Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Mark Doty -- Acknowledgments -- I. -- I Promised Her My Hands Wouldn't Get Any Larger -- Split It Open Just to Count the Pieces -- Make Believe -- Queer Facts about Vegetables -- Outing, Iowa -- The Doctor Told Me the Shots Would Make Me Spin Silk -- Prelude -- The Manliest Mattress -- Call Her Vincent -- The No Shame Theatre -- Blue Boy -- Patrón -- II. -- Wagon Jack -- No Billboards in Vermont -- Precipice -- Larynx -- Sunflower -- Cooperative -- Kindness Not for Anything -- Love and the Bodega -- At the Chalkboard -- Thanks for Everything, Leland Cooper -- The Woodlot -- Extremophilia -- Provincetown -- III. -- The Spectral Wilderness -- Caper in Which We Masquerade as Braver Than We Feel -- The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart -- Second Winter -- Inventory -- In the Barber Shop -- I Think I Can Finally Hear John Muir -- This Wolf Is Going to Swim Someday -- The Index of Everything Round -- Ghost Dog -- Take Care -- Notes.