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Contents

  Title Page

  Note to Reader

I

1  the first time

2  a brief biography of the poet’s mother

3  maybe this will explain my taste in men

4  poem written with sawed-off typewriter

5  three strikes

6  the sandbox

7  leverage

8  letter from my heart to my brain

9  letter from my brain to my heart

10  ghost town

II

1  drought (California)

2  heretic

3  Dawson, N.M. 1905

4  outhouse

5  the second time

6  the ghost’s daughter speaks: white elephant

7  weight

8  word problem

9  kin

10  oath (blud litany)

11  * * *

III

1  one more time, with feeling

2  deeper than dirt

3  singe

4  sermon

5  una oración (bruja’s solioquy)

6  swell

7  fairy-tale pantoum for my seven-year-old self

8  salvage

9  for Carol, who is no one

10  glutton

IV

1  my eyes in the time of apparition

2  dead radio apostle

3  the last time

4  the other children have to forfeit their inheritence

  About the Author

  Also by Rachel McKibbens

  Acknowledgments

  Notes

  Copyright

  Special Thanks