Cover
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
Photographs
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Inaudibles
A Deaf Baptism
The Honeybee Epiphany
Salt in the Basement
Claustrophobic Audism of a Tenderfoot
The Turtle Bowl
The Cycle of the X-Ray Technician
Deaf People Don’t Do Voice-overs
Room Disservice
The Air Conditioner
The Deaf Simpleton
Debunking “Deaf Mute”
Will
ASL, Eyesdropping
The Miller of Moments
Deaf Director to a Deaf Actor
The Ivoryton Inn
The Universal Drum
Adam
Sunrise in Santa Fe with Clay
My Sojourn in Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris
I I . Existentials
Verisimilitude versus Vicissitude
The water falls.
One Frame at a Time
I of the Beholder
Fibers of Time
Windows
Someone’s Daughter
Pop Tart & the Computer Scientist
Wake of the Future
The Relativity of Banality
N-u-i in South Baltimore
Sun, the Savior
The Silent Witness of Mauthausen
I I I . Quizzicals
Trans-Portation
Volare
The Reverse Pavlov Effect
Uncarved Epitaphs
My Subconscious Dreams a Poem
The Seven-Hundred-Dollar LouisVuitton Fountain Pen
Arson
The Missing Tipping Point
Origin of a Pratfall
Keep Politics Out of Sushi
Support Group
The Absentminded Tooth Fairy
How to Make Fire
The Proof of the Pudding
A Life Hack
IV. Irrevocable s
The Perfect Woman
The Morning Paper
The Cryptology of Love
Alone and Breathing
The Way He Sees Her
The Eyes of Ingrid Isabella
November Rust
Missing Children
Yew in the Family Plot
Uncle George
V. Environmentals
Five Haiku
A Maryland Eastern Shore Life
The Breezy Logic of a Nine-Year-Old
Family Happy Hour on Christmas Day
Nature Photography
A Long Way from a Leper Colony
Olfactophobia
Juniper, Pine, Mesquite
The Canyon
Vaudeville in the Insect World
Subterranea
The Jay
Impressions
Land of Lost Pets
Listening through the Bone