Contents
Foreword
Prelude in the Key to Everlasting Life
Just to Give You an Idea
Preface to This Edition at Dusk
It Doesn’t Hurt That She Is Beautiful
As If I Hadn’t Just Undressed Inside Her
Tossed to the Sky to Commemorate Her Death
Casting a Memory into the Cliff
From What Abyss of Memory
Preface to This Edition at Daybreak
Before the Cold Bite of a Rattler
Introduction to the Mother
Say “Bonjour” to the Memory, Our Guest
Interlude in a Lost Key
Memory with the Beautiful Hair
A Beautiful Boyish Insouciance
Boots & That Which Suits a Goddess
Sexual Misconduct
I Am Trying to Ground You & Have Been All Along
Merciless Palace to Remember
Even I, Who Have No Lover, Love
In the Star’s Own Words
The Graveyard
Everything Tastes of Licorice If You Let It
In Paintings We Appear in Forests in Threes
My Mandolin
Below His Monocle
The Past Is Not the Past
From Pawn’s Eye View
If You Saw, There Will Be Sawdust
The Tale of an Invisible Woman Will Never Vanish
Once He Left Me for the Lake
Interlude in a Set of Jangling Keys
The Waters Broke
Entr’acte
Lament in a Fixed Key
I Keep Copies of This Question in Color & in Black & White
Apart at the Seams
Like an Altar, or Minimalism
It Was Enough for Us Just to Keep It Clean
Tell It to the Doctor, Tell It to the Wind
Why Punish the Water for What It Needs
Only Light Where the Leaves Once Were
Nothingland
My That Was Fine & Then She Died
Afterword in the Allegory of a White Blanket & a Chandelier
Acknowledgments
About the Author