Table of Contents
The Night Before a Red-Eye Flight 1
Stag Hunt Mosaic 2
I Smile Earwide 4
The Boundary Stone of the Agora 5
Thermal Shock, Dolní Vestonice 6
You Be the Skipper, I'll Be the Sea 7
Rodin's Muses Surround Him 8
On Wearing the Leggings of Earthly Delights 10
The Ship Shall Be Nailed, the Shield Bound 12
With the Temple of Jupiter Below Us 13
Large Leaf Verdure with Animals and Birds 15
The Bone Chapel 16
Trypophobia, or Third Mile, Appian Way 18
Battledore 20
As She Talks, Her Lips Breathe Spring Roses 21
The Charioteer 23
His Arms Primed 24
On Naming and the Origin of Pity 25
Soloist 27
Fledging 29
Born of Lycia, Light of the Sun 31
On Defeat in the Siegesallee 32
Forgotten Film Stars, Berlin ca. 1912 34
Avenue of the Saints 35
Leave Her and She Swells 36
The Unicorn Recognizes Itself in the Mirror 37
Cameo 39
The Blue of a Rock Greenling Fish 41
Drupe 42
A Skin for a Skin 44
Arrhythmia 45
Habits 47
Conclave 48
Beneath a Golden Altar 49
Corvus and Oscine 50
Discovery 51
Pan and the Shepherds 53
Underworld 54
Gnomic 55
The Holy Door, Opened and Closed 56
Whale Watching 57
The Mountaineer 58
Loup Garou 60
Born of a Wolf 61
Triptych with Doctrine of Signatures 62
Cuttlefish 65
Lullaby for Cleaving 66
Remedy 68
I'll Meet You at the Orangerie 70
The Living Skies Struck Us Dead 71
To Bear All Toil and Wake the Clear Nights Through 72
Boomwortels and Other Roots 76
Notes 79
Acknowledgements 81
