Contents
A Perfect Catastrophe 1
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Disintegration Loop 1.1 5
Vernon Street 21
Summer 23
Realistic Flowers 25
I Am Glad of Your Arrival 26
It’s an Empire Out There 27
Elegy for Neil Armstrong 29
And This Too Comes Apart 39
Hatch 41
Such and Such a Time at Such and Such a Palace 42
Me and My Head as Pieces of Wood 43
Flowers Are Also Letters 44
Nature Poem 45
They Are Leaving You a Message 47
Drapes 48
Uncloudy 49
Not Much More Room in the Cemetery 50
As If No Light Could Warm You 51
How Long Is the Heliopause 53
Some Glamorous Country 61
In the Dumps 62
Pursuits 63
Aesthetics of Crying 64
Keep in Shape 65
Optioned 66
Annual 67
Ecumene 68
Dear Seth 69
Poem for Bill Cassidy 87
Notes and Acknowledgments 93
