Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Calle Florista 1
5. As Well As You Can 5
6. The Internal State of Texas 6
7. We Are Crossing Soon 8
8. Rules for Drought 10
9. What Is True Is You’re Not Here 11
10. Say Uncle 13
11. New World 15
12. I admit that I believe ideas exist regardless 17
13. Annunciation 18
14. Pilgrims 19
15. Testament 21
16. Summertime 22
17. You Will Come to Me across the Desert 24
18. Gravid 26
19. Midnight in the House 28
20. This World and That One 30
21. After the First Road 31
22. After 32
23. Two Years in That City 33
24. Once 35
25. Psalm to Whoever Is Responsible 37
26. A world’s too little for thy tent, a grave too big for me 39
27. Ambidextrous 41
28. Prayer of the St. of the Hottest Night in Las Cruces 43
29. To the Crickets Which Sing in Unison 45
30. Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt? 46
31. RIP 48
32. The Altar by George Herbert 50
33. Spanish Language in Mexico, 1993 53
34. In the Shade 56
35. Unfinished Letter to Death 58
36. The Self after Modernism 60
37. Notes 63