Table of Contents
I would like to be the you in someone's poem 9
Letter in the Time of Junkmail 11
Seine with Airplane Voyeurism & References to Your Body 13
The Seeming Impenetrability of the Space Between 16
All the Past and Futures 18
Seven Fragments About Christmas and an Episode of Night Swimming 20
Medium Adam 25 22
Eternity Now 25
Elegy with Lo-Fi Selfie 27
From this thought a hazy question 29
Nude Selfie Ode 31
Aubade with Projector 34
Are You Popular? (1947) 35
Beyond Which 37
Letter to Hillary on the Radical Hospitality of the Body 39
Invitation to Tender 41
The bureau of reclamation 43
This Volatile Taxonomy 45
A Temple of the Spirit 47
All the Secrets and Holes 49
Now That I Can See the Light 51
Swift Trucks 53
Ghost Eden 56
Missing Parts 58
An Occupation of Loss 61
A Brief Ontological Investigation 63
The Practice of Depicting Matter as It Passes from Radiance to Decomposition 65
Letter from around the way 67
Message from the Interior 69
Smith Street, 1998 70
What Follows Is a Reconstruction Based on the Best Available Evidence 71
We used to go to the Bulgarian Bar but not together 73
The Replication Machine 74
Welcome to Fear City: A Survival Guide 76
The Last Decade of the 20th Century 78
Come Correct 79
Remember Me as a Time of Day 80
The experience we are thrust into 82
Letter on Gratitude 84
My List of True Facts 85
Beyond Which 87
Notes 91
Acknowledgments 94
About the Author 97
Colophon 104