Contents
Of Yalta
I
Afterbirth Abecedarian
In the Black Forest
Portrait of the Mother: 1985
The Last Judgment
Rough Math
Pantoum: For My Mother
Everybody in the Car We Are Leaving without You
On a Line Overheard in a Crowd of Middle School Cheerleaders
The Jennifer Century
I Would Have Listened to Rush
Once I Was a Thimble but Now I Am a Bell
Domestic Geography
Nuestra Señora de Belén
Girl, know your history.
Consumption
Wedding Polaroid ’75
Afterlife
The Robin Tanka
The High School Principal’s Daughter
The Trap
[1987]
Judy Chicago
Twelve
II
I Am Twenty-One
Lookback
Neighborhood Watch
American Idyll
Natural History
Ode to My Dishwasher
Consume
The New Year
Vow
My Son, the Night Light, the Dark
Regeneration
In a Dry County
Near Forty
The Mammogram
III
The Confessions
Sonnet in XY
A Murder of Librarians
Pisces
In Barstow
Fallen
Seeing Ex-Boyfriends
Self-Portrait as Banshee
Pilgrimage
Triskelion
Acknowledgments