Contents
What Is the Body
Postcard from the Spanish Steps
Halcyon: An Origin Story
Postcard from the Dead Sea
Anyone Would Drown
Postcard from York, Maine
Postcard from Gulfport, Mississippi
Genealogy
Laws of Living
Variations on Thank You
Postcard from Gethsemane
Why I Will Never Garden
Confirmation
In the Garden of Earthly Delights
Reverse Genesis with Drought
Postcard from Caye Caulker, Belize
Infinitely Yours
Not My Day
The World Is Throwing Me a Surprise Party
Advice from a Marriage Counselor
Please Don’t Feed the Spirit Animals
Our Lady of the Jail
Postcard from Los Angeles, California
Variations on Goodbye
The Harp Knows How to Be Stripped Bare
Liturgy
Origin of Salt
Imitation
Postcard from Yosemite
Postcard from the Salton Sea
Poem with Inexact Apocalypse
Updates on the Drought
Our Lady of Arts & Crafts
The Crowning
O
Postcard from Grasmere, England
Options for Penance
Variations on I’m Sorry
Postcard from Kansas City, Missouri
Postcard from Kansas City, Kansas
Echolocation
Photographs after a Murder: Memphis, 1968
Postcard from the Kunsthistorisches, Vienna
What to Make of the Shape of Your Body in the Bed
A Dream of Burial Means to Acknowledge Something in Your Life Is Ending
Self-Portrait with Dragonfly
Acknowledgments
Notes