Turning to Fiction: Poems Book

	A sign	17
	Two grapefruits	19
	Three card Monte	20
	Natural history	22
	Slowly	24
	Summer	26
	This girl's mother kept her umbilical cord in a class jar on the top shelf of the kitchen cabinet	27
	Communion	28
	The world gains luster as it falls apart	30
	Longing	33
	Phone sex	34
	What she can't say when he leans toward her and whispers begin	37
	Ending	40
	Persuasion	42
	Girl reading	47
	Chair	51
	Reconciliation	55
	The trap	56
	Half her story	58
	Writing the story	60
	Learning to read	63
	Termites	69
	Eleven-headed female figure	72
	Dickens village	75
	What I have left	83
	Waiting for the subway to St. Vincent's reading the Tibetan book of living and dying	88
	Blood	90
	Summer 2002 : blackout	92
	Holy saturday	95
	St. Augustine's dog	97
	Attending	99
	Spiritual awakening	101
	Body and soul	103
	Reading to Marie from Evelyn Underhill's Mysticism on the train from Florence to Spoleto	105
	It happens	107
	Ne Me Quitte Pas	110