Includes index.

Two pictures of my sister -- What my father told me -- Ghosts -- The garden -- The tooth fairy -- Quarter to six -- Awake -- Girl in the doorway -- On the back porch -- Bird -- The laundromat -- Sunday -- Late october -- After twelve days of rain -- Aphasia -- What we carry -- For the sake of strangers -- Dust -- Tweleve -- Each sound -- Fast gas -- As it is -- The theif -- This close -- The lovers -- Kissing -- Death comes to me again, a girl -- How it will happen, when -- Fear -- Last words -- Trying to raise the dead -- The shipfitter's wife -- Abschied symphony -- Family stories -- Pearl -- Smoke -- The orgasms of organisms -- Life is beautiful -- Moon in the window -- Facts about the moon -- The crossing -- The raven of Denali -- The life of trees -- What's broken -- Afterlife -- Savages -- Vacation sex -- Democracy -- Face poem -- Superglue -- Cello -- Little Magnolia -- Starling -- Staff Sgt. Metz -- Bakersfield, 1969 -- Juneau spring -- Mine own Phil Levine -- Late-night TV -- Homicide detective: a film noir -- Mick Jagger (World Tour, 2008) -- Men -- Antilamentation -- Cher -- Dog moon -- Mother's day -- Dark charms -- Lost in costco -- Second changes -- Fall -- Emily said -- The secret of backs -- Only as the day is long: new poems -- Lapse -- Before surgery -- Death of the mother -- Under stars -- Changeable weather -- Only as the day is long -- Piano with children -- My mother's colander -- Ant farm -- Heart of thorns -- Ideas of heaven -- Crow -- Ode to gray -- Evening -- Error's refuge -- Augusta, Maine, 1951 -- Chair -- Urn -- Arizona -- Letter to my dead mother -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index.