Table of Contents
I What Was
Argument 3
Junipers 4
The Road 5
The Pepper Shakers Were Filled to the Brim with Hosts of Swallows 6
Visual Analysis of Grief and You 7
Death Toll 8
II A Month of Grievances
Negotiation 11
Expectations 12
Afternoon 13
Disagreement 14
Concerns 15
Dispatch 16
The Unmentionable Worship of Idle Afternoons 17
Resolution 18
Opposition 19
Devotion 20
Optimism 21
Revelation 22
Nonchalance 23
Apology 24
Politics 25
Opinions 26
Persistence 27
Intimate 28
Couples Going Nude into the Sad Water 29
Wonderment 30
Littoral 31
Acrimony 32
All the Arts of Hurting 33
Proposal 34
The Immortelles of Perfect Pitch 35
Seduction Act 36
Parameters 37
Mercy 38
Beginnings 39
Saturnine 40
III Blur
What Was Said 43
Tête-à-Tête 44
The Possibility of an Ending 45
Almost a Lament 46
Postpartum 47
The Question of Surrender 48
An Autobiography of Asphalt 49
Memory 50
IV Might
Winding Down 53
One Dog Will Find Us Both 54
Sentience (cont'd) 55
Swallows 56
Vigilance 57
The Then & Now of Dusks 58
The Letter 59
Substance 60
The Only Love Poem 61
Manifest 62
Migrations 63
Notes 65
Acknowledgments 73