Foreword: Midden, When Glory Comes xiii I Walk My Road at Dusk 1 The Way Home 3 Dear ghosts, I pick the list 5 The Story of Fire 6 Their Objects 7 Shipwreck at New Meadows 8 Bas-Relief: Jake Marks 9 Dear ghosts, in winter my camp on the hill becomes 10 Interview with the Dead 11 Dear ghosts, because you tell me to, I begin again 16 So Many Things 17 The Tray of Spades 18 Dear ghosts, my neighbor catches you with her camera 21 The Schoolteacher Answers the Call 22 Sestina Fragments: Our Teacher Prays for Bread 25 Dear ghosts, I wake wishing my body 27 No Man
s Land 28 Annie in the Boat 30 Dear ghosts, how can we stop the sunlight spinning the story 31 John Eason Stops Preaching 32 This Is Our Home Now 33 Sucker Fish 35 What William Marks Knows, Age 3 36 Dear ghosts, with a red pencil I draw a map. 37 Each Morning Drowns in Open Air 38 The Procedure 39 Upon Opening Another Folded Day 40 Feeble-Minded 41 Dear ghosts, because you are dead and restless 42 Lottie Marks Dreams Escape 43 Dear ghosts, there was a man who lived here 44 Lottie Marks on Silence 45 Agent Pease
s Defense 46 Midden 48 Dear ghosts, when I said all I ever wanted was land 49 Yellow Surprise 50 How to Build a Houseboat 51 Shed Night 52 Potter
s Field 53 Dear ghosts, you say all our bones are made of paper 54 Paddling the Storm 55 Descendant
s Riddle 56 Untold 57 Dear ghosts, this land harvests the body to rubble. 58 Erasure 59 Saudade 61 Final Invocation for Ghosts 62 Afterword 65 Notes 69 Acknowledgments 73
