Cover
Contents
Lullaby
Under the Roof
Each Day I Open the Door to Damage
DIrections
A New Mother Discovers Emptiness
Self Portrait as a Dam
The Flood
Mother Love
The Meow's the Thing—
Further Thoughts on Responsibility
Nose Tip,
Wheat Field with Crows
Tide Pools
Dear Daughter,
Sweet Seed, Sweet Poison
To the Artist's Child
Pre-Term
Child's Story
Because We Left the City
Units of Measure
Aubade
Abandon
Proposal
The Birth of Doubt
Advice to My Younger Self: Fall
Raveling Round the Lake
Dust Storm
We Cannot Sleep Alone
Verge
Child,
Epithalamium on a Theory of Gravity
The Barnyard of It
Creator, I Try
Advice to My Younger Self: Winter
Dear Creation, I Confess,
Further Thoughts on Abandon
Two = Part Invention
Perfect Wife
Processional
How I Learned to Love
Offering
Crossroads
We Wanted More
Later
Sometimes, Silence
In Which I First Discovered
Encounter
Spider Season
Master
Wanting Not Wanting
Presage
Husband,
On a Photograph
Carrying On
It Did Not Happen as You'd Hoped
Unsettling
Lullaby
Hungry
Little Song
Clutch
Before and After
Afterlife
Hush
Revision
Ambition
Preface
Never Have
Coda
Notes
Acknowledgements