Table of Contents

1
Five Feelings for Orpheus     3
Orpheus Plays the Bronx     6
Persephone's Celestial Sphere     7
How People Disappear     9
For My Mother in Lieu of Mourning     11
Suture     12
Probably Eros     14
Remainder's Edge     15
Even This     17
2
Refrain     21
Pear Tree, Bartlett, Quotations     23
At Weep     25
Things Waiting to Be Dangerous     27
Boy, Allegorically Deployed     29
Brightness Falis     31
Mappa Mundi     33
Cloud Chamber     34
Waterfront     37
You Also, Nightingale     39
3
Topograph     43
Some Kind of Osiris     44
Naturalism     46
Kinds of Camouflage     48
Respite     50
Itinerary     51
4
Homeric Interim     55
Turandot     57
Narcissus to Echo     60
Snowdrops and Summer Snowflakes, Drooping     62
Eve's Awakening     63
The Tendency of Dropped Objects to Fall     65
Objects in Mirror Are Closerthan They Appear     67
Self-Portrait in the New World Order     69
Dust     71
My Desert     73
While the Temptations Are Singing "I Wish It Would Rain"     76
5
Come This Far     81
Thieves Like Us     83
These Are the Things     85
A Handful of Sand     86
The Navigators     88
With the Wind Blowing Through It     92
Light Years     94
Angles of Vision     96
Somewhere Outside of Eden     98
Hesitation Theory     99
One of the Lesser Epics     100
You, Therefore     101
Acknowledgments     103