Of This River.

Intro -- Contents -- First Memory of Water -- Drowning as Taught by Short-Haired Girl -- Small Histories -- Woman Who Will Be Short-Haired Girl's Mother Plants Potatoes after a Night Trying to Conceive -- Short-haired girl -- Corpuscular -- Ridge and Valley as Taught by Short-Haired Girl -- Skins -- Learning to Talk to Animals as Told by Short-Haired Girl -- Saint Francis -- Short-Haired Girl Visits Her Cousin Who Moved Back Home Last Week -- Woman Who Catches Kingfishers -- Short-Haired Girl Goes to Church -- Thursday nights -- How Blood Becomes the River -- Brown Trout Tells Short-Haired Girl about the End of October -- Short-Haired Girl's Brother Watches Her Gut a Deer -- Dream in Which I Sin and Weep Myself Awake -- Kissing the Woman Carried in Bear's Mouth -- Hunger -- The Language of Silt -- Coyote Tells Short-Haired Girl about Loving His Brother -- The Story of the Raven King as Told by Short-Haired Girl's Brother -- Murmuration on Bell Tip Road -- Lightnin' Hopkins Returns as a Bluetick Hound -- Short-Haired Girl's Grandmother Speaks of the Dead -- What Names the Moon Gives -- Short-Haired Girl's Aunt Tells Her about November Again -- In fields where junco -- What Was Left -- Short-Haired Girl Praises a Child on a Horse -- Mending -- Short-Haired Girl's Aunt Tells Her about the Woman Who Eats the River -- Feeding Hogs as Taught by Short-Haired Girl -- Every day is a god -- Oil as Taught by Short-Haired Girl -- Winter Solstice -- Short-Haired Girl's Dead Cousin Visits -- June Evening -- Short-Haired Girl's Father Catalogues Summer Afternoon -- First Love as Told by Short-Haired Girl -- Map of the Body -- Short-Haired Girl Dreams of Her Family -- Menstruation as Taught by Short-Haired Girl -- Lottery Tickets -- Short-Haired Girl Visits Her Brother -- August Market -- Snapping Turtle Tells Short-Haired Girl about Loneliness.

What It Means for the Bear to Eat Ash -- February New Moon -- Short-Haired Girl's Father Confesses Her Conception -- Short-Haired Girl Stops Going to Church.

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