Contents
I
When My Father Calls Me a Pussy
Polar Bear
My Father Feeding the Birds
Love Song to the Demon-Possessed Pigs of Gadara
Birthmark
Fig Leaf
Floodwaters in South Carolina
Ash on the Tongue
Cain
Emo, 2005
Not an Entrance
II
Nudes
Carving
My Father’s College Roommate
Notes on Bridge Burning
Sour Wine
Upon Receiving My Inheritance
Second Life
Watching My Father Pray over the Lord’s Supper
Elegy with Digital Flowers
When My Father Tells Me My Great-Grandfather Was in the KKK
Sugar
Anchor
III
Nocturne for a Red Fox
Images of Kurt Cobain’s Shotgun Released
When You Were out of Town Last Weekend
Nocturne with Choking in Calloway Gardens
Aquarium
Tightrope
Seeds as Nails
Porcelain Nocturne
Ode to the Mattress on the Side of the Interstate
The Day
There Is No Power in Blame
IV
The View through My Father’s Scope Is a Planet
Song
Forecast
Prayer
Worry Stone
Trusting the Periphery
Because Because
What We Are Given
Egg Tooth
Pygmalion
Snowstorm, Mid-January
Cartoon
Outpatient
Acknowledgments