Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- ONE -- Why Bioluminescent Shrimp Remind Me of Laura -- Vulgar Remedies: Tooth and Salt -- Leaving Texas -- Vulgar Remedies (2): If You Hold a Dying Creature during Childhood -- Diagnosis: Birds in the Blood -- Article for the End Times: Gas-Mask Bra -- Confessions of a Firestarter -- TWO -- Warning -- Dermatographia -- Elegy Where I Initially Refuse to Eat Sand -- Wedding Night: We Share an Heirloom Tomato on Our Hotel Balcony Overlooking the Ocean in Which Natalie Wood Drowned -- Fable with Prison Nurse and an Early Morning Embrace -- Wool Blanket Covered in Nipples -- The Devil's Apron -- Alarm -- Black Porcelain French Telephone -- THREE -- One Week before the Vasectomy, We Stay in the Panama Hotel Bed & Breakfast in a Room Called Cole's Dollhouse -- Tooth Fairy Pillow -- And Behold the Locks of the Three Dimensions Are Sprung -- The Spirit of the Hour Visits Big Pappa's Barbecue Joint -- Nightmare before the Foreclosure -- Base Notes in Perfume Are Almost Always of Animal Origin -- Mercy -- Moose Head Mounted on the Wall of Big Pappa's Barbeque Joint -- Hide and Seek with Time Machine -- Danse Macabre, Mississippi: My Great-Grandmother Fires a BB Gun -- FOUR -- When I Reached into the Stomach of a Fistulated Dairy Cow: Sixth Grade Field Trip to Sonny's Dairy Barn -- Honey Dusk Do Sprawl -- The History in Coffee -- Sonnets to Ambien -- There's Another Forest Growing in the Water -- Alarm (2) -- Sonnets to the Egyptian Chamomile Farmers -- Saint Bruise -- As I Rewind -- Acknowledgments.