Contents
The Smallest Plant
I.
The Floor-Creatures Begin
Song Cycle
Amaryllis
The Sleepers
Vespers
And on the Seventh Day
(A) Version
A Palimpsest of the Tasks
Still-Life with Interior
And of the Words Afterwards
II.
Envelopes of Sky
Like a Near Fold
Sublimation Attempt
Solstice
Where Are They Now, Unwilling Friends
The Word
Or Portals to Another World
III.
The Lonely Animal
Dear Lonely Animal [Please share my Korean food with me]
Dear Lonely Animal [Last night I wanted nachos again]
Dear Lonely Animal [I miss you. The other animals]
Dear Lonely Animal [Let?s have a collection competition]
Dear Lonely Animal [Sometimes I could just]
Dear Lonely Animal [I?m writing to you from the loneliest, most]
IV.
Text Message
The Practice
That?s Enough, Mr. Butterfly
The Return
A Hood Is Like an Ancient Chalice
Maroon Canoe
Today Mr. Rufo
The Bells
Spring
V. The Mandrake Vehicles
Note on the Mandrake Form
[Mandrake vehicle 1]
[not knowing enough to shriek when (not knowing when), they]
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(liquid layer 1, excerpt)
[Towing no ghost, no wing, the]
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[Winnowing heart]
[Mandrake vehicle 2]
[while the outpour, while the spilling tenets
of green, the green]
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[Weep, Lethe?s linnets, greet]
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[Thin paeans rust]
[Mandrake vehicle 3]
[for it promised sleep in delicate voice, for how must
the]
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[Poised sin: deliver. Oust]
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[Silver U.S. bombs]