Contents
The Bat
Part 1
To Swim
Two Owls
Race Track, Hialeah, FL
Skin
Copper
Consolation
Girl, 9, Secretly Snips a Lock of Another Student’s Hair
Girl with Pigeons
Girl in the Backseat, Wisconsin Winter
Entering the Bath
Part 2
Stratus clouds form
Mackerel Sky
Lost Things
Translation
Butterflies at Santa Cruz
No Letters
Mission District, San Francisco
His Letter
Sassafras
The Gift
December Underneath
Foxgloves
The Selkie Wife
The Missing Women
The Selkie from Shore
Wild Blackberries
Robe
Fair Isle
Secondhand Dress
Window and Field
The Sleeping Gypsy
Claim
Part 3
Keeper
Cave Painting, Font-de-Gaume
Deep North
Bottle Gentian
A Kind of Vanishing
A Field Guide to North American Wildflowers
Bluebird House
Rufous-Sided Towhee
The Door
A Fragment of Sappho
Secondhand Sweater
The Selkie Returns to the Sea
Cusp
Wood
It moves
The Fire Road
Part 4
The Underpainting
Notes
Acknowledgments