Table of Contents
I. Demolition
The Long Engagement
A Prayer for Safe Travels
Wishes and Dinosaurs
The Zombie Sisyphus Dream
My Eco-Crimes
One Last Love Poem
Ghost Songs
Secret Maintenance
Mixtape Ghazal
Turf War
La Ranchera
Across the Overrun States
Poco a Poco
The Cemetery on the Outskirts
Leaving the Carnival
Living the Moth Apocalypse
Self-Portrait of Handyman Sanding Floors
Eating Habits
Leaving the First House
How to Dismantle a Mirror
II. Reanimation
Your New Haunted House
My Mother's Daily Phone Calls
Driving to Albuquerque
Teaching the Zombie How to Human Again
Death of an Appliance
Night Watch
Scraping the Popcorn Ceiling
Children Playing with a Cannonball
Breaking the Rules of the Zombie Flick, I
Handyman Checks for Alligators in the Sewer
You Are Not a Plumber
Passive Aggressive
Breaking the Rules of the Zombie Flick, II
The Monster behind the Bushes
Alone on the Oregon Trail
Inside an Hour
Breaking the Rules of the Zombie Flick, III
Homecoming
Fourth of July
Perfume
Handyman Spray-Painting Inside
Nuestra Curandera
Standing against the Trees
III. Inhabitation
My First Zombie
I Could Be So Lucky
With No End in Sight
Standing on Top of the Interchange
Thinking about Duchamp's Urinal
Our Hieroglyphics
Handyman Imagines the Battle of Pueblo
Like Teens
You and Me in the Zombie Flick
Watching the Paint Dry
The Great Flood
Jellyfish
Boy Scouts vs. Zombies
Explaining Seafood to My Future Grandkids after the Extinction
Rips
To the Kissing Lovers in the Vancouver Riots, 2011
The Stars Are Always Pretty on This Drive
Praise for a Finished Job
Ecuadorian Couplets
To Dream in Spanish
My Love for You
For the Tiled Floor
We Kept Meeting
Z Harmony
Acknowledgments
