Contents
Introduction | Jericho Brown
SOME ARE DROWNING
The Difficult Music
The New World
Slaves
Paradise
The Lucky One
Sappho’s Fragment Thirty-One Revised
Two or Three Things I Know about Him
Kindertotenlieder
Two Boys Glimpsed in Late Light
The First Farewell to Antinoüs
Tantalus in May
Sunday
Until She Returns
ANGEL, INTERRUPTED
Depth of Field
Narcissus at the Adonis Theater
Two Versions of Midsummer
My Brother the Rain
A Man Named Troy
He and Sleep Were Brothers
The Gods at Three a.m.
Jouissance
Black Ice on Green Dolphin Street
Drawing from Life
Tornado Watch
Same Cooke Would Be Sixty-One This Year
A Plague for Kit Malone
A Little Knowledge
Narcissus and the Namesake River
WRONG
Antibody
Deepest of the Great Lakes, Largest Too
Surface Effects in Summer Wind
Vampires
Hermes, the Trickster
Locale
Who Owns the Night and Leases the Stars
That Man
Littler Sonnet
Nights and Days of Nineteen-Something
OTHERHOOD
Reasons for Living
Little Hands
Periplus
Burnt from the Notebooks
Three Songs about Snow
Les Semblables
Hygiene
Apollo on What the Boy Gave
Apollo Steps in Daphne’s Footprints
Semantics at Four p.m.
Cygnus
Weather Comes from the West
Manifest
Imaginary Elegy
FATA MORGANA
Orpheus Plays the Bronx
How People Disappear
For My Mother in Lieu of Mourning
Pear Tree, Bartlett, Quotations
At Weep
Things Waiting to Be Dangerous
Eve’s Awakening
Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear
Self-Portrait in the New World Order
A Handful of Sand
With the Wind Blowing Through It
Light Years
RED CLAY WEATHER
Attempted Bidcage Number Three
To Be Free
The New Life
My Mother Was No White Dove
What Nature Doesn't Show
My Mother Dated Otis Redding
Flying
Falling
Some Dreams He Forgot
Play Dead
Next Year in Gomorrah
Kings Go Forth
Seize the Day