Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. One Do Not Drive into Smoke
5. Reaching For Your Hair 3
6. Disruptions 4
7. Elegant Shrimp In Champagne Sauce 5
8. My Dream House 8
9. House-Sitting 9
10. Knowing Objects Will Outlast Them 10
11. My Gown Is A Momentary Outline 11
12. Dragons 12
13. The Bat 13
14. One Summer 14
15. Exit Interview 15
16. Melinda 16
17. Horrorscope 17
18. Graveyard 19
19. Visiting Relatives 20
20. Mirror And Sword Trick 22
21. In The Holy Spirit Research Center 24
22. Least Terns 25
23. Bloodstone 26
24. Water Moccasin 28
25. Anasazi Bowl 30
26. Do Not Drive Into Smoke 31
27. Wedding Triptych 32
28. Cool Wagons & Bone Chandeliers 36
29. Through The Corridor 38
30. Departing Iceland 39
31. Two As Good There as Here to Burn
32. At The Ramada Inn With Ruth And Esther 45
33. Emitting A Sound 48
34. Conversation With Anne Truitt 50
35. The Conservator 51
36. Purple Gloxinia 52
37. Hannah Höch 53
38. Beneath Eva Hesse’s Fiberglass Veil 55
39. Photograph Of Edna St. Vincent Millay 61
40. Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz 62
41. The Ghost Of Christina Rossetti 65
42. As Good There As Here To Burn 69
43. Three She Took Off Her Wings and Shoes
44. She Took Off Her Wings And Shoes 73
45. About The Author 90
46. The May Swenson Poetry Award 91