Contents
Title Page
Note to Reader
Pieces on the Ground
Salmon
The Museum of Silence
May Day
That Thing
A Rescue
Wound
I Saw a House, a Field
The No-Name Tapestries
In Dürer’s Engraving
The Professor of Antiquities
Vermeer’s Woman in Blue Reading a Letter on Loan in America
The Offering
Genuine Fakes
The Anti-Grief
Back Back
That Angel William Blake Kept Talking To
The Ache
The Underworld
Museum Footage, 1945
Sleep, It’s Just That
Susanna and the Elders
Nocturne
Women
The Undoing
No Names or Lost World or the Most
The Octopus
To Be in Conversation, He Says, With
Aubade in Spring
There Ought to Be a Law against Henry
All of Us All of Us
On Halos
What to Know on a Need-to-Know Basis
Incant Until Gone
Justice and Mercy
Hospital Linens
Speak to Me
Divers on Film
A Firmament
Light in Winter
The Carnivorous Plants
Once a Procession
The Rings of Saturn
Keats Is Coughing
About the Author
Books by Marianne Boruch
Acknowledgments
Copyright
Special thanks