Contents
I. Smudging
Ode to Nitrous Oxide
To the Furies Who Visited Me in the Basement of Duane Reade
The Tip
After My Husband Moved Out His Things
Unpairing: Proofreading My Marriage
First Words, Last Words
Scenes from an Ideal Marriage
Sisypha Retires
Sunglasses in the Subway
Gnats
The Shame of the Adulterer’s Wife
Smudging: A Recipe
Ode to My Vajayjay
I Dreamed We Were
Rags Meant
II. Playing My Part
What I Knew
For the Alabaster Figure from the Cyclades
The Shell
Eurydice’s Testimony
The Necklace
Playing My Part
Gaslit
To a Jumbo Sea Worm at the Aquarium in Cornwall
Char’d Endings
To My Orange Reading Glasses
Not a Vase
Knot His to S[t]ay
Should Have
Desire and the Lack
III. Happiness Is Luck
Phonography
Forward Sestina (Dylanesque)
For I Will Consider the Overlooked Dragonfly
With You
Foehn
As Ants, in Their Dark Company, Will Touch
From the Cricket Cage
Inamorato: A Triolet
If Happiness is Luck
Now that
Duende
Gypsy Ballad
Notes
Acknowledgments