Contents
Symptoms of Escape Fever Include
Dillard’s Department Store Field Guide
Coming Out in Oklahoma
Elizabeth Bishop Swipes Right
Tennessee Williams Speaks to Joe Exotic about the Southern Gothic
Work: A Ghazal for Oklahoma
Foreman of the Detasseling Crew
As Much for Worship as Entertainment
Tulsa 1998
The Next-to-Last Lesbian Bar in Oklahoma City
The Land We Belong To
Graciela Says
Damnation Isn’t a Bad Word Cuz They Say It in Church
Slip ’N Slide
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
An Education
Grandma Minnie’s Wedding Band
Boundless
Elizabeth Bishop Reads My Horoscope
At the Public Library
Notes on Sky-Watching
Blue Surprise
Last Day of 37
June Valentine
Scripture of the Fireflies
Amuse-Bouche
Postcards
Sunday Morning Elegy for Karen
Books, Boots, and the Blank Page
Another Poem about the Wind
About the Chicken
Molly Marlova Magdalena McConnell
Second Sight Speaks
Long Lost
Highway
Love Song
Pulling Runes
Valentines 2018
January 8, Yelapa, Mexico
In the New Year
On Why You Should Change Your Life Every Seven Years
I’m Sorry I Haven’t Sent the Letters I Promised
I Never Told Anyone This Because It Just Happened This Morning
Riding the Ferris Wheel at the Beginning of the Apocalypse
Opera Man Serenades Us on a Pandemic Date
A Brief History of Information
Fernweh Is the Cure for Heimweh
My Ex-Girlfriend, Oklahoma
The Poem I Need to Write
The Sky Responds to My Entreaties
Notes
Acknowledgments
Series Acknowledgments