CONTENTS

1.

  1. A Name
  2. Ancestors
  3. How Most of the Dreams Go
  4. The Leash
  5. Almost Forty
  6. Trying
  7. On a Pink Moon
  8. The Raincoat
  9. The Vulture & the Body
  10. American Pharoah
  11. Dandelion Insomnia
  12. Dream of the Raven
  13. The Visitor
  14. Late Summer after a Panic Attack
  15. Bust
  16. Dead Stars
  17. Dream of Destruction
  18. Prey

2.

  1. The Burying Beetle
  2. How We Are Made
  3. The Light the Living See
  4. The Dead Boy
  5. What I Want to Remember
  6. Overpass
  7. The Millionth Dream of Your Return
  8. Bald Eagles in a Field
  9. I’m Sure about Magic
  10. Wonder Woman
  11. The Real Reason
  12. The Year of the Goldfinches
  13. Notes on the Below
  14. Sundown & All the Damage Done
  15. On a Lamppost Long Ago
  16. Of Roots & Roamers
  17. Killing Methods
  18. Full Gallop
  19. Dream of the Men
  20. A New National Anthem
  21. Cargo
  22. The Contract Says: We’d Like the Conversation to Be Bilingual
  23. It’s Harder

3.

  1. Against Belonging
  2. Instructions on Not Giving Up
  3. Would You Rather
  4. Maybe I’ll Be Another Kind of Mother
  5. Carrying
  6. What I Didn’t Know Before
  7. Mastering
  8. The Last Thing
  9. Love Poem with Apologies for My Appearance
  10. Sway
  11. Sacred Objects
  12. Sometimes I Think My Body Leaves a Shape in the Air
  13. Cannibal Woman
  14. Wife
  15. From the Ash inside the Bone
  16. Time Is On Fire
  17. After the Fire
  18. Losing
  19. The Last Drop
  20. After His Ex Died
  21. Sparrow, What Did You Say?