Contents
One
South
Veronica
The Naming of 1500
How Much Longer
The Long Hello
Tied for Impiety
Good Night ’73
No One Need Invite the Ant
Housewife
Two Can Play
Sunday Houses the Sunday House
A Textbook of General Botany
To Be Scattered across the Lawn
Two
What Bird
Egg, Egg
The Architect and the Engineer: A Telephone Play
This Time I Draw Him with My Eyes Closed
Lit through the Night
A One and A
Veronica
My Party
Country Song
Happiest Hours
Long Playing Record
Work Poem
Western Addition
Hawthorne Effect
Son on a Hill
Hailstorm
Three
Subjects Not Suitable for Autofocus, Fuji Instruction Manual: Love, by Guy De Maupassant
Warnings To Be Heeded
Squares and Promenades
Thought Police
Afternoon
How Do We Know the Blood
Son at the Swimming Pool
Swamp Cache
Heavenly Bodies Go in Curves
Look Skyward in Coastal Counties
Intersection of Oak and Linden
Not To Mention the Trees Coming up To My Waist
Veronica
Dogwood, David, Dogwood
Acknowledgments