Contents
i.
My Father’s Soul Departing
Extinction Event: A Cache of Photos of the Last Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
Extinction Event: Two-Minute Film of the Last Tasmanian Tiger
Atahulpa
Bivalve
Briefe Historie of the Noose in the Colonie of Virginia
Give Orange Me Give Eat Orange Me Eat Orange Give Me Eat Orange Give Me You
Canis Familiarus
ii.
Elegy: Robot Folding Laundry
Absolute Rhythm
For the Scribe Gar.Una of Uruk, 3,000 BC
Nineteen Eleven Blues
Extinction Event: Decoy Birds
Study Skins
Sinatra: The Concert at Pompeii, 1991
Body Politic: To Ezra Pound in Purgatory
Anniversary Poem
iii.
Extinction Event: Catawba Cotton Mill, 1908
In the Attic
Chalk Line
Ichor
Concerning Pan
Extinction Event: The Book of Revelation as Interpreted by Link Wray
Occupy
Watching Fox News on the Holiday of Martin Luther King Jr.
Jefferson Composing His Bible
Sclera
Lorine Niedecker: The Only Recording, 1970
Ode to Fox P2
Notes
Acknowledgments