Contents
An Unusual Bird Divides the Sky
Mise En Place
Heartbeat and Humidity
Stolen and Unnamed
Cutting the Tail
On the Eve of the 2017 Presidential Inauguration
Yes, In 1952 White Teachers Made Their Students Stand Up and Tell the Class What Their Fathers Did for a Living
The Marriage of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
Citizenship of the Owl at General Motors
Why I Don’t Go to Church
The Noiseless Flight of Owl Wings
And When We Return, We Are Water
Engine Block (Exploded View)
Great Horned Owl
Patrilineal
Behind the Back of the Robin
Poem in Consideration of My Death
The Eagle, Not the United States
In the Presence of the Robin
Set Free
In the One Photo I Have of My Grandmother
Tomato & Lettuce
Mexican in Michigan
John James Audubon and the Battle of San Jacinto
Get Out of the Water
Past the Forty-Fifth Parallel
México City in the Middle of Michigan
Ferment
The Vows of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
Resurrection of Prey
Ornithology
The Owls of Saginaw
Luxury
Elegy for My Quinceañera
Each is Another and No Other
Learning to Sail, I Can Only Think of Odysseus and Ask to Be Tied to the Mast
Robin
Shotblast
The Universe, According to Rufino Tamayo
Ode to the Grocery
Second Shift
Hooked Lace
Hand Over Heart
Brain Food
Hemingway Country
Lessons on Becoming Full Grown
What I Found
Feeding Rituals
Sacrament
En Español Por Favor
Optics
Shade Tree Mechanic
Where the Girls Are
In My Own State
What Remains of General Motors
La Patria
Get Out of My House
What General Motors Doesn’t Protect
To Skip a Stone
Northern Cardinal
Soy De La Luna
Domesticate
Five Things Borrowed
Birds of a Feather
Forecast
Only the Snow Will Quiet the Robin
Figurehead
Analog
The Robin Who Turned to Snow
My Mother and the Cardinal
A Lesson from My Father About Electricity
American Crow
Parallel Universe
Cortés Burning the Aviaries
Notes