CONTENTS

When it happens

‘What Have I Done?’ and Other Illusions of Control

When it happens / there

The Ways We Used to Travel

My mother said that when her favourite aunt died

The Great Moose Migration

When it happened: when my mother’s nerves ended

A Naturalisation

Why / so nervous?

Mixed Signals: Five Moments of Un-Belonging

Signal / a transatlantic response

Out of the Tunnel

One way of classifying nerve endings

Freak Aguacero

It’s only a matter of time

Birth Strike: A Story in Arguments

When do we give each other a signal

On Whether or Not to Throw In Whose Towel: A Personal Encyclopaedia of Hope

Do certain questions have it in them

Acknowledgements

Textual Synapses: Notes and Works Cited