Table of Contents: MANDOLIN The Event - Variation on Pain - Jiving - Straw Hat - Courtship - Refrain - Variation on Guilt - Nothing Down - The Zeppelin Factory - Under the Viaduct, 1932 - Lightnin' Blues - Compendium - Definition in the Face of Unnamed Fury - Aircraft - Aurora Borealis - Variation on Gaining a Son - One Volume Missing - The Charm - Gospel - Roast Possum - The Stroke - The Satisfaction Coal Company - Thomas at the Wheel CANARY IN BLOOM Taking in Wash - Magic - Courtship, Diligence - Promises - Dusting - A Hill of Beans - Weathering Out - Motherhood - Anniversary - The House on Bishop Street - Daystar - Obedience - The Great Palaces of Versailles - Pomade - Headdress - Sunday Greens - Recovery - Nightmare - Wingfoot Lake - Company - The Oriental Ballerina Chronology |
Thomas and Beulah
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