Contents
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
DEDICATION
Ode
The Corners
Rental Car
Fables of the Reconstruction
A Western
When Asked Why He’d Been Talking to Himself, Pyrrho Replied He Was Practicing to Be a Nice Fellow
Affirmations
Museum of the Thing
The World
Your News Hour Is Now Two Hours
Childhood Triptych
Be Reasonable
The National Gallery
Rothko via Muncie, Indiana
Interior
Mole
Via
I Let Love In
Lift Up Your Eyes
All That Is Certain Is Night Lasts Longer Than the Day
Keebleville
Birth of the Rifle
The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out
Forty
Life Is a Carnival
Roof Repair and Squirrel Removal
Sault Ste. Marie
Wrap Party
Conversion
The National Gallery II
The Midlands
Lord of Fog
Darklands
A Good Hotel in Rotterdam
Trouble Light
Bitumen
Prospect
Museum of the Thing II
Rural Conflation Sonnet
For the Ski Jump at Canada Olympic Park, Calgary
Against Lyric
Spiral
Man Is a Rational Animal
The Living Option
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALSO BY KAREN SOLIE
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