Contents
Prologue and Return
Red Mountains
Burying the Dead
The Baptist Steeple
Threat of Spring
Tracks
Path
I Wake to Find I Am Not Awake
The Cleaving
Return to Steinhatchee
Ashes and Dust
Almost Clean
Worm Grunters
Darwin Dreams of the Second Coming
Toilet Flowers
Magritte’s Daemon
Wild Kingdom
Hamlet beside the Stream
Coaxing the Coal Back to Life
Overburden
On Speaking with an Old Schoolmate after His Physics Lecture at a Local University
Elegy for Jessica Hayden
Offerings
Mine Rats
Eden’s Oranges
After Bloody Mary’s Death
Back Door
Reclamation
Tulips and Pigs
The Other Woman
Charter
Gauguin’s Bed
Mountain of Fire
“La mar es una puta”
Floundering
On Reading Huckleberry Finn
Stake Horse
The Mule
Grabbing
Methane
Some Like It Hot
Mayflies
Take Over
Brick Hammer and Broken Watch
The Motel Room
Mantrip
The Old Salt’s Brag
Worms: Georg Cantor, From Halle Sanatorium, 1884
Epilogue and Return