Contents
Fable
Part 1
Still Birth
Temporary River
Remarks on the Morning’s Work in Winter
The Wife
The Mistress
A Bathing Gown a Girl Can Make
The Only House in the Neighborhood
The Lord Is Risen Indeed
Sisters
White Sheep. White Cloud.
Gentle Doctor
1917
Part 2
Exhumation
My Grandmother’s Belongings
Mary
To My Daughter
Surrogate
Instructions for Marriage by Capture
Wallflower
Instructions for Marriage by Service
By Jove
Our Furry Friends
The Performance
Letter from a New England Girl
Charmed
Your Server for This Evening
Laying the Cloth, Et Cetera
Employment
Blackfly
Possible Names for a Country House
August Postcard
My Dearest Doll
Remembering Your Young Love
Part 3
Gaikotsu
Love Poem
Kids These Days
Tending the Flocks (England, 1790)
Prion
Don’t
The Best Bones
Home
Pajamas
Ophelia
The Artist’s Boy
The New Family
About the Hammer
The Monastery
Calendar
When You Are Dead
Blue Whale
Notes
Acknowledgments