TheToil and Grace   •  13
Nickel Mines, PA, Oct. 2nd, 2006   •  15
Diminished   •  18
Things That Matter   •  20
Rejection by Mail   •  22
Economic Development   •  24
What Stays   •  26
Picture Day—Grade Two   •  28
Escapes   •  30
Into Forever   •  32
Forgiveness   •  33
What I Stole   •  36
Grade Eight   •  38
Saving Maynard   •  40
The Mennonite Relief Sale   •  42
Easter Sunday   •  44
What’s in the Blood   •  46
Ways of Being   •  49
Light Waking   •  51
Beliefs   •  53
Resurrection   •  55
Beginnings   •  56
Aunt Margaret’s Wedding Gift   •  59
On Trying to Name One Good Kiss   •  61
Afternoon Writing   •  62
Work Site   •  64
What I Don’t Want to See   •  65
Bodies . . . The Exhibition   •  66
Wanting to Sing Hymns   •  70
Patches called Philippi   •  72
Grantsville Stockyards   •  76
The Dirt Road   •  79
Laughing Jenny and the Cowboy   •  81
A Hard Cold Morning   •  83
In Sago   •  87
The House   •  90
Intrusion   •  91
Trying to Stay   •  93
Another Day   •  95
Mother from Paradise   •  97
Shearing   •  100
Spirit Friends   •  103
Heaven and Earth   •  105
Yearnings   •  107
Butchers   •  110

Credits     113
The Author     115