Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Finding the Old Family Farm 1
Ukraine
In the Absence of Clocks 5
Crimea, an Unexpected Freeze 6
On the Holiday for the Dead 7
Graduation Day 8
The Dogs 9
Childhoods 10
The New Clock Tower 11
Secret Police 12
Babushka Baba Yaga 13
A Brief History of Ukraine 14
North Toward Kiev
To Ukraine 17
Mapping the Republics of the Dead 18
Far South, an Unexpected Heat 19
The Danger in Leaving Her 20
Under the River Named God 21
Dear Father 22
Bread 23
Mountain Answers 24
Remains 25
A Crumbling Shroud Covers Reactor Number 4 26
Some Pilgrimage 27
Orange Revolution
Kiev 31
Revolution Comes to Kiev, Masha Comes to Kiev 32
Listening Device 33
Monument 34
The Orange Revolution 35
Masha in the Afternoon 36
Remember 37
Countrymen 38
Sex and the Orange Revolution 39
Baptism of Kiev 40
Revolution 41
Boundary Waters
Masha Back Home 45
Her Mother, Somehow Surprised 46
A New Economy, the Old Currency 47
Her Village, Once Starved until All the Animals and All the Bullets Were Gone 48
Ghost Sick 49
Violin and Sea 50
Untitled 51
Her Hair, Twin Braids of Dark Clove 52
Paradise 53
Come Back 54
What I Saw 55
Finding the Old Family Farm II 56
Summer 57