Introduction -- High-heeled shoes, a memoir -- Seventeen syllables -- Legend of Miss Sasagawara -- Wilshire bus -- Brown house -- Yoneko's earthquake -- Morning rain -- Epithalmium -- Las Vegas Charley -- Life among the oil fields, a memoir -- Eskimo connection -- My father can beat Muhammad Ali -- Underground lady -- A day in Little Tokyo -- Reading and writing -- Preface to the revised and expanded edition -- Death rides the rails to Poston -- Eucalyptus -- A fire in Fontana -- Florentine Gardens.