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CONTENTS

Family Ghosts 1

I

Fox Hunting 5

Family History 7

Family Ghosts History 8

[grocery list, July 26, 2015] 9

Shebutnoy 12

Distance of Articulation 14

[Grandfather, fig. 1] 17

[Boy, bear, bird?] 18

[(fish)] 19

[Observe the Indian as subject] 21

[(never so much fish)] 22

[The earth was hollow around my feet.] 23

Elocution Lessons 24

[( )] 28

[Grandfather, fig. 2] 29

[fig. 3] 30

[fig.] 31

[(shark)] 32

[Not even bone.] 33

Lessons in Articulation 34

[Grandfather, fig. 5] 35

[Line. November. post-fall month.] 36

Dream with Shark 39

Survey of Resource Articulation 40

[It was winter] 42

II

[Only the beginning is true] 45

[… the bodies were too soft.] 46

Early She Works with Bodies 47

[(conditionally)] 49

[Pyrrha did not turn back] 50

She Gets Her Power from the Water 51

[every able body] 53

[In a box] 54

Ways to Sustain 55

[some burning persists] 56

[I turned fish] 58

Dream with Shark 59

[In a pile of available bodies] 60

[The dream is only trees] 61

[she fell down dead] 62

Let’s begin again 63

[fig. with ghosts] 65

[(That’s not how) the one from the water survived.] 66

Qawanguq with Fox 67

[No one expected a flood] 68

[… the smell of fish baking] 69

[The water rose.] 70

Qawanguq with House 71

III

History Lesson 75

Collection Object 77

Before There Was a Train 91

[She coughed and the women came out] 92

Family History 94

Family story 96

m y story 98

or 100

[not a fish] 102

[I was only a girl] 103

As Far as Records Go 104

Articulation of Distance; Or, The Hero Is Daily Called to Mind 107

In Communion with the Non-Breathing 108

[shallow bodies] 109

Family Ghosts 110

Ways to Sustain 113

Re-articulation 115

Manipulating Manifesting (Re)Generating Landscapes 116

[Only the beginning is true] 119

ADDENDUM

How to Make a Memorial 123

Ways to Skin a Fish: A Genealogical Survey 129

Notes 133

Acknowledgments 137