CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Accordion Music 1
4. Cradle Language 3
5. Escape to Fiji 4
6. The Lambs Are Not for Sale 5
7. Among Barmaids 7
8. Study of Beet and Earring 9
9. Black Cat 10
10. The Arbor 11
11. I Love the Whole World 13
12. Afterglow 15
13. Pillow Talk 16
14. Januaries 18
15. Glass of Milk 19
16. Eelish 20
17. The Egg of Anything 21
18. Lamentation Once Again 22
19. Ouroboros 24
20. Fruitless 25
21. Everything 26
22. At Thirty 27
23. Testimony 29
24. Blue Morpho 30
25. Color Theory 31
26. Two Donkeys in Eternal Ra in 32
27. Marrow’s in Vogue 33
28. Black Swans 34
29. Sumptuary 35
30. Restoration 36
31. Epic Rain 38
32. Search Field 40
33. The Bee, 2050 41
34. A Brief History of the Cocktail 42
35. Explicit, 1976 43
36. Lackluster, 2002 44
37. Elk Moving, Midnight in the Great Sand Dunes 45
38. Red Lake 46
39. The News 47
40. The End 49
41. A Violence 51
42. Untitled, 1954 53
43. The Skunk 54
44. Songbird 57
45. Quiet 58
46. Another Language 60
47. The Letdown 61
48. Horizon 62
49. Arcade 63
50. The Bat 65
51. Albino Deer 67
52. Pathway 68
53. Bluebird 69
54. Pokeweed 70
55. Ecce Homo 72
56. The Green 73
57. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 75