land of the Midnight Sun, Alaska --
That time when everything was Scotland --
My mom's hunger for news --
My mom serves tea to her robbers --
Things we don't want to remember --
Sign on the wall at San Francisco Zen Center: Don't waste this life! --
Miriam at the blue barn --
Veiled Miriam Naomi leaves the room --
Before I end this speech --
The day the big tree came down --
You'll never be lonely now --
The President writes you back --
All the places we hadn't gone yet --
The mail goes on and on --
Everyone looks familiar now --
