Contents
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Ghostwalk, Missouri
Coded Messages
Everything I Know about Portland, OR
1968 as Superhero Origin Story, Et Alia
American Travelogue
Instructions for Performance
Your Sport
Conversation with My Fear
The Provenance of Salt
Division
Nest I
Your Innocence Will Not Protect You
Reliquariana
Your Number
In the Prayer of Quiet, One Erases All Things
Family Projects
Town Crier
The Aura Homily
Time Is an Emotion
The Arborist
Mouse Trap
As Quentin Tarantino’s Torture Americana
“Adopt” as in “A Program”
Magic Boat Ride
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First Messenger
Hello from the Dumpster on Centennial and College Park
Garden of Mirrors
Forbidden City
Night Life
Leaving Elegy
The Many Worlds, Infinitely Saturated
The Poor Farm
The Performance
Shame Experiment
Encounter in the New World
Friendly Ghost
The Movement of Crowds
Blank Slate
Elegy for the Gift Economy
Alice Waking
The Second Idea of Absence
We All Know That Something Is Eternal
Haunted Oregon
The Give Up Year
Elegy for Brutalist Architecture
Nest II
Building the Cathedral
For the Dead Mothers in Disney Movies
All the Young Mothers of 1911 Agree
To Be Happy, They Suggest
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Un-
The World as Itself
Lugubrious Salutations
Echoes of a Theme by Brutalist Architecture
Jury Day
The Idea of Community
Bio Lab
Battleforce Arpeggio (I-35)
Nest III
From the Map of the Folded World
Clerical Error
Caveat
Your Father, Dreaming
Running
How’s It Going
Dress Rehearsals
We’ll All Be Dead by Morning
The Wizard of Oz Museum
Today Is One of the Days of the Week
The Book of Names