Cover; Title Page; Note to the Reader; Dedication; Contents; from Northern Spy 1981; Inland; A Mysterious Heart; Northern Lights; This Was a Farm; Reno; Snow Light; The Iris, That Sexual Flower; Your Eightieth; The Dim Parade; Like a Caretaker; Nostalgia for the Future; Watercress and Ice; The Billowing Lights; His Shoulders in the Water; from The Odds 1986; Meteor Showers, August 1968; Cedar Needles; Planet of Smoke and Cloud; Evening, Herron's Farm; Japanese Weeping Cherry; The Hotel du Nord; Rhymes for Old Age; Paper White Narcissus; Words for Synthesizer; Abandoned House in Late Light
Let XElectrical Storm; The Colorless Center of Everything; Translations from the Rational; Partita for Solo Violin; from Perdido 1991; Why All Good Music Is Sad; A Minor Crush of Cells; The Givens; Dream of the Interior; Window in the Shape of a Diamond; The Shades of Grand Central; Useless Islands; The Condom Tree; Six Belons; Chanel No. 5; The Blade of Nostalgia; Revenge; Word Silence; O Miami; from The Ghost of Eden 1995; Animal Graves; The Pools; Little Snowscape; The Ruiner of Lives; The Immortal Pilots; Snow in Condoland; Bad Movie, Bad Audience; The Devil I Don't Know; The Whirlpool
Touch-me-notA Seduction; The City in the Lilac; White Conclusion; The Rule of the North Star; Aisle of Dogs; Ghost Birches; Silver Slur; City Animals; from The Snow Watcher 1998; Mistake; Private Airplane; Girl Riding Bareback; Glimpse; Solo; Animal Languages; Secrets; Hologram; Arsonist and Fireman; The Innocent One; Horse; Saint Animal; Decade; Erotic Energy; A Last Look Back; Makeshifts; Paint; Hunger for Something; My Taste for Trash; To the Reader:The Language of the Cloud; Today's Lapses; Stray; To the Reader: Polaroids; Architecture; To the Reader: If You Asked Me
To the Reader: Twilightfrom Dog Language 2005; Skeleton; The Paper River; Dangerous Playgrounds; A Lamb by Its Ma; Cocktail Music; Auld Lang Syne; Marijuana; Bonsai; Soul in Space; New England Slate Pane; Cities of Mind; Tech Help; Arcade; The Ceiling; Cinderblock; Verizon; My Listener; Dog Biscuits; Vestibule; A Negative of Snow; Monastery Nights; Work Libido; Thought Satellite; Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New Poems; Snow-globe of Vesuvius; The Long Bony Faces of the Mules; Tourist Traps; Tourist Traps; Math Trauma; Tomboyhood; Savin Rock; Walky-talky; My Lethe; Sideshows
The Dark RidesMask of a Maiden; Cold Water; Snakeskin; Forensic Interludes; War Porn; Negligent Worldicide; The Fifth Precept; Sayonara Marijuana Mon Amour; Playgrounds of Being; Clouds and Water; Tenderfoot; How Zen Ruins Poets; Good-bad Zazen; The Fork; Old-lady Cautious on the Stairs; From a Distance; Zazen and Opium; About the Author; Books by Chase Twichell; Copyright; Colophon; Special Thanks
