CONTENTS
Piety
An Individual History
In Certain Situations I’m Very Much Against Birdsong
Labyrinth
My Mother of Invention
Necrophoresis
Grandmother with Mink Stole, Sky Harbor Airport, Phoenix, Arizona, 1959
At the End of a Ninetieth Summer
The Bees of Deir Kifa
The Concrete of Bint Jbeil
Cyclops
Doctor Friendly
My Father’s Knee
Wind
An Oracle
Lashed to the Deck Rail
Days in Paradise
An Excerpt from The Complete Catalog of Dogs
Brendan’s Hair
An Amicable Breakup
“in his house by the wayside he entertained all comers”
History
Memory of My Mother
Embrace
Laelaps
Binding Spell
To a Horseshoe Crab
Among School Children
Danny Meyers
A Nautical Riddle
The Singer
Object to Be Destroyed
Robbers
Rabid head
Bikini
Six Lines for Louise Bogan
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS