| From My Grandmother's Bedside |
| Clutter Love |
| Preface |
| Jeweled Dream |
| California Wine |
| Escalator Confusion |
| Homecoming |
| Fans |
| Time |
| Neighborhood I |
| Flower Talk |
| Bedding |
| The News |
| Neighborhood II |
| Bicycles |
| The House Next Door |
| The Postwar Garden |
| The History Contained in Animals |
| Labor |
| Shopping |
| Fuel Drama |
| Conversation |
| Death and Embarrassment |
| Death and Shame |
| Kinds of Ending |
| Garbage |
| Reason and Dementia |
| Education |
| Funeral Gear I: Ford Motor Co. |
| Funeral Gear II: Girls |
| Funeral Gear III: Portolets and Poetry |
| Ghosts |
| Temples and Social Realism |
| Complications |
| Poised before History |
| Losing Time |
| Bookmarks |
| Bonds Strange and Familiar |
| Grandmas I |
| New Good-Night |
| Night Journey |
| The Imagination of Teachers |
| Earthquakes and Emancipation |
| Bus Tour |
| Morning Sleep |
| Afternoon Awakening |
| Doctor's Visit |
| Going to the Library |
| Whispers |
| Soap |
| Dead Baby |
| Absence |
| Voice and Limb |
| Peace and Banality |
| Bugs |
| City of Ravens |
| Unfinished Assignment: on Historical Responsibility |
| Anniversary |
| "Peace and Prosperity" |
| Guilty Touch |
| Pronouns and the Person |
| Ethnic Clothing |
| Free Trade I |
| Free Trade II: Send the Enola Gay Once More |
| Fearful Sorrow |
| Sounds and Gestures |
| War and Memory |
| Climate Control |
| Horror |
| Grandmas II |
| Auntie |
| Useful Mobility |
| Postwar History I |
| Forbidden Words |
| Grown-Up Homecoming |
| Sweets |
| Civilization |
| And Bombs |
| Laundry |
| One A.M. |
| Postwar History II |
| Haircut in Bed |
| Afternoon before Fall |
| Dialogue |
| Kinds of Talk I |
| Kinds of Talk II |
| Kinds of Talk III |
| Mistake |
| Scales |
| Friend Unknown |
| Mystery |
| The Sayable |
| Science in Society |
| Fragrance Preserved |
| Engineering |
| Rulers |
| It Isn't About Money |
| But It is |
| Divine Wind: the Special Attack Corps |
| Mourning, for the Future? |
 | August 15, 1995 (I) |
| August 15, 1995 (II) |
| The Lightness and Heaviness of Words |
| Language Lesson |
| Birthday Party |
| Strategy |
| The expressivity of Extremities |
| Night Sounds |
| Trading Confessions |
| Apology and Forgiveness |
| Anniversaries for Unremembering |
| I Missed You from the Beginning |
| Summer Manliness |
| Summer Wind |
| Metropolitan Dog Life |
| Bread and Class |
| Morning |
| Epilogue Toward an Unknown Ending |
| One Year Later |
| Notes |
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