Contents
I.
The Tower
Intensive Care
Intensive Care
Buried Abecedary for Intensive Care
The Fall
II.
Little Pharma’s Research
Shades Pulled Down
After the PET Scan
Little Pharma Encounters the Spine
Cadaver 28
Thanks to Leibniz, putative father of topology
Garter, Copper, Water
Little Pharma on Her Youth
Howards End
Puck in Oncology
III.
Little Pharma as Lady Macbeth
Little Pharma on Rooms
Little Pharma Sees Ghosts
Answers for Piercers
Little Pharma
Self-Portrait as a Young Republic
Self-Portrait as Marianne Moore at her mother’s funeral
The Countable
IV.
Little Pharma’s Course in Sonography
Dissecting Blade
On a Bill Traylor Drawing
On a Bill Traylor Drawing
Fatti Maschii Parole Femine
Little Pharma Planting
Cutting-Pond
Three Designs for Anni Albers
Die Kunst der Fuge
V.
On Lost Art
Imagining Marriage
Imagining Marriage
The Joy of
Other people’s boyfriends
Home Alone
Imagining Marriage [We visit our elders]
The Apparatus
Notes
Acknowledgments