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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
On the Mississippi River Levee, Styrofoam Cup in My Hand
Sixteen Years to the Day Another Hurricane Reverses
Missing
[With each Mississippi River flood, water spills out of the river]
My Mother’s Ashtray
Monochords
Still Life, South Galvez Street, 1978
[Twenty miles from the Gulf of Mexico’s coast]
Mother Water Ash
Breathwork
Missing
[Another summer of the vanishing. Summer]
Still Life, Jefferson Highway
My Mother’s Nightgowns Smell Like Smoke
Missing
[Once the coastline spoke: I plan to disappear and tell you nothing]
Monochords
Being the Oldest Daughter
Mourning, Silk and Lace
[Could the California fires ever fill the Mississippi]
Missing
Still Life, River Road
Missing
On the Levee Once Again I Walk to Sharpen
[Ten years into the After, the Mississippi]
After My Mother Dies I Crave the Seventies
My Mother’s Matches
Elegy, Napoleon House, New Orleans
Monochords
New Orleans Love Poem
Downriver
Acknowledgments
Notes
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