Acknowledgments
I
Scope
Arc
Do You Want to Hold the Baby?
Girl with a Playbill
Monkey with a Cup
Looking for Z—
Night Rescue
First Thing This Morning
Come Dusk
The Art Teacher’s Wife
Calla Lily
II
Faces at a Play
Dumb
Name Pinned to the Skin of a Mole
Catch
Anniversary
Stray Home
Carsick on the Way to the Coast,with Mary and Her Daughter in the Infant Seat
Seesaw
Safebox
III
How to Be the Lady of the House
The Donut Shop
Postcards from the Best Women Friends of Our Men
After Being Elsewhere, Upon Returning
The Grizzly Bear in February
The Lafayette Square Holiday Mansion Tour
Duet Under Glass
Daughter for My Prayer
Pink Cotton Panties & the Bonsai Tree
IV
Shudder
Embrace on the Neck
The Roasted-Corn Man of Golden Hill
Neighbors
Apology to the Foster Child on Her Tenth Birthday
Shell Pink Clock
Our Friends in Minnesota
Winter and the Santa Ana Winds
Why We Love Our Dogs
Notes