Table of Contents
Part 1
The train blew through 15
Now that I live 16
The capon exploded 17
We met at a birthday party 18
The rain has stopped 19
I rarely leave 20
You are floating 21
Where have all 22
Stranger to herself 23
My mother was 24
Frogs fell from the sky 25
I wait for snow 26
Light stutters down 27
Another day in paradise 28
She began with the idea 29
The daughter of a 30
Because they said 31
You knock on the door 32
The angel is an argument 33
Every day, from 34
Cockroaches swarmed over 35
In grade three 36
What do sailors 37
My mother took me 38
All sons go 39
The caretaker rescues 40
My grandfather lay motionless 41
The name I was given 42
Darkness arrives without 43
In grade school 44
I try to follow 45
People who suffer 46
The poet keeps a jar 47
All afternoon an elephant 48
I'm three, she said 49
From time to time 50
Every word he wrote 51
A five-year-old asks 52
In our basement 53
All morning wind 54
Prometheus is at it again 55
Since the stroke, I 56
After the flood, creation 57
My neighbour is a magician 58
Part 2
Five members of the monster 61
Child with a toy hand grenade 62
Kid in a hooded jacket 63
A Jewish giant at home 64
The Junior Interstate Ballroom 65
Identical twins, Roselle 66
The backwards man 67
Windblown headline 68
Boy stepping off the curb 69
Jack Dracula at a bar 70
Woman carrying a child 71
Girl with a pointy hood 72
Part 3
Bear with me 75
Riding home 76
At ninety-one 77
He'll just slip away 78
Your lungs, those little sacs 79
In the living room 80
Floating on a makeshift 81
Gathered at your bedside 82
Like Baudelaire's moon 83
The horses, when I 84
Notes and Acknowledgments
About the Author
