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Contents

  Title Page

  Note to the Reader

1  Self-Portrait as Scallop

2  When I Am Six

3  On Listening to Your Teacher Take Attendance

4  The Origin of Feathers on My Windshield

5  Sea Church

6  Mr. Cass and the Crustaceans

7  Penguin Valentine

8  from The Rambutan Notebooks

9  Two Moths

10  In Praise of My Manicure

11  End-of-Summer Haibun

12  When Lucille Bogan Sings “Shave ’Em Dry”

13  The Two Times I Loved You the Most on a Farm

14  Aubade with Cutlery and Crickets

15  When You Select the Daughter Card

16  At the Pumpkin Festival My Lips Burn Bright

17  Self-Portrait as Niagara Falls in Winter

18  Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate One Second before Waking Up

19  The Falling: Four Who Have Intentionally Plunged Over Niagara Falls with the Hope of Surviving

20  Forsythe Avenue Haibun

21  Meals of Grief & Happiness

22  Invitation

23  Inside the Cloud Forest Dome

24  I Could Be a Whale Shark

25  Love in the Time of Swine Flu

26  Self-Portrait as C-Section Scar

27  The Cockroach Responds

28  Andromache Begs Hector to Reconsider

29  When I’m Away from You, I Feel like the Second-Place Winner in a Bee-Wearing Contest

30  In the Museum of Glass Flowers

31  Dangerous

32  Travel Mommy Ghazal

33  Flowers at the Taj Mahal

34  While Riding an Elephant, I Think of Unicorns

35  Self-Portrait as an Egg-Tempera Illuminated Manuscript from 1352

36  Letter to the Northern Lights

37  Perch Bones and Apple Aubade

38  This Sugar

39  Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth

40  Psyche & Cupid: A Reimagining

41  Venus Instructing Cupid to Torment Psyche

42  Psyche Considers Her Last Letter from Cupid

43  Upon Hearing the News You Buried Our Dog

44  The Body

45  The Pepper Kingdom

46  One-Star Reviews of the Taj Mahal

47  First Time on the Funicular

48  One-Star Reviews of the Great Wall of China

49  The Pepper King Returns

50  Starfish and Coffee

51  Naming the Heartbeats

52  Chess

53  My South

54  Bengal Tiger

  About the Author

  Also by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

  Acknowledgments

  Copyright

  Special thanks