Foreword / Gregory Pardlo
I. If I die in Juarez ; 13 ways of knowing her ; Our first year ; My father's family fasts the slaughter to feast the arrival of his bride ; The kiss ; Late September, when the heat releases ; Meditations on living in the desert ; Admit impediments - love is not love ; Continental split ; At a party
II. Panic ; Gedankenexperiments ; A loaf of bread ; After dinner ; The eyes open to a cry ; In their dark habits ; Kastanyas ; How to care for a man, withdrawing ; In step ; Because "some women are ; Displaced women's blues ; You say you can't sleep ; Thai massage ; Bodies, and other natural disasters ; For want of water
III. Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. Autopsy: ; How we come to smoke: ; High, high, high: ; Autopsy, Juarez: ; Tale, two cities: ; High and low: ; Crack rock, a hard place: ; Autopsy, us: ; Drug war: ; How we love to score (buying glass pipes at the barrio store): ; IV. Sea change ; At the symphony: 7 things I wish I'd told you ; [Rules for behaving on an airplane] & simultaneous monologue on your separate grief ; Last photograph of my mother laughing ; When in solitude, the surprise of morning ; Leaving the university gym ; Tuesday night in Montparnasse ; Moment in storm ; Marking. connecting: between going and stopping
; Old beds and Hollywood ; School terrorist exercise, 2005
V. What is broken ; Before dawn ; We're really not okay ; Golden shovel: at the lake's shore, I sit with his sister, resting ; Grave, ma non troppo tratto ; Safely watching a solar eclipse with Kuya ; Orison ; While my lover rests ; Touched by dusk, we know better ourselves
Lines I've stolen, and other notes.
