Acknowledgments
Title Page

I. King David

King David's Psalms
The Accountant's Blues
Lydia of Crete
Butcher, Baker, and Candle Maker
The Pharaoh's Army
Rabbi Simon's Coins
How I Lost My Horse
Mr. Potato Head
Old MacDonald's Farm
King Falstaff
Metaphysics
Bruno's Parrot
ABC
Psalm CCXXVII
Lost Page From Shackleton's Journal
Mr. Blomquist's Rapture
The Plum Boy
The Red Grapes
The Fool's Fate
The Tower of Babel
Chicken Life
Professor Blomquist's Theory
Bathsheba

II. Loose Change

Chewing Time
Oh, Bathsheba
"Diver Down"
Loose Change
Not on a Clamshell
Fresh Mint
"O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast"
Poetry Can Change the World
"My God! It's Hard Not to be Impatient"
How Long the Riverran
What Never Happened

III. Life With Atropos

Life With Atropos, the Inexorable
The Acropolis Diner
The Burial Problem
When First We Met
The Discovery of Atlantis
Tales From the Pony Express
38th St. Apartment
Master, Man, and Woman
The Plough Horse's Morning
Rabbi Simon's Dream
Balinese Ritual
Jonah Overboard
Odin's Initiation
The Turtle's Back
Office Building
The Old Malady Returns
Brief History of My People
The Birdwatcher's Dilemma
When First We Met, Part II
The Mule Eats the Alphabet
Long After Nero Fiddled