CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Disclaimer

We poured them in. We poured all of our voices into a single black box. Could we have been anyone? Could this have been anywhere?

A Chorus of Ghosts Flight Recorder The Stages of Harriet Factory Meat I Hooves The Corner Store Clerk Voices His Opinion The Six-Fingered Woman My Son Comes Home With His Women Factory Meat II The Empathy Exercise Teacher Factory Meat III Penthesilea I Know You Are You, and Real Factory Meat IV The Dermatologist at the Farmer’s Market Reva Recalls Her Youth, Abridged Never Not Factory Meat V Clover After Her Brother’s Body Washed Ashore, Roman Z Factory Meat VI Happy Mother’s Day! Factory Meat VII Estelle Saltern The Funeral Director Voices His Opinion Factory Meat VIII The Town Buries Its Mayor Factory Meat IX Open House Mercury Oracle Factory Meat X I Am Without Money, Pity, or Time Liquid Swords Factory Meat XI Power Plant Third State Factory Meat XII Epilogue: Slumber Party /// Spectral Trace Factory Meat XIII

Notes

Acknowledgements