Chapters (67)
- Cover
- 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
- 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
- Special Thanks
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