Contents

ARCHES UP

Role Research

Dear Demographic

Book Inscription for 1/2 of the Coen Brothers

Face Off

If You’re Going Through Hell

Earthquake

Seeing Into Seoul

Ante Meridiem with Noelle Kocot

Katharine Hepburn Straight to DVD

Crossing the World

Learning to Trust Legs

THIS LITTLE PINKY

Gene Diamonds

Poriferan

The Eve of a Presidency

Subtitles on Children

Croak

Fell Off

Run On

My Face

Barbie

Disappearing Act

Something

The Good Hand

Shades

Louisiana Stories

Overheard: Table Two

Tweet

ACHILLES, REVISITED

Trust Haiku

Strange

He Seemed Like a Nice Axe

Bedtime for the Archimedes of Your Hell

In My Best Anne Sexton Accent

Turning to Ropes

Bang Ditto

Family Value

Framework

Harlequin

In a New York Mugging

Hate, a Love Poem

Moth Tamer

With Lots of Salt Water and Imagination

Interlude

Face Me

Ode to a Rug

Roadkill

Swagger Headfirst Into Your Campfire

The Black Tie Warren

Ice Cube Language and Dracula Boy

Dear Watermelon Seed

Sunday Paper Classifieds

Winter

At the Natural History Museum

Word War

School for the Vivid

Downer’s Club

If You Decide It’s Better to Let Go

Oh, You

Cold Conscience

How My Papa Saved Christmas