Contents
I.
Black Thumb
Jane Calls to Clytemnestra
Mostly Married, Alone at Night
Variations On
After Ever
When I Say Jesus Was My Boyfriend
Long Song as Iphigenia in a Teen Movie Asked to Prom as Part of a Prank
Juvenilia
Self-Portrait as Erinyes’ Dating Profile
Song in the Key of Men Who Try to Fuck Me Then Say They Love Me as a Friend
New Grammar
Wherein I Attempt to Write about Something Different Than Women’s Anger after an Editor Calls My Work Brilliant but “Single-Minded”
Song in the Key of Negged
Extinction
Cassandra at the Title IX Hearing
Haunted
II.
Unmappable
The End of September
Faithless
Midlife / Midwest
Civilization
The Lurk
Love Song as Parking Lot in Which Boys from My High School Do Donuts
Antiquity Abecedarian
I Have Cried Off All My Makeup
My Best Friend’s Abuser Takes Her to Court
Self-Portrait as Portrait of the Erinyes Pursuing Orestes
Epigrams Upon the Health-Giving Qualities of Mirth
My New Boss Has Been Thinking a Lot about Time
III.
Lunacy
Manzano | Corazón | Un Puño de Tierra
Baba Yaga Bought the House Already Like That or I Thought This Would Be Different
Host
Hechizos Para la Bruja Solitaria
Sad Cartography
Postcard with Photo of Samuel Beckett, Sent by a Friend
Milk Sickness
1980s Business Ladies
On a Hike up Prospect Rock with Three Women Sixteen Years My Junior
Squad
Jesus Christ Is Looking for Me in Vermont
Neighbors
Panic Attack at Applebee’s
Self-Portrait as Alone with Thoughts
Cleo
Bosque Nocturne
Self-Portrait as Arithmetic in a Haunted Forest
Lake Eumenides
Notes
Acknowledgments