Musca Domestica Book

Introduction by Heather McHugh	xi
True and Obscure Definitions of Fly, Domestic and Otherwise	3
Helicopter Wrecked on a Hill	7
Highway Address	8
Notes from the House Sitter	9
Map Drawn from Memory by My Brother	11
Lies Concerning Speed	13
Fifty-two Weeks	14
Total Things Known about Motion	15
The Hummed Space between Marooned and Migration	18
Various Readings of an Illegible Postcard	19
Dialogue of Thunder	20
Steps to Entering the Whole Feeling	21
Report	22
Found between Flyleaf and Title Page in Florence
Nightingale's Notes on Nursing, Second Edition	23
Welcome the Desert Bandit	25
A Million Futures of Late	26
Interview	28
A Thin Pissing Sound	30
Mimicry	31
Regard the Horse's Feet from Behind	35
Old Song Keeps Arriving	36
Extracted Gravity	37
Evolving Laws	38
Foghorns	39
Circumference	40
Ladder	43
Sick	47
A Spell in 839 Letters	48
Articulate Initials	49
Idea for an Echo	51
Without Prejudice or Intent: A Survey of Long Distance	52
Aimee under Icicles	54
On Our Way to Meet Your Body Bag	55
Abridging the Correspondence	56
The Mistaken	57
Oak Avenue under the Magnifying Glass	58
Occupied Foundation	60
Miraculous Panoptic Precipitations	61
Echolocation	62
Licked: A Domestic Tale	63
Town Legend: Keeping Well	65
Called Up to Carpenter a New Tradition, We Make Use of a
Standard Round Table	66
i. The Glass Is a Hand	68
ii. A Headlight Is the Gaping	69
iii. Glass and Water Light a Fan	70
Notes: Fly Paper Palimpsest	73
Acknowledgments	75