Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. The Lesser Fields
4. Economy of Winter 3
5. Ontogeny 4
6. With Shut Eyes What My Mind Sees Does Not Belong to Me 5
7. Icicles Tine Barnward from the Barn’s Shallow Eave 7
8. I Pack Her Suitcase with Sticks, Light the Tinder, and Shut the Lid 9
9. Illuminated Face 10
10. Near the Creek Emptied of Water 11
11. Dusk by Flame 12
12. Allies 13
13. Lovemaking in America 14
14. Secrets Objects Share 15
15. Economy of Winter 2 16
16. People Live Here 17
17. The Lesser Fields 19
18. November Deaths
19. The Snow Uncut Is a Field of Orphans 23
20. She Drops Each Suture from Her Stomach into the Vase on Her Bedside Table 24
21. A Boy Is Kicking the Stomach of a Dog 25
22. From a Sheet of Yellow Paper I Cut Bolts of Lightning 26
23. If Not a Passage Already Dangerous Then None This Hour Feral with Salt and Rockfish Swiveling Wakes at the Water’s Surface as the Strait Swells in the Storm 27
24. The Lark’s Call Is Smaller than the Field 28
25. Lives
26. Lives of Daughter 31
27. Lives of Greta 32
28. Lives of Tree 34
29. Lives of Name 35
30. Lives of Furrow 36
31. Lives of Son 37
32. Lives of Empire 38
33. Lives of West 39
34. Lives of Odin 40
35. Lives of Lake 41
36. Lives of Horse 42
37. Lives of Animal 43
38. Lives of Method 44
39. Lives of Morandi 45
40. Lives of Rot 46
41. Lives of Modrow 47
42. Lives of Nathan 48
43. Lives of Cloth 49
44. Lives of Forest 50
45. Lives of Raft 51
46. Lives of Estuary 52
47. Notes 53
48. Acknowledgements 54