Contents
Rookeries
Dark Traffic
Naŋitkia / he beat her
White Alice Gone to Hell
Milk Black Carbon
Gray Eraser
Various Instructions for Translating Her Past
White Alice White Alice White Alice White Alice White Alice
Dark Passage
Direct and Proximate Cause Stele
White Alice
Game With Failed Absolute
To List
White Alice Changes Hands
White Alice Goes to Hell
Upon Learning That She’s Hung a Fox Pelt
Imaq
The Sea
On Never Looking Upward in Battle
Fieldwork
Wellhead
Visitors
Long before She Was Betrayed
Siġmanaq at Refuge Rock
Ring Species
Shot in Sobriety
Terror (& Erebus)
Starvation Episode
I Defer a Second Opinion
Sometimes There Are Even Scars
And One More Surprise with Fine Excess
Amauti
Counterpane
Innuŋuaq :: Playhouse
A Language without Drought
War Poem
Nunataq
White Alice Changes
Darker Passage
Rehearsal for Surveying the Ruins
The Erasure of Colonial Shape
Whatever It Can Seize
I Am Chopping Ivory or Bone
Polynya
Another Bright Departure
Seiche
Cutting the River
Acknowledgments