Intro -- Contents -- I. ilk -- Kinglet -- Fledgling -- His Kite -- Paper Plane -- The Me -- Shiba Onko -- Sarge -- Phantom -- Just This Train -- Saturn -- The Roach -- Ornithology -- Nest -- Touching the Animal -- Aubade -- The Bumblebee -- Mind Over Matter -- Snails -- Cicadas -- Heirloom -- Pie Case -- Microscope -- Wind -- II. clay -- Floaters -- Going the Distance -- It So -- Then One Morning -- Love and Life -- Grocery Cart -- Riddle -- Cesium-137 -- Frogman -- What Began -- Seizure -- Fireflies -- At the War Memorial -- Crossword -- Oxblood -- Gravity -- The Will -- Who Knew -- The Widower -- Grief -- Pumice -- Instead -- When You Come to Lethe -- III. kiln -- Sonata -- The Surgeon and the Poet -- Scabsong -- Apology to My Left Hand -- Jesus and the Splinter -- Lincoln -- Leaving the Museum -- After Yoshitoshi -- Napoleon's Bath -- Saint-Rémy Asylum -- O -- Y -- Ask -- Burning the Book -- Ginkgo -- Vespers -- Wrestling the Angel -- The Spider -- Butterfly -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author.