Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vi
4. Part I: Ilk
5. Kinglet 1
6. Fledgling 4
7. His Kite 5
8. Paper Plane 6
9. The Me 7
10. Shiba Onko 8
11. Sarge 9
12. Phantom 10
13. Just This Train 11
14. Saturn 12
15. The Roach 13
16. Ornithology 14
17. Nest 15
18. Touching the Animal 16
19. Aubade 17
20. The Bumblebee 18
21. Mind Over Matter 19
22. Snails 20
23. Cicadas 21
24. Heirloom 22
25. Pie Case 23
26. Microscope 24
27. Wind 25
28. Part II: Clay
29. Floaters 29
30. Going the Distance 30
31. It So 31
32. Then One Morning 32
33. Love and Life 33
34. Grocery Cart 34
35. Riddle 35
36. Cesium-137 36
37. Frogman 37
38. What Began 38
39. Seizure 39
40. Fireflies 40
41. At the War Memorial 41
42. Crossword 42
43. Oxblood 43
44. Gravity 44
45. The Will 45
46. Who Knew 46
47. The Widower 47
48. Grief 48
49. Pumice 49
50. Instead 50
51. When You Come to Lethe 51
52. Part III: Kiln
53. Sonata 55
54. The Surgeon and the Poet 56
55. Scabsong 57
56. Apology to My Left Hand 58
57. Jesus and the Splinter 59
58. Lincoln 60
59. Leaving the Museum 61
60. After Yoshitoshi 62
61. Napoleon’s Bath 63
62. Saint-Remy Asylum 64
63. O 65
64. Y 66
65. Ask 67
66. Burning the Book 68
67. Ginkgo 69
68. Vespers 70
69. Wrestling the Angel 71
70. The Spider 72
71. Butterfly 73
72. Acknowledgments 75
73. About the Author 77