BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- food for the road -- PAST LIVES -- audition -- gathering decor for the merry-go-round -- changeling -- fishing the sea -- 1 oysters -- 2 rock fishing -- nights without sleeping bag -- death, passionfruit & roses -- divorce al fresco -- bread & honey -- remember the bedrooms: -- remember the passages: -- remember the yards: -- remember the roofs: -- remember the tents: -- legend as tourist attraction -- changing the medication -- on leaving a sister's house -- narratives of a household rose -- 1 from the white rose's mouth -- 2 the red rose's dilemma -- 3 the black rose at the cross roads -- CIRCUS BEASTS -- iron -- Opal's cow -- wolf dam -- paddock bull -- catcher -- working the cats -- killing the galah -- laundry animal -- mutton bird new year's eve -- blood and kittens -- FIRE FRONTS -- legend -- 'the goddess head' -- Medusa's lilies -- improvisation no. 1 -- burning off with Joan of Arc -- contrary mary -- improvisation no. 2 -- the Firehair songs -- the hand-me-down-secrets of a red skirt -- improvisation no. 3 -- living in the palace of the queen of heaven -- INDIGENOUS ACTS -- ropes 2 -- taking you to the circus -- the genocides in marmalade -- eating tiger country -- choosing lettuce -- travels with boabs -- reconciliation -- Erzulie in the basil pot -- river salvages -- FEET ON THE GROUND -- a cappella -- this noise -- cure -- ancestries -- north coast mulberries -- game of balance -- off-cuts -- performing the belly -- road poem -- stories -- box office -- midnight on the tree of magnolia candles.