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Chapters (21)
  1. Praise
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. CONTENTS
  5. IN A DEER STAND
  6. SUN DOGS
  7. HYGGE
  8. BY SYDVEST STATION
  9. BETWEEN OFFICES
  10. THE FAIRGROUND
  11. COMPACTION BIRDS
  12. PERSHING SQUARE
  13. HONEYSUCKLE
  14. ON NARROW PAVED PATHS
  15. INSIDE ST. PAUL’S
  16. THE FREEZER CHEST
  17. MANITOBA
  18. WILD SWIMS
  19. PUSHKIN PRESS
  20. ALSO BY DORTHE NORS
  21. COPYRIGHT

I looked for the Indian woman, whose feet I saw disappearing up to the changing room. I clung to the edge of the pool and watched the beef-colored figure clamber out. I watched how, with his back to me, he rubbed himself briefly with a towel. Then he flung it over his shoulder and sauntered past above my head. White sodden trunks, half-stiff prick, swimming goggles. I’ve lost her, I thought, and glanced across the pool at the same instant the hairy man in the first lane dove because the woman with the shaved genitals was passing by, doing the crawl. And I looked down: my white feet on the narrow ledge, beneath me the deeps, clinical and descaled. Emilie’s hand in mine. A step, the suction, and then off to other realms.125126

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