Contents

WHAT WE CARRY

Late October

Dust

If This Is Paradise

What Could Happen

After Twelve Days of Rain

Aphasia

Graveyard at Hurd’s Gulch

What We Carry

The Job

For the Sake of Strangers

What I Wouldn’t Do

Singing Back the World

Balance

SMALL GODS

For My Daughter Who Loves Animals

Planning the Future

Finding What’s Lost

Homecoming

The Aqueduct

Graffiti

Twelve

Matinee

The Ebony Chickering

Small Gods

Family Reunion

Each Sound

AS IT IS

As It Is

Fast Gas

The Thief

Landrum’s Diner, Reno

Sunday Radio

Enough Music

Kaleidoscope

This Close

Afterwards

2 AM

The Lovers

Kissing

Acknowledgments

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