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