I. Low Country
The Magic Blanket of Laura Vicuña
Day of the Dead
Fall River at Midnight
Driving Through Salina
Burns, Kansas
Cherryvale
Baptism
Ice Breaking
Leadville
Grandfather
Alpenglow
The Visitor
The Visitation
Fountain Street
Infidelity
Dangerous Men
Kettenbiel
Big Hill
Chicken Hill
Rapture
Summer Camp
Hollows

II. High Ground
Graveyard Shift
The Missouri Basin
The Embrace
Highway 84
I Will Arrive in Seattle
Fireweed
Grassy Bald
Stone Prairie
Cut Shop
Christmas
The Vow
Offering
Dead Man’s Slide

III. Protocols
Honeymoon
The Arrangement
The Romantic
Monday Morning
Possibilities
For the Love of Three Cherries
A Walk at Kobe Terrace
September Villanelle
The Ascetic
The Empty House
Far From the Edges of a Conceit
Surrender

IV. Oracles
The Surface Holds
Lake Eola
The Song of Heraclitus
Leu Gardens
Femme Inspiratrice
The Key
Mona’s Dream
The Guide
Answer Key
Via Sacra
St. Catherine’s Head
Retrogradia Cruciata
Lupa Noctus
Hymnal
In Mylapore
Keisaku
Strangers in the Pyrenees
At Berjaya
Obscene Enough to Hold
The Wind Phone
The Rule
The Sum

V. Systems
Chaos Theory
Orders
Severance
The Cabal
The Documentarian
Who Watches the Watchers?
Babel
The Graveyard of Empires
America, forgive this…
The Acupuncturist
Eight Seconds in Nowata
A Primate’s Progress
Requiem for Pluto
Requiem Aeternam
De Facto Stranger

VI. Mythos
Figurina Spiritinata
The First Coming
Cleobis and Biton
Filum Sicarii
After Carpeaux
Persephone in Autumn
She Will Arrive
In the Shadow of Bacchus
Cat House
The Wolf
The Performance Artist
The Last Picture Show

VII. Colloquies
The Rose
The Frolic Room
Do Not Go Quiet
Dionysus Spikes the Ball
The Gods Check Out
The Idea of Disorder at Key West
The Ballad of Hyacinthus and Marsyas
The Courtesy of Ruin
A Taste of Cedar
Shiduri’s By the Sea
Delirium Tremens
Le Rossignol
Taken, With a Twist
The Remedy
A Dash of Old Dominion
An American Primer
The Sparrow
Annus Horribilus
In Aeternum Exspecta
Eulogy for a Moose
Kurt Waldheim’s Lost Preamble

VIII. Diversions
L’affaire de M. Wickham
Territory
Manners
Twelfth Night Masquerade
The Demon Life
A Snake’s Progress
The Snake Eating Its Own Tale
Penelope in Flux
“Your Ego Keeps You Awake”
Forgive My Baroque Sensibility
Poetry will Suffice

IX. Precedents

The Forum
The Seal
The Tribunal
The Threshold