Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones -- La Llorona -- Canary in the Mine 1 -- Canary in the Mine 2 -- Canary in the Mine 3 -- Canary in the Mine 4 -- Wrong and Wrong -- Our Job was to Move their Bodies -- Clean Red and Black -- Angkor -- Ode to General Võ Nguyên Giáp -- David and Goliath -- Writing on the Body -- Intimately Defeated -- True Grit of Old 66 -- Only Swatch of Brown -- Every Equation Up for Grabs -- The Maze -- Mother Triptych -- Memory, It's Your Turn Now -- Daddy, Do You Remember Me? -- Beneath Our Feet -- Smuggled Our Side to Theirs -- With Only Dirt -- Downwind from Pecos -- At the Edges of the Pueblo -- All Maps Must Be Redrawn -- Canyon Ethnography -- These Amazing Opposable Thumbs -- I Suspect a Backup System -- Fetal -- When the Last Gulls Head for Shore -- Global Warming Danger #1 -- Evasive Poem -- Not Good News -- When I Grow Up -- Not Quite Blood -- The Human Privilege -- Misión San José -- Giving Nothing Back -- Lips Long Since Gone to Forest Mulch -- Our Customs -- Our Imperfect History -- Perfect Makeup and Convincing Fear -- At This Crossroads -- I and Am -- Identity Bursts Its Seams -- Not This Life -- My Question -- Colophon -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author.