Contents
I
At the Holiday Crafts Fair
The Failure of Language
The Magic Show
Home Visit
At the Edge of the Vineyard
The Routine After Forty
Why I’m Here
Eulogy in Advance of Death
My Mother’s Refrigerator
At the Pool
Cigarettes
The Gift That Arrives Broken
II
What Is There
The Soloist
Deviant
At the Table
Celebrity Cooking
Circus School
High
Holiday Weekend
How We Make It Work
The Conductor
If All Poems Are Elegies
Other People’s Lives
The Weight of Blood
Dying Alone
III
Gin
Good
Teaching My Husband to Swim
The Subject of Endings
False Spring
Sometimes
Watching Them Sleep
The Moon Nears Dawn
If We Could Choose
Notes and Acknowledgments
The Autumn House Poetry Series