Orchard

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tasting the Last of the Ice Age 1
4. I Take Off the Suit of Never Mind 5
5. Tjikko 7
6. Small Park in the Lake 9
7. A Woman Whose Larynx Hummed Yellow 10
8. I Woke a Lake 13
9. Eleusinian 20
10. Orchard 22
11. Tarim Princess 24
12. Dead I’ve Spoken to Lately 25
13. Apparitional 27
14. Uphill 29
15. When in Love Goes Fear 30
16. Catalogue I 35
17. Sappho in Recovery 37
18. They Moved Whole Forests, While I Slept 38
19. War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet. 39
20. A Letter to Another Poet on Rilke & Fusion 40
21. Brasserie 42
22. On Coffee in Canada En Route to (and from) Elizabeth Bishop’s Childhood Home in Great Village, Nova Scotia 44
23. Catalogue II (An Incomplete Disaster Report) 48
24. Channel 51
25. Too Deep to Disturb 52
26. An Abbreviated Queer Autobiography 53
27. Modern Family 57
28. Recovery 59
29. The Hungry House in Atherton 60
30. Elements of Earth, Hold On 63
31. Counting the Manuscripts 64
32. Between Species 65
33. Demise of the Courier Pigeon 66
34. All the Men Disappear 67
35. Half Brother Lives on in Drafts 70
36. Skull, with Your Teeth like Silver Armor 72
37. Ovid During Lockdown 75
38. Dream Cure 77
39. Bright Unrest 80
40. The Clairvoyant Heart 84
41. Leaving the Ice Hotel 85
42. Breathing the Weather 88
43. Notes 91
44. Acknowledgments 92