Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- I -- Ars Poetica, or Keeper-of-the-Water -- Coat-of-Arms -- Harem -- Late Night Confessions -- Barely a Body Comes Knocking -- Aphonic -- Surrender -- Feral Fields -- Under House Arrest -- Photuris P. -- Bears and Marmots -- Notes on Photuris P. -- if an owl is colorblind -- The Relativity of Sorrow -- In the Arms of Morpheus -- Discalced -- II -- The Skin of an Otter -- I Draw Blood -- Animal Love -- Absolution -- The Last Shepherd Down -- Beaded Baby Moccasins -- Supine in the Sun in the Neighborhood of Naked -- Possession -- Wedded to Dirt -- Request to a Lover -- Bareback -- In the Geometry of Less -- Kyphosis -- Bent -- III -- Christina-the-Astonishing -- Lingual -- Down-by-the-River -- Getting Back on the Back of the Horse -- In the Yard of the Sanatorium -- She Had Some Water -- Alchemy -- Spinning -- Mechanical Bull -- Please, Come In -- Snow -- May 25 -- Closer to the Surface -- Bull's-eye -- No Identity Crisis Here -- Acknowledgments -- The Author.