Contents
Dear Reader
1.
What Form after Death
Disappearing Ink
Washing in Cold Water
Self Search
The Great Loneliness
Gruss
Look at Quintillions Ripen'd and Look at Quintillions Green
Mannerist
My Outlook on Life
Enter Fortinbras
Psalm
2.
Food Plain
Desert Ode
Liverwurst
Wheelchair Race
Revolutions Tend toward Orthodoxy
Gawker
From the Get-Go
Admissions Policy
Sex with Strangers
Poem on a Them by Tony Hoagland
Force of Rabbit
Briar
3.
You
Learning to Live with Bliss
Triage
Fire Ode
Ash Ode
Lots of Questions
Earth Science Lab Partner
Private Waterfall
Lives of the Primitives
Pelt
Lives of the Orphans
Sparkler
An Orgasm Is a Spaceship
Our Kind of People
My Itty Void
Procession
4.
Half Story Half-Life
The Hour Light Streams through the House
Scatteration
Acorn Hitting a Tin Roof
The Pure Intention of the Honest
Today They Will Show Me the Homunculus
Like My Older Sister
Blue Limbo
Rose Prick
Oddly Folded Bird
Grave Tour
Exit Exam
Afterward (Little Evening Sermon)
Acknowledgments