From the Book - First edition.
Messages from everywhere --
Please describe how you became a writer --
Way they talk about art --
Living with mistakes -- Boy and Mom at the Nutcracker ballet --
Necessity is only 8 miles away --
Because of libraries we can say these things --
Little boys running on the dock --
How far is it to the land we left? --
My father and the figtree --
For Mohammed Zeid of Garza, age 15 --
Everything in our world did not seem to fit --
Pictures from the occupied territories --
My grandmother in the stars --
It is not a game, it was never a game --
What kind of fool am I? --
Every day was your birthday --
At Portales, New Mexico --
I still have everything you gave me --
If the shoe doesn't fit --
Valentine for Ernest Mann --
Young poets of Winnipeg --
Mom gives away your ties --
Few questions for Bashar Assad --
What is supposed to happen --
You are your own state department --
Exotic animals, book for children --
Ted Kooser is my president --
No one thinks of Tegucigalpa --
Problems with the story --
Only pine nuts can stop a war --
On doubt and bad reviews --
World of the future, we thirsted --
Do not touch the puffins --
Montana before breakfast --
Altar of the steaming cup --
Blue river of Florida light --
