Table of contents -- One - a ruckus of awkward stacking -- the language of flowers -- landscape architecture -- late june -- geranium -- notes towards a garden glossary -- i. axil -- ii. runner -- iii. thatch -- iv. stipling -- v. rhizome -- cash register view -- home again, summer -- parking lot pastoral -- from the ocean, inland -- Two - a sort of lip-read language -- still -- abstract -- morning flight -- katie, christmas, 1900 j.k.b -- poem -- or, 18 lines on desire -- fever -- the morning as continuation -- Three - scleroderma -- spring -- dash 8 -- another flight -- hospital recliner -- thick with congealed cream -- at the funeral home -- new gravestone in winter -- burial -- kicking away at it -- sea wall, york redoubt -- drifting -- a comforting archaeology, this -- becoming earth -- 13 ways of looking at fish, after -- october, once removed -- picture postcard seagull, Peggy's cove -- she drank tea -- Four - like ticker-tape -- road trip -- fingernails -- the park -- anthem -- house league photo -- when skates break -- dressing-room religion -- why football, Sundays -- snow -- trees in ice -- threshold -- winter airport mythology -- newly -- steaking halibut -- voyeur -- tectonics -- a move to liquid -- apostrophe: a mess of floor -- snow -- a fear of dying -- winter felt -- Five - other dissociative disorders -- morning, laundry -- a child's toy, in the grass -- i imagine middle age -- paint with my hands -- localization of memory -- a consequence of liquor -- what we sometimes mistake as love: the right hand of a pioneer radiologist, 1932 -- a death of neurons -- the hagiography of photographs -- an idea of morning -- Notes on the Poems.