Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. I
4. Again the first lamb 3
5. Look at your hands 4
6. What calm 5
7. Three hawks at the entrance 6
8. Bless the hands 7
9. Climb until the trees begin to thin 8
10. Tracks 9
11. One tree alive still for every three 10
12. If a higher one then a lower 11
13. Never bur 12
14. Remedio: San Antonio de Padua 13
15. First one then three 14
16. Rose petals 15
17. It was you the other day 16
18. You like not knowing 17
19. II
20. The blue jays and blackbirds 21
21. Another velvet painting please 22
22. A stone a leaf a stash of cranes 23
23. I never told you this but in one 24
24. All those faces 25
25. Love as seed or love as plow 26
26. Remedio: Añil del Muerto 27
27. I forget 28
28. From here these clouds must 29
29. From dust this hope 30
30. There 31
31. Most nights 32
32. Remedio: Preparación 33
33. Whatever you say here 34
34. III
35. This place 37
36. Say little knives 38
37. Her welcoming the ?rst frost 39
38. To survive this side 40
39. Anymore I wake 41
40. My last days 42
41. You know the house 43
42. Remedio: Mimbre 44
43. Now with every Yes 45
44. Tell me again about 46
45. Tiny screams and wingbeats 47
46. When you get like this 48
47. Yell all you want 49
48. María Santísima 50
49. Remedio: Yerba de Víbora 51
50. IV
51. Remedio: La Llamada 55
52. What if hell isn’t a world 56
53. Please Lord 57
54. Mother blue 58
55. Vision after vision 59
56. What of the shrine to Jacob 60
57. My poor mirror 61
58. No humming flying out of 62
59. Another long night 63
60. Just like you said 64
61. He wrote the words Love 65
62. V
63. I keep asking but nothing comes back 69
64. I swear 70
65. I never know if it’s dawn 71
66. Remedio: Recuperación 72
67. Finally 73
68. Sweetbread 74
69. The hard candy yes 75
70. What if instead of praying 76
71. Black pearls 77
72. Remedio: Ocotillo 78
73. Same as you 79
74. Dear Ruin 80
75. There go the trees stirring 81
76. Afterword 83
77. Acknowledgements 84