Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vi
3. I
4. The Divide 3
5. Dummy Prayer 4
6. They Make Some Things Easier Here So That Other Things Get Harder 5
7. “Cal, have you ever gone through caves?” 6
8. A Rank, Bleak Devotion 7
9. Sleight of Hand 8
10. Failed Spell for a Spine 9
11. Chester Street, Holding Court 11
12. No Witness 13
13. Mayday 15
14. Blueprint (I) 16
15. II
16. The Dialect Remembers 19
17. Mountain Amnesia 20
18. Turnover 24
19. When the Moon Keeps Rising and My Friend Is Still Dead 26
20. Pattern of Behavior 28
21. Poem with Jurisprudence 30
22. The Law of Jocasta 31
23. Ojalá 32
24. Expeditions to the Polar Seas 33
25. Crow’s Nest 34
26. Dew Value 35
27. Hunger Is the Analog 36
28. Blueprint (II) 37
29. III
30. Hand Me My Leather 41
31. The Responsible 43
32. My fish are living forever 45
33. Something Like a Stevie Nicks Documentary 46
34. Compulsion/Procedures 47
35. Grief Vectors 49
36. Elegy with a Hangover and The X-Files 50
37. Bodega 52
38. Fallout 53
39. Wishes to Will 54
40. The Milky Way Is a Snowy White 57
41. Blueprint (III) 58
42. IV
43. The Crying Men 63
44. Salvage Operation 66
45. Wind Shear 67
46. Animal Spotting 68
47. I See the Moon (to Sheila, age 9) 69
48. I Drew a Circle around a Future Tattoo 71
49. Secret Architecture 72
50. The Tramp 73
51. Points of Contact 74
52. Deep Blue Sea 75
53. Ground Rules 76
54. Notes 78
55. Acknowledgments 79