Contents
Acknowledgments
The Rope Was Innocent
<b>I.</b>
The Infant King
I Knew the Rudiments
The Sound: Seventeen Year Cicadas
Waiting for a Bus in Baltimore
The Bruise
The Nuclear Family
Bluegrass
Ambition
Two Sightings and a Valediction
Wanting Red Hair in October
The Platypus Dreams Eight Hours a Day
<b>II.</b>
I Am Talking to You about Love
Junk
Surface Tension
The Sad Dream of Peace
Dinner on the Fault Line
The Woodchuck
In Nagasaki
The Last One
Yiddish
To Hold
Aunt Lily and Frederick the Great
Anniversary
<b>III.</b>
The White Meal
To Tell a Sorrow
A Dandelion for My Mother
Pauline Is Falling
Posthumous
The Stones Were Mute
From a Window in Jerusalem
Each Dawn¿s Breaking
My Mother Lies Head to Head
with Esther Stone
Elderly Woman Holding a Dead Bird: Surrey County
Asylum, Circa 1855
Arroyo Seco: A House at the Crossroads
The Mountain
<b>IV</b>
Earth Music
Pottery Urn with Incised Pictographs
Oracle Bone: Inscribed Scapula of an Ox
My Father Did Not Believe
Tomb of MarquisYi of Zeng
Chime of Twenty-six Bronze Bells
As for the Dog
Jade Shroud Sewn with Gold Wire
My Mother, Likewise
Pity the Poor Silks
Bronze Cooking Vessel
The Innocents