A poetry chapbook in three parts.

CONTENTS

I. Spread to Map

Palm Sunday
Start My Apple
Stranger
Primary
My Ex-Father Laughs on the Freeway
intercession
I am an almost.
While Your Mother Suffocated
7th circuit
Good Friday


II. Black Saturday

Comas
Orbweaver
chiasma
Vacancy
My Mother Called Me Up and Told Me What to Wear
Closure
Holy Wednesday
Town with No Name
My Ex-Father Makes His Presence Felt
Witness
Pony Bottles
Black Sand Icaro
Learn to Swallow
Margaret Hamilton’s Green Copper Makeup Ignites During a Disappearance Scene -or- Electroconvulsive Therapy: 30 to 70 Cycles per Second Bilaterally to the Temperofrontal Region of the Skull Until a Grand Mal Seizure Results
We admitted we were powerless, that our lives had become unmanageable.
Black Saturday


III. Animal Prayers

Exquisite Creature, Belly Down
Middleman: dream after my grandmother’s death #1
Sliding Scale
Deva
Habitat
My Ex-Father Eats a Live Honeybee
Inherit
100 Helicopters
dry
Forest of Telephone Poles
Changing Hands
cloth mother/wire mother
Receiver: dream after my grandmother’s death #2
Grace
tantra
The Clearing
static dirge
Contrition
Easter Sunday
Steep


Notes
Acknowledgements

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