CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- 1 -- The Tender Grasses of the Field -- The Question Concerning Technology -- Canonically Conjugate Variables -- Astronomy for Beginners -- 49 Views of Childhood -- Variations on Lamentation -- Where the Famous Wish They Had Lived -- All Saints -- Song of the North American Martyrs -- Action Figure -- How One Pictures the Angel of History -- The Greek for Touch Also Meant Kindle -- This World's Exuberant Surface -- Narcissus Old, Anyone Young -- Thou Hast Blessed the Work of His Hands -- 2 -- Inarticulate -- How Small a Virtue Was It? -- Work in Silence -- A Hint of Mercy in the Weeds -- Consolations of Comparison -- The Fall / The Unthinkable -- Versions of Errors -- Origami -- On the Origin of Language -- Pain Is the History of Consciousness -- After Virgil -- The Naming of Shadows and Colors -- Reading a Line by Leyb Goldin -- Thou Shalt Not Love by Ways So Dangerous -- Chemical Virtue.