Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
I
Accomplice or Hostage
Killer Tomatoes
How I Learned About Evolution
Men Decide They Want Something
Knife Rules
Parts We Can Live Without
A Treatise on the Broken Heart Idiom
Fish Story
Lessons
Cubist Mother
Dendrochronology
Bargain
Sockets
A Girl Scout Is Useful, Thrifty, Cheerful, Courteous, Clean in Thought, and, Above All, Loyal
Hostages
Hail Satan
Before After
Why Science Lessons That Involve Potatoes Give Me Grief
Dollhouse Furniture
II
Phainopepla
Fertilizer
Three Ways to Eat Quince
An Arm or a Palm Frond or a Boot
What We Expect to See
Feng Shui
Glow
The Funny Thing
The Scream Queen Is Bored
Tobe’s Baby
I’m Just Talking About Water
The Point
Impulses
Before and After
Palate Cleanser
Eden
Binary Code
III
One or Two?
Business Enough
Snapshot
Deposition
Night Bloom
Dead Plant
Carrot
Snow White with Goats
Cake or Pie
Frogs in Captivity
My Husband Is Always Losing Things
Return
No Knees
Common Denominator
High Ground
Things My Son Knows
Barrel Cactus
Tea Kettles
Migration
Manhandle
Muscle Memory
Acknowledgments
