Table of Contents
Self Portrait as Curious Lunatic's Sketch of a Dancing Girl 3
In the Case of Mlle. Zina Brozia of the Paris Grand Opera Versus M. Jean Metzinger, Cubist 5
The Giant Artichoke 7
End Times 9
Baba Yaga Rides It's a Small World 10
Driving After Rain 11
Requiem for No Hands 13
Ofelia Plays Like a Girl 15
Baba Yaga Appears in Intro to Feminist Theory for an Impromptu Lecture 16
The Hungry Eye 18
Ode to Theda 20
The Altogether 22
The Louvre Saloon, San Jose: Hatchetation, 1903 23
Matryoshka (as Madness) 24
Suicide Notes (as M.C. Escher's Impossible Constructions) 27
Ofelia Has Not Seen Even One of the Seven Wonders of the World, and People Keep Making New Lists 30
At 14, I Would Have Traded Adulthood for a Role in CATS 32
Sketch: Charcoal and Body on Paper 33
Duchamp's Nude Descending Speaks 34
How to Become Stained Glass 35
Ofelia Looks for Anger at the Metropolitan Museum 36
Geodes 38
Letters to Phryne 40
Late American Aubade 50
Spread Spectrum 51
Audrey Munson Committed to the St. Lawrence State Asylum for the Insane, 1931 53
Gem State 54
Tabloid Elegy 56
The Meteorologist Receives More Letters Asking 58
Audrey Munson Reimagines Her Life as Still Life 59
Baba Yaga Invites Fort Worth Girl Scout Troop #23 for a Campout 60
Seine with Pomona: The Goddess of Abundance 62
Notes on the Poems 63
Acknowledgments 65