Cover
Contents
Con/verge
Crossing
How Borders are Built
Bibbed in Paisley he Reads Žižek Instead
Dear Angel,
Sunday Mornings
The Corner Store Clerk Says Her Name was Ofelia
After I Read Your Obituary
Photos Found on a Dead Man’s Phone
Because They Lack Country
angel & i
Broken Initials
In a Half-full Bathtub
I Light the House on Fire and Lie down
Notes on Ciudad Juárez, As a Play
The Verging Cities Watch Me
When The Desert Made Us Visible
Di/verge
Succulence
It’s The Heat That Wakes Us
Woman Found Near Sunland Park Mall
A Torero’s Daughter is Killed
La Mariscal Ciudad Juárez, México
Placement
A Place to Hide The Body
Guerrero Pears
The Archeologist Came to Hunt Trilobites
In a Dust Storm
Mouth in my Kitchen
Angel Reassures Me I Have Escaped The Verging Cities
A Mass Grave Washed
When The Desert Made Us iInvisible
Re/Merge
Epithalamia
Verge
Angels Fall From The Sky to El Paso, Texas
The City is a Body Swallowed
A Journalist’s Field Notes on The Kentucky Club
Girl Curled Over a Bar Stool
The Verging Cities
The City Is A Body Broken
In The Morning I Feel Angel’s Freath
Because You Don’t Have a Social Security Number
Angel and I Are Both Great Pretenders,
Like Victorian Women
Your Mouth Is Full
The Sun that Tends to Fields of Grain burns
Endnotes on Ciudad Juárez
How Borders Collapse
Acknowledgments