Pt. I. The undertaker's daughter. I am not afraid to be memoir
Burial sites
The undertaker's daughter
Sunday afternoons at Claire Carlyle's
For my unnamed brother (1943-1943)
Dolls
Mistrust of the beloved
pt. II. A memory of the future. I see my father after his death
My dad & sardines
On a picture of the Buddhist monk Pema Chödrön
On the revolution of the Jersey cows
The new pet
The Telly cycle (For Telly the fish ; Special ears ; Another poem of a small grieving for my fish Telly ; On the reasons I loved Telly the fish ; Because I was good to Telly in his life ; An apology to Telly the revolutionary)
When the goddess makes love to me
Untitled
The night I stopped singing like Billie Holiday
When I touched her
The iris and chicken fat
Lighting the tulips
Gershwin
A little prayer to Our Lady
To a cruel lover
Cherry blossoms
How Craig Foster enabled me to write the poems I'm writing now & gave me this voice
pt. III. The undertaking. The exigencies of form
The undertaking.