Table of Contents
I
The condoms we’ll use on Mars 1
Saturn 2
Queen mattress 4
Always so much war in love 5
Spider(s), mate or not 6
Selling it to the fly 8
Ink pit 9
When it ends 10
Cellophane-wrapped 11
Terrarium 12
Death side of the screen 13
If at first you don’t succeed 14
Check engine 15
Michael’s Midtown Cafe, Mobile, AL 16
Leaving 17
II
An idea of birth 21
Your son’s birthday party 22
Not pictured 23
What’s going to happen to us? 24
At the Prado with my six-year-old 26
Thursday 27
Front row 28
Packed lunch 29
Swimming lessons 30
Tasks and lessons 32
Quail call 33
Wiffle ball 34
The little weatherman 36
III
The dog meditations 39
The monster 41
Jobber 42
Disposition of the corpse 43
Getting there is part of the fun 45
Torpor topiary 46
Living tombstone 47
After surgery 48
Good floors 49
Too forgotten for slogans 50
Coronary doppler 51
Old and eating fear 52
Earth-bound astronaut 54
Abode among ruins 56
Weed 57
Your childhood 58
En el cielo, fronteras no hay 59
World begins/ends 60
Acknowledgements 63
