TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. Nature
A Little Feast
In Medias Res
Vultures
The Longing
The Squirrel
Romance
Honeymoon
Speaking of Cats
Axis
Nature
From the Lava Papers
Help Wanted on the Westbound Train
The Corpse
In the Chronicles of Paradise
The Drawstring
The Trouble with Nightingales
II. Mary’s Boys
Mary’s Boys
Jack
Hymie
Fat Leo
Joseph
III. Wrapping Up the Lost
Transformations
Wrapping Up the Lost
Ancestry
Between You, Me, and the Great Wallendas
Even Then, My Mother’s Face
Blame
The Chicken Flag
The Exile
Forgive and Forget
The Substitute
Flying Home
Crystal
Storage
Diapers for My Father
IV. Hunger
The Papaya
Hunger
Matisse’s Windows
Sunday Morning at the Beach, I think of Mountains
At St. John’s Monastery
Confession
Letter from an Empty House
White River
Under Water
From the Looking Glass
Unfinished Lines
Poem for Trees
