Contents
Dedication
Copyright
INTRODUCTION
I: ONE FOOT OUT THE DOOR
Privilege of Being
Sweet Ruin
Tell Me, Black Heart
I Want to Tell you Why Husbands Stop Loving Wives
Curse Four: Orders for the End of Time
Divorce Dream
Intimacy
Ex-Wife: Infatuation
Bournehurst-On-The-Canal
When a Woman Loves a Man
Intimations of Infidelity
Cross-Country
Walking Home Across the Island
The Night Before Leaving
Self-Improvement
Deep River Motor Inn
After Summer Fell Apart
Home Together
Ex-Wife: Homesickness
Reunions with a Ghost
Coda
Terrible Love
Giving Myself Up
II: IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STORM
Listene
Slowly
Adam and Eve
Finished
Minneapolis
The Story
The Pure Loneliness
Song of An X
Their Divorce
The Monarchs: 44
The Sporting Life
Dancer Holding Still
Separated Father
Fuck You Poem #45
So Long Lonely Avenue
Through the Glass
5:14 From Chicago
Breakdown
You
The End of the Affair
Penis Envy
After Mayakovsky
Post-Thalamion
Ghost
Just That Empty
Why I Will not Get out of Bed
III: THE AFTERMATH
Ex-Boyfriends
Divorced Fathers and Pizza Crusts
Lover Release Agreement
The Chair
A Man Alone
Dusk
One Melody
After
What to Wear for Divorce
Green Couch
Beginning with His Body and Ending in a Small Town
Talking Richard Wilson Blues, by Richard Clay Wilson
Longing
Divorce
The Monarchs: 47
Excavating the Ruins of Miami Beach
Approach
Heavy Trash
Equitable Distribution
A May-December Romance
Straight Boyfriend
Annulment
The Gift
All the Way from There to Here Jack Gilbert
Lessening
Spider Plant
The Monarchs: 43
Half-Life
Charades
More or Less a Sorrow Jane Miller
Sway
The Monarchs: 20
Looking Down the Barrel
Goodbye
Blue Vase
Part of Me Wanting Everything to Live
At the End of the Affair
Landscape with a Woman
PERMISSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
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