Table of Contents:
  • The undertaker's daughter: I am not afraid to be memoir ; Burial sites ; The undertaker's daughter ; Sunday afternoons at Claire Carlyle's ; For my unnamed brother (1943-1943) ; Dolls ; Mistrust of the beloved
  • A memory of the future: I see my father after his death ; My dad & sardines ; On a picture of the Buddhist monk Pema Chödrön ; On the revolution of the Jersey cows ; The new pet ; The Telly cycle (For Telly the fish ; Special ears ; Another poem of a small grieving for my fish Telly ; On the reasons I loved Telly the fish ; Because I was good to Telly in his life ; An apology to Telly the revolutionary) ; When the goddess makes love to me ; Untitled ; The night I stopped singing like Billie Holiday ; When I touched her ; The iris and chicken fat ; Lighting the tulips ; Gershwin ; A little prayer to Our Lady ; To a cruel lover ; Cherry blossoms ; How Craig Foster enabled me to write the poems I'm writing now & gave me this voice
  • The undertaking: The exigencies of form ; The undertaking.