CHILDREN OF THE NEW CRUSADE. It is raining -- The little towns of West Texas -- Texas water tastes like turpentine -- In search of history -- At the round earth’s imagined corners -- Politics last summer -- Summer’s children -- Miranda of the sorrows -- 6 p.m. -- Destination -- Borderland -- Mother of God -- Downfall enters -- Colin Powell is in Cairo/Madeleine Albright to join think tank -- Wee hour -- Chicago -- Yes Miss Emily -- One morning -- The offering -- Veteran -- THE POPE AND THE CONTORTIONIST. South paradise -- Letter from Cuernavaca -- The cartography of loneliness -- Dichos -- Here in Mexico -- Here in Ecuador -- The wrong room -- King of roses -- Lugubrious -- The creep -- Getting on -- A Cinquain and the moon -- Therapy session -- The golden juice -- SUBURBAN LIFE AS WE KNOW IT. The examined life -- The glass slipper -- The hole -- If I were a dog -- The farm across the road -- Brief communications from my widowed mother -- Let me tell the one about -- Red and Ed and Clyde -- Canes -- Eros Turannos, Fred and Jo -- Catechism when the kingdom is in danger -- Runaway -- Those who name birds -- Green pastures -- The gates of paradise -- Lost languages -- Light -- Interview before departure -- Confetti -- Home place -- Glen Canyon on the Colorado (1991).