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Contents

Title Page

Note to Reader

Dedication

I

Murano

Bubbles

Vessels

A Peacock in a Cage

At the Fishhouses

When It Is Over, It Will Be Over

Letter from the Pribilofs

II. Go West

You’re

Mae West: Advice

Marriage

Censored

Freedom

Go West

The New Woman

Mae West: On Aging

“Celebrity” Striptease at Southern X-Posure

Confessional

Self-Portrait as Mae West One-Liner

Never

Prayer

Envoi

III

W.C. Fields Takes a Walk

Philip Larkin’s Koan

Once

Saturdays at Reynolds Work Release

Olive Oatman in Texas

Assemblage of Ruined Plane Parts, Vietnam Military Museum, Hanoi

IV. Shooting the Skulls: A Wartime Devotional

Portrait of F19: Male, 42 Years Old

Portrait of D6: Male, 38 Years Old

B17: Male, 38 Years Old

F21: Male, 37 Years Old

Devotional

Devotional

Portrait of F11: Female, 39 Years Old

F20: Male, 29 Years Old

Portrait of D19: Male, 41 Years Old

Portrait of D17: Female, 37 Years Old

C18: Male, 36 Years Old

Devotional

Devotional

Portrait of E4: Male, 34 Years Old

Devotional

Devotional

C2: Male, 42 Years Old

Portrait of E20: Female, 32 Years Old

C11: Female, 54 Years Old

Portrait of B4: Female, 34 Years Old

Portrait of C8: Male, 32 Years Old

V

Baucis and Philemon

Rhetoric

Irises

Monticello Vase

Birthday Poem

Mortal Love

The History of Paisley

Notes

About the Author

Also by Paisley Rekdal

Acknowledgments

Copyright

Special thanks