Contents

Chapbook (Poet)

The chapbook reading, ordered as it might be for a printed collection, comprises three lobes:

• Golden Anniversary -- a family album, containing stories of the poet's parents.
• Say Goodbye -- a sequence of poems concerning the death of the poet's parents.
• He Still Thinks -- in which the poet meditates upon death and necessity.

Golden Anniversary	Say Goodbye	He Still Thinks
The Button Golden Anniversary March 22, 1954 When the Call Came She's Still Mad... 1935 If He Came Home	When They Died Mortality, Thy Name Is Daddy My Father Loved His Death Ashes (Feeding My Son,) My Father Behind Me His Portrait Speaks The Impatience of the Living Peopling Heaven 1950 This House Watching My Mother's Brain Scan Take Her Say Goodbye	Elegy To Bring Rain on a Land Where No Man Is Lenten Meditation At the AIDS Concert This Is Where They Leave Us The Fish He Still Thinks

Chronology (Historian)

In the chronology, the texts are arranged according to the order in which the events related took place.

1. 1935
2. 1950
3. March 22, 1954
4. If He Came Home
5. His Portrait Speaks
6. The Fish
7. My Father Loved His Death
8. (Feeding My Son,) My Father Behind Me
9. Mortality, Thy Name Is Daddy
10. The Button
11. Golden Anniversary
12. When the Call Came
13. She's Still Mad...
14. Ashes
15. The Impatience of the Living
16. Peopling Heaven
17. This House
18. Watching My Mother's Brain Scan
19. Take Her
20. When They Died
21. To Bring Rain...
22. Lenten Meditation
23. This Is Where They Leave Us
24. He Still Thinks
25. Say Goodbye

Characters (Novelist)

The characters reading groups texts according to the principal persons described.

Father

• March 22, 1954
• If He Came Home
• His Portrait Speaks
• Mortality, Thy Name Is Daddy
• The Button
• Golden Anniversary
• My Father Loved His Death
• Ashes
• When They Died (1)
• The Impatience of the Living
• Peopling Heaven
• Say Goodbye

Mother

• 1935
• 1950
• If He Came Home
• The Button
• Golden Anniversary
• When the Call Came
• She's Still Mad...
• This House
• Watching My Mother's Brain Scan
• Take Her
• When They Died (2)
• The Impatience of the Living
• Peopling Heaven
• Say Goodbye

Son

• The Fish
• (Feeding My Son,) My Father Behind Me
• Mortality, Thy Name Is Daddy
• The Impatience of the Living
• Peopling Heaven
• This House
• Watching My Mother's Brain Scan
• When They Died
• Say Goodbye