Table of Contents
Bearded Homeless Man Comes to the Unitarian Church Door 11
Matthew 13:33 13
Commiserating With Another Parent 14
Daughters Over Sons 15
Steppe 17
Outcrop 18
The winter moth orbits the light 19
With the Zoologist in the Closed Exhibit 20
Circus Man 21
Black Cat 22
tanstaafl 23
Bearded Swimmer 24
At the Catfish Symposium 25
The Reef 26
Water 28
Butte 29
Hoodoos 30
A Wild Boar Stampedes My House at Night 31
Bird by Bird-She Says She is a Writer! 32
Gully 33
To the Father of My Children 34
Once a Woman 36
formation 37
Black Sting Ray 38
adrenal over heart 39
River 40
"The child I never had." 41
Sunday Afternoon at Mission Park 42
Bathroom Photo 43
Farm 44
On Her Second Birthday 46
After He Leaves the Barn 47
With No Father 48
whip her with hair 50
Chance 51
Attachment 52
Placement 53
For My Papa, Alfonso Alberto Lopez de Nada (Abel) from Tabasco, Zacatecas 54
The Fall of One Unitarian Church 56
Tabula Rasa 57
Eulogy for John Berryman 58
Glacier 59
Acknowledgments 62