Table of Contents
I
In Praise of Cancer
April 1943
Happiness
Dr. Colin Simms
Happiness
Ghost Telegram
My Father Gets His Wish
Prisoner of War
The Man Show
The American Hotel
Blue
Stillbirth
11 Park Vista
Fast Food
Sewing
Happiness
The Golden Hour
My Parents’ Sex Life
II
First Trimester
Orthodontist Days
Five Kids
Guns
Surgery in Winter
A Second Opinion
Wallpapering
Hospital Days
Frieda and Jules
April 1993
Letting Go
Depressive
Sorry Hour
Depressive
The Visiting Nurse
Average
Leaning In
Body English
Tree
Leaving the Oncology Clinic with My Mother
Dr. Crow
III
What She Wanted
Babies
Terminal Math
Magnolia
Closing Up the Cottage
Helping My Daughter Move into Her First Apartment
Reading My Mother’s Journals
Questions
Language
Before
No Children, No Pets
Napping
Only Child
Thanksgiving
Vegan
The Petitioner
Fishing on the Merrimack, My Father Sees a B-24
Babies
Sixteen Months Later
Super Bowl Sunday
Sex on a Plate
The Blue Blanket
The Autumn House Poetry Series