Cover; Contents; I: The Night Guard at the Wilberforce Hotel; Pardon and Amnesty; Almost; In Vino Veritas; From Here to There; Epithalamion in a Minor Key; At Advent's End; II: This First Hot Saturday in May; A Late Apology; Provinces; Teaching The Merchant of Venice; The Hills, Beautiful Hills; Insomnia at Forty-Six; Easter Sundays; III: Labor Day; The Novelist to His Characters; Someone Is Burning Leaves; Four Voices for the Afterlife; Mare Cognitum; Now: A Benediction; Acknowledgments