Table of contents

  1. “About the author (not pictured)”
  2. “About the author”
  3. “AMBER alert”
  4. “And”
  5. “The angel to Abraham”
  6. “On seeing the panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site”
  7. “Art”
  8. “Axe”
  9. “The big dipper”
  10. “The boar”
  11. “Boy on the bus”
  12. “Building”
  13. “Call me aural pleasure”
  14. “Cereal”
  15. “Cold wind”
  16. “Instrumented: a collage”
  17. “Creation myth”
  18. “Dead man”
  19. “The death zone”
  20. “Death’s trumpet”
  21. “Something about my tenure as a bear”
  22. “Dream”
  23. “Early”
  24. “Elegy for an alternate self”
  25. “Ex machina”
  26. “Exasperated”
  27. “Father”
  28. “Feeding the raven”
  29. “Finding the lion”
  30. “Fire”
  31. “Look: a found typewriter poem”
  32. “Hands”
  33. “A hard game”
  34. “Hardware”
  35. “How it happened”
  36. “Hymnal”
  37. “I am”
  38. “I think it’s you (but it’s not)”
  39. “I want to say”
  40. “I wanted to tell you something”
  41. “In bed”
  42. “Initial conditions”
  43. “January”
  44. “Joke”
  45. “L’appel du vide”
  46. “The largest asteroid in the asteroid belt”
  47. “Last bastion”
  48. “Last passenger”
  49. “Leaf”
  50. “Leg”
  51. “Liking things”
  52. “Listen”
  53. “Love as god”
  54. “Love song”
  55. “Man”
  56. “The moon is drowning”
  57. “The moon is gone and in its place a mirror”
  58. “The mountain”
  59. “Moving sideways”
  60. “Something about all music being performances of 4′33″ in places where other bands happen to be playing”
  61. “No nothing”
  62. “Notes”
  63. “Nothing is ever over”
  64. “100 lines”
  65. “On formal poetry”
  66. “Options”
  67. “Ouroboros of memory”
  68. “Paul”
  69. “Peaches”
  70. “Philosophy”
  71. “Phone”
  72. “Planks”
  73. “Litany for a plant”
  74. “Something about the nature of poetry and time”
  75. “Prelude”
  76. “Problems”
  77. “Proverbs”
  78. “Punch”
  79. “The purpose of dogs”
  80. “Question”
  81. “A real writer”
  82. “Reports”
  83. “Riptide of memory”
  84. “Ronald McDonald”
  85. “Rough gloves”
  86. “Sapling”
  87. “Seasonal affective disorder”
  88. “Sense of it”
  89. “Serengeti”
  90. “Shed”
  91. “Shipwright”
  92. “The sixteenth chapel”
  93. “Snow”
  94. “Something simple”
  95. “Spittle”
  96. “The squirrel”
  97. “Stagnant”
  98. “Statements”
  99. “Stayed on the bus too long”
  100. “Stump”
  101. “Swan song (alternate)”
  102. “Swan song”
  103. “Swear”
  104. “A table of contents”
  105. “Tapestry”
  106. “Telemarketer”
  107. “The night we met, I was out of my mind”
  108. “The sea and the beach”
  109. “The ocean overflows with camels”
  110. “Time looks up to the sky”
  111. “To Daniel”
  112. “Toilet”
  113. “Toothpaste”
  114. “Treatise”
  115. “Underwear”
  116. “Walking in the rain”
  117. “Wallpaper”
  118. “We played those games too”
  119. “What we are made of”
  120. “Whem I’m sorry I wash dishes”
  121. “Window”
  122. “Worse looking over”
  123. “Writing”
  124. “X-ray”
  125. “Yellow”