Connecting Flights.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Taking Off -- Cradle Song -- Because She Sees Summer with Her Feet -- Fanny -- Kore -- Once and Sixteen -- A First Rose on Parkville Avenue -- Coney Island Afternoon -- Oliver Hill Hotel: 1932 -- Red Lunch Basket -- Young Fisher King -- Home Schooling -- The Chance Meeting -- Notes on a Thursday Feast -- Closely Watched Trains -- Passages and Turbulence -- Double Portrait with Wineglass -- A Grandson Sends a Poem -- World's Fair -- Death of a Son Before His Time -- Adam -- A Last Reading -- Victories -- War Story -- Forty and Eight: 1943 -- Two Poets and a Physician: 1918 -- At a Jerusalem Market -- On the Carpentry of Ants -- Medea in Corinth -- The Unraveling -- The Red Cord -- Black Milk -- Words and Arrows -- Fertile Crescent -- Babel -- Homeward -- Retrieving a Frozen Newspaper -- Beach House in Late August -- Address Book -- The Account -- A Morning Foot -- Time's Fool -- And Now Eighty -- Random Thoughts on a Birthday Late -- Barter: 1944 -- Brief Truance -- My Greenhorn -- A Wait in the Garden -- Night Visit -- Seachange -- Time Entering -- At LaGuardia Airport -- Acknowledgments -- Endnotes.

Connects childhood with youth, youth with maturity, and maturity with age and wisdom. This work also connects generation with generation, and person with person.

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