Contents
A Seamless Forgetting
What Entices May Finally Recede
Startled by Green
The Absence of Lake
Eve Screams for the Hoe
The Woman Who Allowed Light to Have Its Way with Her
The Day He Disappeared
How the Muse Keeps Trying to Elude Me
Where You Touched My Arm
Eve Begs Adam to Play His Guitar
A Man Calls to Say My Son Is on a Farm for Alcoholics outside Jackson, Mississippi
The Other Life
Eve’s Out at the Edge
The Wrong Dress
Adam Tries to Explain to God That None of This Is His Fault
Relapse
Leaving the Garden
Suffused in the Heat
Scattered Typing
Eve’s Growing Concern
After Detox
Deprivation
Eve’s Sorrows Multiplying
Dread Begs to Fondle Your Breasts
Eve Dreams of Mary Todd Lincoln
I Hang Up the Phone after Hearing I Have Cancer
At a Flea Market, A Woman Buys a Letter Postmarked 1944, From Sybil Reed to Louis Mack
The Wink
To the Neighbor Whose Gardenias I Stole Last Spring
The Vaster Blue
She Never Thought of Vegetables
The Day Before My Father Died
Wake the Tree
Better to Know the Woodcutter Might Never Arrive at the Cottage
The Reconstructed Breast
Eve’s Not a Bad Mimic
In the Two-Week Relapse Prevention Program, My Son Writes a Forty-Six-Page Autobiography
The Woman Who Only Went up to the Neck
Never Mind My Own Sweet Cottage
A Reason to Embrace Sorrow
What Happened to My Parents
The Chair Where I Sat Reading While My Parents Made Love
I Try to Tear Myself Away from a Jigsaw Puzzle during the Last Minutes of Vacation
Long Distance
Sometimes They Just Lie There