Table of Contents
Part I Glass House
Scapa Flow 3
The House That Jack Built 4
Land of Milk and Honey 5
Goldilocks Zone 6
London Bridge 8
Outside the Walled City 9
Bridges Unnecessary 10
The Last of Blue 11
Mother in the Window 12
Snake's Eyes 14
Random Parenting 15
Sleeping Late 16
Half-Written Note 17
Windowpane 18
Glass Houses 19
Jelly and Darkness 20
The Brothel Keeper's Mask 21
Oresund Bridge 22
Drawing Room, Powder Blue 23
The Glassmaker's Wife 24
Glass Lunatic 25
Part II Her Teeth Show
Comstockery 29
The Night of Fireworks 31
Undoing 33
Lou Andreas Salome 34
You Won't Be Lonely 35
Where She Got the Knife 36
Covered Bridge 38
Condoms in Philadelphia 41
Glass Eye 43
Frogs' Legs 45
The Second Death 46
Leaping Like Antelopes 47
Getting Laid 49
Four Great Discoveries 50
The Glass Orchestra Plays for Immortality 51
Fireworks Cooking Just Like Cornbread 52
What Kept Us Going 54
Christian Hookers 55
Before Golf, Glass 56
Armadillo 57
Life Outside the Glass 58
Part III Bridges and Fireworks
Vegas to Skywalk 61
Bridges to Islands 63
Drunk on a Trampoline 64
The Dead Child 66
Sex on the Rooftop 67
Dual Pleasure 68
Broken Eggshells 69
Fields 70
After You Married John Wayne 71
The Book of Life 72
The Lip of the Body 73
Winter Death 74
Gung Pow 76
Gender Differences According to the Bible 78
Alchemy and Eternal Life 79
Casanova and the Aphrodite of the Modern World 80
Acknowledgments 83
