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CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright

  Acknowledgments

  Dedication

  Note to the Reader

  SOOT

I. Terminal

1  WILD PEAR TREE

2  DO YOU SPEAK PERSIAN?

3  YEKI BOOD YEKI NABOOD

4  PORTRAIT OF THE ALCOHOLIC WITH HOME INVADER AND HOUSEFLY

5  RECOVERY

6  DRINKAWARE SELF-REPORT

7  CALLING A WOLF A WOLF (INPATIENT)

8  STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE BEFORE

9  PORTRAIT OF THE ALCOHOLIC WITH WITHDRAWAL

10  SOME BOYS AREN’T BORN THEY BUBBLE

11  HERITAGE

12  MILK

13  PORTRAIT OF THE ALCOHOLIC WITH DOUBT AND KINGFISHER

14  DESUNT NONNULLA

15  LEARNING TO PRAY

16  PORTRAIT OF THE ALCOHOLIC THREE WEEKS SOBER

17  SUPPLICATION WITH RABBIT SKULL AND BOUQUET

18  EXCITING THE CANVAS

19  A BOY STEPS INTO THE WATER

20  WAKE ME UP WHEN IT’S MY BIRTHDAY

II. Hunger

1  WHAT SEEMS LIKE JOY

2  BEST SHADOWS

3  PORTRAIT OF THE ALCOHOLIC WITH MOTHS AND RIVER

4  RIMROCK

5  PRAYER

6  BESIDES, LITTLE GOAT, YOU CAN’T JUST GO ASKING FOR MERCY

7  THIRSTINESS IS NOT EQUAL DIVISION

8  LONG PIG

9  BEING IN THIS WORLD MAKES ME FEEL LIKE A TIME TRAVELER

10  AGAINST DYING

11  PORTRAIT OF THE ALCOHOLIC WITH RELAPSE FANTASY

12  ORCHIDS ARE SPROUTING FROM THE FLOORBOARDS

13  THE NEW WORLD

14  AGAINST HELL

15  PALMYRA

16  UNBURNABLE THE COLD IS FLOODING OUR LIVES

17  PORTRAIT OF THE ALCOHOLIC FROZEN IN BLOCK OF ICE

18  NEITHER NOW NOR NEVER

19  EVERYTHING THAT MOVES IS ALIVE AND A THREAT—A REMINDER

20  WHAT USE IS KNOWING ANYTHING IF NO ONE IS AROUND

21  NO IS A COMPLETE SENTENCE

III. Irons

1  PORTRAIT OF THE ALCOHOLIC FLOATING IN SPACE WITH SEVERED UMBILICUS

2  AN APOLOGY

3  THE STRAW IS TOO LONG, THE AXE IS TOO DULL

4  MY KINGDOM FOR A MURMUR OF FANFARE

5  EVERY DRUNK WANTS TO DIE SOBER IT’S HOW WE BEAT THE GAME

6  TASSIOPEIA

7  PORTRAIT OF THE ALCOHOLIC WITH CRAVING

8  FUGU

9  RIVER OF MILK

10  GOD

11  DESPITE THEIR SIZE CHILDREN ARE EASY TO REMEMBER THEY WATCH YOU

12  WAYS TO HARM A THING

13  PERSONAL INVENTORY: FEARLESS (TEMPORIS FILA)

14  SO OFTEN THE BODY BECOMES A DISTRACTION

15  I WON’T LIE THIS PLAGUE OF GRATITUDE

16  PORTRAIT OF THE ALCOHOLIC STRANDED ALONE ON A DESERT ISLAND

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