Table of Contents

Part I............................................1
At Breakfast......................................2
Natural Mistakes..................................3
Hansel and Gretel: The Mother Speaks..............5
Afterbirth/death..................................7
Hating the Babies.................................9

Part II...........................................11
Passage...........................................12
Courtly Love......................................14
A Fine Romance....................................15
This Way to Hear a Lecture About God..............16
Kitchen Sestina...................................17
Melting...........................................19
A Few Moments.....................................20
Night Scene.......................................21

Part III..........................................23
Registering Bliss.................................24
Couplets..........................................25
While You Were Out................................27
Closing Time......................................28
In the Boathouse..................................29
Easy Pieces.......................................30
Ivy...............................................31
I Am Mailing You Another Country..................33

Part IV...........................................34
The Ghost in Love.................................35
Being Careful.....................................36
Only You..........................................38
How the Hours Succeed.............................41
1-800-DIVORCE.....................................42
After Morals......................................44
Beautiful Losses..................................45
Poisoned Hawks....................................46

Part V............................................47
A Talent for Sadness..............................48
Charles Atlas Shrugged............................49
Inherently Unsafe.................................51
On the Fence......................................52
Awareness of Love.................................54
Musée Rodin.......................................55
V(o)ices..........................................56
The Little Thief..................................58