Contents -- Foreword by Arthur Sze -- Siqinq: Sun January -- Ceprano Man -- Izrasugruk Tatqiq: February -- Imieauraq's Ceremony of the Dead -- Addled -- Paniqsiqsiivik: March -- Moon of the Returning Sun -- Riding Samna's Gyrfalcon -- Mask of Dance -- Agaviksiuvika Tatqiq: April -- The Fate of Inupiaq-like Kingfisher -- Drying Magma Near Illiamna -- Days of Next Yesterday -- Suvluravik Tatqiq: May -- Stereoscope -- Pearl Serpents in Trance -- Palmed Hands Foist Dice -- Ninilchik -- Bess and Raven -- Ibeivik: June Birth Time -- If Oil Is Drilled in Bristol Bay -- No Fishing on the Point -- Salt Cedar on Kokonee at Susitna River -- Demons in a Quonset Hut -- Date: Post Glacial -- Inyukuksaivik Tatqiq: July -- Little Brother and Serpent Samna -- Uqaqtaa God Brings Her/Me to the Next Mind -- When Frog Songs Change -- Cell Block on Chena River -- The Shaman Palpates Her/My Body with Voices -- Aqavirvik Tatqiq: August -- Under Erasure -- The Pact with Samna -- Tingivik Tatqiq: September Moon -- Oil is a People -- Warming -- Her/My Arctic: Corpse Whale -- The Weight of the Arch Distributes the Girth of the Other -- A Violin in Blue -- Nuliavik Tatqiq: October -- For the Spirits-Who-Have-Not-Yet-Rounded-the-Bend -- The Flying Snow Knife -- The Sun, Moon, and the Dead Raven -- Nippivik Tatqiq: November -- Whalebone Wolf Hunters Dance -- Tonrat the Watchmaker Bestows His Wishes on Her/Me -- Tulunigraq: Something Like a Raven -- She Sang to Me Once at a Place for Hunting Owls: Utkiavik -- In Wainwright's Musk Oil Spermary -- Her/My Seabird Sinnatkquq Dream -- Ukiuk: Winter Siqinrilaq Tatqiq: December -- Chain Link Fence at the End of Tin White Life -- A Ricochet Harpoon Thrown Through Time Space -- A Cigarette Among the Dead -- An Anatkuq's Marionette of Death -- Loose Inuit Glossary -- Acknowledgments.