Contents
I. Ascent
She Was Pulling (Mother’s Song)
While She Was Gone
A Different Kind of Pulling
The New Farmer’s Almanac Puzzle of the Day
seeing her together (the Chorus)
short shorts
The New Farmer’s Almanac Folklore for January
Persephone’s Lark Song
From “Man on Man”: I.2 Myth and Ritual
trying so hard
Blues Song
her lover
Adultery Song
The New Farmer’s Almanac Migration Forecast
thirsting so hard
Swallow Song
From Cli-Fi and One-Offs
her mother
Winter Feast Song
Atrazine
The New Farmer’s Almanac Home Remedies
Cleft Song
revirginize
II. Search
World of Explaining
too susceptible
The New Farmer’s Almanac Puzzle of the Day
Once Song
From “Man on Man”: III.2 Food Practices
trouble eating
Hungry, the Owner
From Cli-Fi and One-Offs
Song of Reasons
fetishes, the language
ever reddening
From “Man on Man”: IV.4 Sport and Recreation
Fruit-Eating Song
our hands
Mystery Itself
sounds in a mouth
V.9 Eating Disorders
Science Tricks for Children
Some of us had started dreaming of motes
A later school, calling itself Anti-Protagonism
I will shrink my stomach so I can abide
Nature Fact of the Day
Too many mirrors
Grow a gourd inside
III. Descent
Syndrome
Grief-Telling
Unnaming
Guilt-Telling
GoDarks or One-Offs
To be Unlit
Un-telling
deadzones
Dead zones?
Rotting Ice? Heatstroke? Fleeing Drowning?
Grief?
What happened?
Before Hades
To the Shine and Clamor
IV. And Ascent
the life of her
Word of the day
frightening, beautiful veins
Love tonic
The Last Epoch to Name
The New Farmer’s Almanac Mystery of the Day
From Cli-Fi and One-Offs
to make light
Light Song
The New Farmer’s Almanac Riddle of the Day
A Funny-Looking Gourd
Notes
Acknowledgments