Table of Contents
She's never trusted happiness 15
Different Mothers 16
I wore this dress today for you, mom, 18
Letter to My Son 20
Dubonnet 21
Game Over 22
Clive Christian No. 1 24
Goodbye to James Garner 26
No One Bleeds Forever 27
Birth 28
Pregnant 30
The things I do in my car 31
The Couple Next Door 34
Sardines 36
Everybody Loves Dinner 38
My Mother Has a Fitful Sleep 40
My Mother Wants Extra Crisp Bacon 42
Gail Explains about My Mother's Glasses 44
Bottled Water 46
Lunch with Gloria 48
The Salvation Army Won't Take the Futon 49
Board and Care Clock 50
I Lost My Mother at Bloomingdale's 51
The People in the Health Food Store 52
Slice of Moon 54
Dying is Not Black, 56
The Delivery Man 57
Solace 58
Little Glass Dishes 60
How was your weekend, 62
The Gene 64
Easter Sunday 66
Visiting Eleanor 67
Sleep Over 68
They Only Want Meatloaf 70
There will be things you do 71
Minor Tremors 74
Self-Portrait with Imaginary Brother 76
Mother's Day 77
As long as my mother keeps getting mail 78
Time of Arrival 79
Thirst 80
My Mother Bakes Sugar Cookies 82
Why We Dream 83
We Took Off in the Snow 84
Alternative Flute 86
Huge Rat in Laundry Room 88
Extraction 89
Progress 90
We are like no one else in the world, 92
Late September 94
Daughter Suspects Dead Mother of Stealing Her Shoes 96
Would you donate your brain to science, 97
Cranky in Paradise 98
While Washing the Dinner Dishes 100
Scrambling Eggs 102
Fontanelle 103
Boob fob 106
Thanking My Breasts 108
Damage 110
Gift Cabinet 112
Hands 114
Tell Me 116
After the Rain 118
What We Leave Behind 119
