Intro -- Contents -- Black swan -- The homeless women of Iaşi -- After tram 2 leaves the depot -- The house -- Maggot therapy -- Wandering womb borrows language from Aretaeus, 2nd century -- Bread -- Americana -- From the rented window -- The fortuneteller -- Transatlantic -- I should be able to tell when the end is near -- Mosquito -- * -- from The Book of Salt -- Blessing -- Milk ramble -- Pollutants -- Carne de los Muertos -- Elegy for my mother's employer -- Kitchen talk -- Sortilege, strawberry fields -- Syn- -- Empathy test -- * -- Assimilation: The Lamancha goat -- Goatscape and Culpable metaphors: On Henri Rousseau's La Bohémienne Endormie, or Sleeping Gypsy -- * -- La isla de las muñecas -- OB-GYN clinic, Iaşi, Romania, 2015 -- Brains -- Mess up for beauty -- John Cale's 75th birthday concert, NYC -- Creature -- On lava -- After Hadrian, in praise of desire -- Love poem with chute -- Stump -- Forget the blossoms -- Erotic -- Self as goat in tree -- Notes -- Acknowledgments
