I. WAITING
Ten Thousand Foot Blue Sky ....Gail Ford
The Seed....Jackie Kay
Anything...Pamela Gross
Catholic Charities Home for Unwed Mothers...Lori Jakiela
The Natural Father...Robert Lacy
Poem For An Unknown Daughter...Ronda Slater
The Waiting Lists...Jackie Kay
Waiting for the Baby...Alison Lurie
A Couple of Kooks...Cynthia Rylant
Family Lines...George Rabasa
Ghost Mother...Marly Swick
II. PASSAGE
Giving Jewel Away...Joy Castro
Proverbs I ...Tina Cervin
Little Green...Joni Mitchell
Letter to the Adoptive Parents from the Birthmother...Carrie Etter
The Welcoming...Edward Hirsch
The Adoption...Fran Castan
Yadira...Susan Ito
The Road North...Isabel Allende
The Naturalization of Anna Lee...Janet Jerve
Standing In the Shadows...Eliza Monroe
III. GROWING
It...John Hildebidle
The Telling Part...Jackie Kay
The Boy Arden...Bernice Rendrick
Just for The Time Being...Marian Mathews Clark
Personal Testimony...Lynna Williams
Shelter...Louise Erdrich
A Perfect Life...Chitra Divakaruni
Valentine's Day...Judith Steinbergh
The Mother Who Never Was...Lisa K. Buchanan
Double LifeLine...Sasha Gabrielle Hom
Summer of My Korean Soldier...Marie G. Lee
The Letter With No Address...Judith Steinbergh
IV. IDENTITY
Black Bottom...Jackie Kay
They Said...Mi Ok Bruining
Word Problem...Amy Jane Cheney
Hunger...Julia C. Sudbury
My Stone is Sardonyx...Katharyn Howd Machan
Unborn Song...Siu Wai Anderson
Mothers...Susan Volchok
To My California Grandfather...Leanna James
V. RELATIONS
My Familiar...Mary Tallmountain
To the Woman Who Gave Him Up for Adoption...Sybil Woods-Smith
A Man and His Wife...Barbara Sperber
Mileva...Susan Ito
Do You Know What I Mean...Dan Chaon
Texas Mother...Susan Bumps
My Tattooed Granddaughter...Victor Walter
A Relative Stranger...Charles Baxter
Meeting the Birthmother...Judith Steinbergh
These Things, That Others May Call Miracles...Eileen Malone
Reunion...Susan Bumps
DNA...Susana Wessling
Pray for Angels...Gail Ford
Elba...Marly Swick
Wings and Seeds...Sandra McPherson
