Contents
The Mother of Mermaids
What the Ancient Greek Sailors Knew
What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?
Echoes
Sibling Rivalry
A Very Asian Variation
Bird
On the Lesser-Known Uses of Meat Tenderizer
Private Rituals
Purses
Losing Myself in Art
Neurology Ward Sketchbook
Patti Smith, 1976
Deipnosophistae
To John Ashbery
The Ballad of Great-Uncle Chi
Posture
Woman behind the Lens
Women Who Conjure Owls
Venus Frigida
Golden Shovel in the Voice of Margot Begemann
Yellowed Weeds Deranged
Sirenian Sermon
The Morning after the Election
Gusanoz
Bird-Watching in the Aftermath
Quixotic
Dispatch from Hanover, New Hampshire
Capgras/Seagrass
How I Know Implicit Bias Exists
Please Don’t Tell Me How the Story Ends
To a Physician Killed by Gun Violence
The Origami Master Breakfasts with His New Apprentice
The Fairy Tale Now Finished
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
The Reader
New York Living
A Failed Georgic
Rosebud, Pustule, Breast
I, Casimir Zorawski, a Mathematician of Poland,
¡Almas Hermanas Mías!
deep men
November
Mania
I Sing: Holy
Homemade Eclipse Glasses
A Cultural Artifact
How We Met
Ti˙nh Do˙ Tông
Waking from Anesthesia
A Life
Against Empiricism
Picky Picky
Standing between My Parents at Manatee Lagoon
We Are All at Least 50 Percent Water
Acknowledgments