Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Dedication 1 -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Canticle -- I -- The Poem in My Childhood -- Fireflies -- Blush -- To the Word "Girl" -- Mary -- Hunger -- Marrying Outside the Faith -- II -- Biopsy -- Blessing for My Left Breast -- Persimmon -- Good Friday -- Lent: Deformed Pussy Willow -- The Name of God -- To My Body -- After a Mastectomy -- Lying in Bed -- I Hope My Nurses Remember Playing Records -- All the Others -- Lamentation -- Letter to Myself, in Remission, from Myself, Terminal -- Black Friday -- Everything Is Perfect -- Ode on Porcelain -- Ash Wednesday -- This Afternoon -- The Burned Butterfly -- A Little Order and Beauty -- At Skyline Caverns -- Laying On of Hands -- Nothing -- III -- When My Father Told Me Stories -- Wish for a Poet -- Late Wake for a Lost Child -- Lessons and Carols -- Christmas Eve -- Fetal Heartbeat -- The Thin Place -- Jellyfish -- A Handful of Berakhot -- Sugar -- Rapture -- Public Displays of Affection -- French Toast -- Remembering "Dover Beach," Block Island -- The Ninety-Third Name of God -- Notes.