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Index
Title Page
Dedication
Prologue
I.
A Field Guide to Iridescence and Memory
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?
GETTING STARTED AND SETTING OUT
SPECIMEN: DAMSELFLY
SPECIMEN: SILK
SPECIMEN: BLACK OPALS
SPECIMEN: BLUE MORPHO
THE IRIDESCENCE OF MEMORY
MEMORY: FLORENCE, ITALY
MEMORY: PRAGUE
WHAT I WANT
SPECIMEN: PEARL
Traveling Alone
Jeremiad of a Bad Drought Year
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Everything but Your Wits
STATION
GATE/PLATFORM 1: MATAMOROS, MEXICO
GATE/PLATFORM 2: TUCSON
GATE/PLATFORM 3: MURRELL’S INLET, SOUTH CAROLINA
GATE/PLATFORM 4: SIRACUSA, SICILY
GATE/PLATFORM 5: MAIN STREET
GATE/PLATFORM 6: TERLINGUA, TEXAS
GATE/PLATFORM 7: PUMPVILLE
GATE/PLATFORM 8: EASLEY, SOUTH CAROLINA
GATE/PLATFORM 9: IOWA
Building a Funeral
Postcards from Costa Rica
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
The Rain Follows the Plow
JEFFERSON COUNTY, CENTRAL OREGON, 1911
THE COVE PALISADES STATE PARK, 2001
Two Weddings - (Venice; South Carolina)
Chihuahua Desert Love Song
DAWN
MORNING
MIDDAY
AFTERNOON
SUNDOWN
MORNING
AFTERWARD
Dust Devils
II.
Beyond the Wilderness
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
The Little White House
Bigfoot’s Widow
Gymnast
Second-String
Ave Maria Grotto
CULLMAN, ALABAMA. 1956?
Even on Sundays
PROSPECT, OHIO
Plenty
1.
2.
Alcott in Concord
To Hear Her Tell It
AVERY ISLAND, LOUISIANA. 1870?
Barefoot in a Borrowed Corset
SPELUNKER
MUSEUM GOER
ALTAR GUILD
NAAMAN, AILING
CALDERA
NAAMAN, HEALED
UNDERWATER TOWN (JOCASSEE RIVER VALLEY, SOUTH CAROLINA)
III.
Crescent City Beach
Fossil
Pepper’s Junk Store
In the Country of Rent and Tatter
PROLOGUE: LAP QUILT
THE STITCHED MAP
THE TOWN AT THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN
SUMMER ON THE MOUNTAIN
QUILTER
SILVER
ORANGE
PINK
CRIMSON
JAGGED SEAM
BLACK
YELLOW
BLUE
WHITE
LOVE SONG
ORANGE
GREEN
Archaeology of Lost Women
Three Relics
PORCELAIN BABY. OHIO, AD 1975
RECIPE. MINNESOTA, AD 2003
FALSE DOOR. EGYPT, GIZA, 2400 BCE
INCANTATION
The Body as Reliquary
I Keep a Jar of Clay Beside My Bed
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
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