Introduction 11
The Eighty-Yard Run 13
Borough of Cemeteries 26
Main Currents of American Thought 33
Second Mortgage 42
Sailor off the Bremen 46
Strawberry Ice Cream Soda 56
Welcome to the City 67
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses 78
Search Through the Streets of the City 86
The Monument 94
I Stand by Dempsey 100
God on Friday Night 106
Return to Kansas City 112
Triumph of Justice 119
No Jury Would Convict 129
The Lament of Madam Rechevsky 134
The Deputy Sheriff 140
Stop Pushing, Rocky 149
“March, March on Down the Field” 157
Free Conscience, Void of Offence 162
Weep in Years to Come 171
The City Was in Total Darkness 177
Night, Birth and Opinion 191
Preach on the Dusty Roads 199
Hamlets of the World 207
Medal from Jerusalem 220
Walking Wounded 238
Night in Algiers 255
Gunners’ Passage 259
Retreat 275
Act of Faith 284
The Man with One Arm 300
The Passion of Lance Corporal Hawkins 321
The Dry Rock 333
Noises in the City 344
The Indian in Depth of Night 355
Material Witness 360
Little Henry Irving 366
The House of Pain 374
A Year to Learn the Language 381
The Greek General 412
The Green Nude 424
The Climate of Insomnia 445
Goldilocks at Graveside 464
Mixed Doubles 486
A Wicked Story 495
Age of Reason 505
Peter Two 515
The Sunny Banks of the River Lethe 523
The Man Who Married a French Wife 536
Voyage Out, Voyage Home 556
Tip on a Dead Jockey 580
The Inhabitants of Venus 611
In the French Style 633
Then We Were Three 646
God Was Here But He left Early 674
Love on a Dark Street 694
Small Saturday 714
Pattern of Love 763
Whispers in Bedlam 772
Where All Things Wise and Fair Descend 817
Full Many a Flower 833
Circle of Light 848