Contents -- Foreword by Edward Field -- Preface -- 1-800-THE-LOST -- The Rescue -- What the Neighbors Heard -- Amber Alert -- Mandatum -- Apology -- On the Proper Care of Orchids -- The Retrieval -- Museum -- Lullaby for Her Brother -- Kaleidoscope -- On Recognizing Saints -- Morning Offering -- The Golden Bough -- At the Grieving Parents Meeting -- Demeter's Side -- Snow Globe -- The Rape of Chryssipus -- I See You -- River of Forgetfulness -- Bingo Night for Missing and Exploited Children -- A Glass of Absinthe -- Catharsis -- The Boy's Lament -- Little Fits -- Mythology -- Mother's Day -- Requiem -- Song of Daphnis -- Loose Ends -- Sanriku -- Teaching the Tragedies -- Girl at Piano -- Oaths, Curses, Blessings -- Melville's Reader -- Joseph Dreams Two Dreams -- Leaving the Mainland -- The Ventriloquist -- Songs of the Immortals -- The Eviction -- The Arrangement -- Aubade -- The Lame God -- Against Elegies -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- The May Swenson Poetry Award.