Table of Contents
I Underworld
A Postcard from Greece 3
Hades Welcomes His Bride 4
Persephone Writes a Letter to Her Mother 6
From Whose Bourn No Traveller 9
Eurydice Reveals Her Strength 10
Eurydice's Footnote 12
How the Demons Were Assimilated & Became Productive Citizens 14
The Dogdom of the Dead 16
All Hallows 17
II A Bestiary
Cardinal Numbers 21
Words of Prey 23
Watching the Vulture at the Road Kill 24
Why the Saying Is "As the Crow Flies" 25
Listening to the Monkeys of the Nearby Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center 26
RepRoach 28
Lullaby for Insomniacs 29
Elegy for a Loggerhead Turtle Washed Up on a South Carolina Beach 31
A Lament for the Dead Pets of Our Childhood 33
III Tour Of The Labyrinth
Homecoming 37
Consolation for Tamar 38
Apollo Takes Charge of His Muses 39
Crazy to Hear the Tale Again (The Fall of Troy) 40
Medea, Homesick 41
The Wife of the Man of Many Wiles 42
Ariadne and the Rest 43
Tour of the Labyrinth 47
Aeaea 48
Daphne 49
Arachne Gives Thanks to Athena 50
Tithonus 51
Vale 52
IV For The Losers of Things
The Mistake 59
The Tantrum 60
Fishing 61
The Poet's Dream of Herself as a Young Girl 62
The School of Dreams 64
Study in White 66
On Viewing an Exhibit of Paintings, The Treasures of Venice 67
The Machines Mourn the Passing of People 68
Menielle 70
Watching the News After the Tornadoes 71
The Man Who Wouldn't Plant Willow Trees 72
Moving Sale 73
Where We Moved To 74
Airing 76
For the Losers of Things 77
The Poet's Sister 78
Elegy for the Lost Umbrella 80
Why Reason Can't Overcome an Irrational Fear 81
Night Shift 82
