Cover -- CONTENTS -- I: A THOUSAND WORDS -- Self-Portrait: Threads from an Art Forger's Diary -- Doe in a Mint Green Clearing -- Leaves or Paper or Wood -- Edge of the Fountainebleau Forest -- The Pink Undertones -- The Drapes Floating All Around Me -- Take It Back: An Ode to Shrimp Woman -- A Thousand Words -- Dead Skin Dust -- Even Venus had to Learn to Love her Face -- Ode to the Woman on the Bravo Espresso Coffee Can in Which I Store My Pens -- The Captives Remain Serene -- II: THE WORLD, GREEN AND DISARMING -- All the God-Sized Fruit -- By the Still Life Painter's Wife -- Aftermath of the Still Life -- Detail of Tulip -- Inventing Great Schools of Fish -- Still Life with Greasy Noodles: A Travelogue, a Work Poem -- Poses of Statuary -- Out of the Sumptuous Chaos -- Into the Kitchens of the Burning City -- The World, Green and Disarming -- III: THE ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI POEMS -- Fringes of Plot -- What a Woman Can Do -- A World Without Glass -- Cooked Water -- Perspective -- Shade Garden of Your Bones -- Emerald, Amethyst, Opal -- Notes to the Poems -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations.