Contents
V
I
To Be Unprotected
My Father Died in the Fullness of Spring
Horses Resting
What It Sounded Like on the Way to Calvary
Trail of One Hundred Giants
Gods in Ruins
The Hidden World
A History of Lament
Crevasse
Portrait of my Father, Mise en Scéne
II
The Seer and the Seen
Creature
Omens
The Afterlife of Flames
In This Time of Parched Things
American Megafauna
III
The Day I Was Protected
Indelible
Origin
Afterward
The Boy Who Went Looking
Girls in Custody
Paradise Motel
Water in Standing Pools
Winter Shoreline
IV
Sudden Light
Once
A Field of Energy Knits You to Earth
Helianthus
Invisibility Cloak
What Metal Remembers
The Way It Happened
The Child Who Escaped
Gravid and Amber
What You Are to Me Sleeping
How We Learned to Love
Nude Descending a Staircase
But You Already Know This
Sky with Four Suns
Prayer to Jacaranda
Forgetting to Eat
Asking the Pears
Snow You Remember
Late August Garden
Velocities
Our Father Transfigured on His 91st Birthday
Leviathan
Eye of the Deer
Pelican Entangled in Kelp
Notes
Acknowledgments