CONTENTS

  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Acknowledgments

1.

  1. Free Checking!
  2. So Many Stories
  3. How to Tie a Knot
  4. Pluto’s Gate: Mississippi
  5. Take Me As I Am
  6. Ode: Feeling Up My Friend’s Sister at the Moment Their Drunken Father Begins the Dog Slaughter
  7. The Starting Point

2.

  1. Apology after Driving Down Hooker Street Thirty Years after We Moved
  2. It Was Like a Movie
  3. Smote
  4. Apocalyptic Lullaby
  5. The Full Ratio
  6. Roots
  7. My Father’s Friends Travel from the Afterlife to Attend His Memorial
  8. Elegy for My Mother’s Ex-Boyfriend
  9. Kingfish

3.

  1. Love Letter to You, Dear Reader
  2. Elegy for the Epic
  3. O Anna Lynn, You Must Have Known
  4. Afterlife
  5. Chicken Brick’n
  6. There’s Nothing Wrong with You
  7. The Guitar Boat
  8. Not Soul
  9. Heuristic for the Nearsighted
  • The Author