Table of Contents
Guide for the Channeling 6
Declassified 8
The Fact of the Matter Is the Consequence of Ugly Deaths 10
Anthem for Taking Back 12
They Think Our Killed Ones Cannot Speak to Us 13
A Body Always Yours 18
111 of the Dubious 20
When the Poison Fell, Before 1979 21
A Daub of Tree Swallows as Aerial Ash 25
Case Studies in Escape, Post-1975 27
Fewer Hmong Are Dying Now Than in the Past 31
Signal for the Way Out 33
Self-Portrait Together as CBW Questionnaire 34
Composition 1 37
Blood Cooperation 47
Specimens from Ban Vinai Camp, 1983 48
Authorization to Depart Ravaged Homeland as Biomedical Sample 51
Arriving as Lost 53
Ever Tenuous 55
Futile to Find You 60
Procedures in Hunt of Wreckage 62
Disfigures 65
Request for Furthermore 67
We Can't Confirm Yellow Rain Happened, We Can't Confirm It Didn't 70
Composition 2 73
Subterfuge 82
This Demands the Vengeance of a Wolf 83
Agent Orange Commando Lava 85
Toxicology Conference Proposal 90
Smear of Petals 92
Syndrome Sleep Death Sudden 94
Skin as a Vehicle for Experimentation 96
A Moment Still Waiting for You 99
For the Nefarious 100
Composition 3 101
The Culpable 110
Sverdlovsk 111
Malediction 114
Never to Have Had Your Song Blessed 116
Notes in Rebuttal: What They May Have Known about the Possibility 117
All of a Sudden, Yellow Spots 120
Recantation for the Quieting 121
Il/Logic, Fully Unvetted: A Makeshift Analysis of the Behavior of Southeast Asian Honeybees 123
Prayer to the Redwood 128
Allied with the Bees 130
Composition 4 133
Noxious 142
Orderly Wrap-Up of CBW Investigation 143
Of the Ash 144
Vigil for the Missing 146
The Shaman Asks about Yellow Rain 147
Refugee, Walking Is the Most Human of All 149
Revolt of Bees 151
Composition 5 153
Burn Copies 162
Diary Notes from Meeting on September 13, 1983 163
For as Long as a Mountain Can Ascend 165
Subject: ROI 166
How Far for the Small Ones 168
Monument 170
Sorrowed 171
Manifesto of a Drum 176
And Yet Still More 180
Notes 183
Acknowledgments 205