Contents
Preface
When the Signs Are in the Head
Wet Dew
The Home Cemetery
Churched
I’d Melt
Stacking Firewood
Oatmeal Cookie Communion
Uncle Charlie Loves You
Jump Rope Jitters
Crying Mad
The Strikeout
Regenerate
Single-Wide Self-Care
The Banty Boy
Creosote Sunrise
Distress Call
Election Year
Charmed and Charming
Timber
Lawless
The Criminal
Heart and Hearth
Nighttime Noises
Picture Day
Small Talk
War amid the Cabbage
Celestial Midnight Snack
Big City Surprise
When the Signs Are in the Breast
The Call of the Creek Bank
Pulling Plants
Peach Blossoms
Breaking Beans
Kentucky Heat
Charlie and Lovel
Not Much of a Mommy
Babies Having Babies
Disconnect
The Holy Trinity
The Scanner
Lovel Gets the Last Word
How Not to Act Right
Double D Dilemma
Ode to the Bethany House
Babysitting
An Aria for Isonville
Daddy Issues
You Might Drown
Taters and Rainbows
Mongrels
Roadwork Ahead
Royalty
Scorpion Tattoo
Stubby
Honky-Tonk Dreams
Mountain Lion
Cat Person
Goodnight, Gramaw
Gooseberries
Mommy and Mamaw and Them
When the Signs Are in the Reins
Breathing Ghosts
In the Dark
Bitter Berries
Accidents
Housefire on 504
Bless Her Heart
Hard to Swallow
The Art of Falling Apart
The Rain
Going Shedding
Super Moon
Giveaway
Truck Stop Strangers
The Lilac Bush
Wood Paneling
Blooms and the Blood
Attempted Escape
Funeral Flowers
Powerball Power Play
From around Here
Picnicking with the Dead
