Contents
I
Would You Believe
Ophidia
Valediction
An Affirmation of the Unsayable
Aunt Tracy Is the Trickster God
My Brother Sweeping the Porch in a Halo of Moths
Economy of the Next Life
Heaven and Earth
Westbound
A Thousand Wires Humming
Incantation
II
How Loss Inhabits a Body
Shortness of Breath
Killing
A Ghost Country of the Erotic Imagination
River Blindness
Landless
The Train That Devours
Spirit Level
Love Poem
Animal Instinct
Early on the Day of the Solar Eclipse
III
A Spectacular Reformation of Their Old Ways
Soda Lake
Them Featherweights Don’t Know Half Enough to Get Themselves Killed
The Old Order
A Field Might Catch Fire
The First Time They Hopped a Train
Living in the End Times
I Passed Three Girls Killing a Goat
God’s Ear
After I Die
Notes
Acknowledgments