An exquisite and humane collection set to leave its mark on American poetics of the body and the body politic.

Contents
I.

The Magic of Apricot
Tricolor
Progress Notes
Echo #1
Thank You

Maqam of Palm Trees
Horses
1st Love
Beanstalk
Colored Rings

The Hour of the Grackle
Footnotes to a Picture
National Park
Plethora
Epithalamion

An Algebra Come Home
Chamber Music
The Scream
The Living Are the Minority
Footnotes to a Song

II. Sagittal Views

After No Language
In the Garden
After Wine
I, the Sole Witness to My Despair, Declare
Europa and the Bull

"Wisswass"
Last Night's Fever, This Morning's Murder
I, the Sole Witness to My Despair, Declare
Alignment
In a Cemetery under a Solitary Walnut Tree That Crows

III.

Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance
Kohl
Body of Meaning
Tea and Sage
Nonterminal

Poem for Godot
Echo #14
Palestine, Texas
Some Things
The Floor Is Yours

Bloodline
I Dreamed You
38, 7, 31, 4
Traditional Anger (in the Sonora)
Almost Your Life

Corona Radiata
Sphinx Poem
I Love My Life
My Shakespeare
Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance

Acknowledgments and Notes