Contents
A Labor of Moles....................3
Chorus of Animals....................4
The Anesthesiologist's Kiss....................6
Alarm....................7
Dead Reckoning....................8
Milk-Truck Driver....................10
Oh, Hi Dad....................11
Local or Strange....................12
Murmurations in the Wilderness....................14
What the Right Hand Knows....................17
My Orbit....................20
Laments and Riddles....................21
Living on Someone Else's Money....................23
You Two?....................24
An Act of Forbearance....................26
The Green Street Mortuary Band....................29
Mirror, Mirror....................31
Phocion's Wife....................35
Zoo Story....................37
Doors Should Always Swing Into a Room....................38
Gioconda on Seventh Avenue....................39
Among the Missing....................40
The Peacocks of Cuernavaca....................44
The Only Fruit....................45
Learning to Land....................47
The View from Here....................51
The Metaphysics of Being Well-Mannered....................52
Body Electric....................53
No Fear of Fire....................56
Table of Spiders....................58
Voodoo....................60
For Rent....................61
Beekeeper....................64
Here and Now....................65
A Possum Entering the Argument....................67