Contents -- I -- Tropics -- At the Edge of Winter -- Animal Study -- Black Widow -- The Heart is the Target -- Delilah -- Preparation -- Snakeskin -- Southern Artifact -- American at Auschwitz -- Stork -- Suicides -- Dialogue: Poetics -- Song -- For S. -- II -- Farm Wife -- "The Wife Takes a Child" -- The Handmaiden -- Gathering -- Birthday Sestina -- Claiming Kin -- Sister -- The Hen -- The Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin -- III -- Damage -- House -- The Letter -- April, 1945 -- The Waning Moon -- Executioner -- The Victim -- The Burial -- The Marriage -- The Birth -- The Drowned Man -- Harvest -- The Quickening -- The Visit -- All Souls' Day.