Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vi
3. One
4. Devotion Song 3
5. Two
6. Body Canopy 13
7. Piano Room 14
8. Anabatic Scat 15
9. Two Composers from Canton 17
10. One Eternal Drop of Gold 20
11. The Gravel is One More Thing to Pick Up 21
12. Or Else 24
13. Summertime 26
14. The Part About Fate or Counterpoint 28
15. Three
16. Mine is Probably an Owl 33
17. Brief Aspirations of Love & Genealogy 35
18. The Strafing in My Biological Story 36
19. All of This to Adam 39
20. Unasylumed 41
21. It Happened by Accident 44
22. No Point in Lucid California 45
23. Heat Burst 47
24. In the Bellows 49
25. The Part About Sacral & Nerve Or Temperament 54
26. The Part About Love Or Cadence 55
27. Four
28. Virga 61
29. Formidable Handbook 63
30. Tues, Sept. 11 64
31. Prodrome 66
32. One Contour in the Narrative Break 69
33. Blues’ Uppermost Organism 71
34. In the Garden 75
35. Unasylumed, Unarchived 77
36. Vanity 82
37. Personal Concept 83
38. one*
39. Recapitulation 89
40. Notes 90
41. Acknowledgements 91