Contents
I. Theories
It’s not Armageddon
Atlantis
Don’t Miss It
Bernal Heights
“A Soldier’s Home, Hughes, Arkansas, 1970”
Theories
Prayer for Sleep
American Robin
Teaching Luca Mr. Potato Head
On the first day of class
Moon, Jacket, Yellow, Tree, Violin
II. Changing Room
The Storyteller’s Daughter
Killing
The Amnesiac, Seventh Grade
Chosen
Stars
The Hill
Clarissa’s Great Aunt
Changing Room
Triangle Tattoo
Hard Labor
III. Somewhere in a Box Marked Keep
Foundling
Nightmare Predicting Change
Recurring
Junk Shop Magic
True
Afterbirth
Somewhere in a Box Marked Keep
Other Nights
Revisited
Narrative
IV. Say Yes
In Praise of Falling
Meteorology
The Swimmer
Wetlands
Don’t Ask Me
When
If
Q to the 6 Train
Creature
Dark Magic
Getting It Right This Time
Say Yes
Acknowledgments