Contents
Memoir
I
Self-Portrait with Monk
You Ask Why I Buy Pineapples and Let Them Go to Waste
Chernobyl
The Summer I Waited for the Revolution and Fell for Peacocks
The Red Eviction
Rehearsal
Grigorescu’s Țiganca
II
Sheela na gig
Plaza de Las Flores
III
Alien Resident
My Son, at Six
The Immigrant Wife’s Song
Beets
Turning the Bones
Ana to Manole
Romanian Touch
Fig Wasps: Trafficking
IV
Radioactive Wolves: A Retelling
V
Ghost Mothers: Un-naming
Doina Speaks: How I Escaped
The Undertaker’s Report
VI
Clawed Soleares with Strong Sun and Suitcases
The Gorge of Ronda
Elegy for Rick(ster)
La Bella Principessa
VII
Memoir
Still Life with Placenta and Cherry Tree
Refugee Song
Untitled
Orphan Song
VIII
Still Life with Apples, Pajamas, and Miners
Innocence
Immigrant Model
Notes
Acknowledgments