Contents
I. Girl
Girl
Tale
The Father’s Story
Favorite Dress
The Bargain
Something About Leah
The Naming of the Scars
Shadow Play
The Knot
Once
II. Anyone
Tender
His and Hers
The Fairest of Them All
The Message
Threshold
Leah Will Say Nothing
Horror
Driving Home From the Store, He Says Your Sister Called
Except Through Me
Ringstraked
The Heart
All That Drowned Beauty
Bluebeard Variation
The Twelfth Wise Woman
Now
For Goodness Sake
Oh, Honey
Fair and Tender Ladies
First Divorce
III. Or Else
Deed
On the Silence of Cotton
She Starts To Slow Down
Still Joy
Harvest
Three Things That Happened Yesterday
Lots of Ships
It’s Not Up To You, Sweetheart
Small Song, or, Cosmology
How I Don’t Know
Some Things the Doorways Want To Tell Us
Maybe This Will Help
Where I’m From
An Invisible Story
Or Else
The Apple
Sorting the Seeds
Way Down at the Bottom of Everything Where It’s All Mixed Up and Everyone Is Everyone
Begotten
Stones
IV. After
Psalm of Leah
I and Thou
Soul Retrieval
Leaving the Story
Notes