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Lapwing, Lark, Linnet… Chinese Fish Burning The Tower of Pisa and the Mudflat Horses 37 38 39 40 from To the God of Rain (2003) A Futurist Looks at a Dog 45 Laws of Probability 46 Distiller’s Unstable Daughter Explains her Absence from the Class 47 The Deaf School 48 To The God of Rain 50 The Wasps’ Nest 52 Whisky Drinker Considers his Skirmish with Death 55 In Italy (by Match-Light) 56 from The Blood Choir (2006) For the Seven Hundred and Forty Ninth Species of Barbed Wire 59 Spaniels in a Field of Kale 60 The Blood Choir 61 Loy’s Return 65 The Ailing 66 The Language School 67 The Echoists 69 A Shithouse Reverie 70 Shoe Gazing 71 Why Dunwoody Smashed Every Pane of the Stained Glass Window 72 At Dusk, You Can Hear the Men Calling 73 Ground Bass 74 from Priest Skear (2010) Riding the Ghostly Velocipede The Interment Priest Skear Stigmata 83 84 85 95 viii Arcimboldo’s Bulldog
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The Living and the Drowned ‘…Sinking water, many many sinking water’ The Gap Between the Boards of the Pier from The Storm House (2011) Like Slant Rain Calling Ugolino The Water-Halt The Gorse Fires Versions of a Miserabilist The Law of Primogeniture Goose Flesh The Revenant Bucko in Love Deleted Scene (The Frog) The Brothers Grimm A Portrait of My Grandfather in Drag ‘…Lay thee down’ from The Storm House 96 97 98 101 102 103 104 105 106 109 111 112 114 115 116 117 118 from Madame Sasoo Goes Bathing (2011) The Flame Trees of Trous Aux Biches Darwin in Maritius Madame Sasoo Goes Bathing Arcimboldo’s Bulldog 125 126 127 128 from The World Before Snow (2015) Ommerike 131 Self-Portrait as Drag-Field and Dark 132 Self-Portrait as Shamdeo Talking to his Future Self 133 Self-Portrait as Oxymoronic Love 134 Self-Portrait with Hummingbird as Fingers and Tongue 135 Ommerike 136 Self-Portrait as Old House Filling Itself with Furniture 137 Self-Portrait with View of the Greater Chihuahuan Wilderness 138 Contents ix

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Lapwing, Lark, Linnet…

Chinese Fish

Burning

The Tower of Pisa and the Mudflat Horses

37

38

39

40

from To the God of Rain (2003)

A Futurist Looks at a Dog

45

Laws of Probability

46

Distiller’s Unstable Daughter Explains her Absence from the Class 47 The Deaf School 48 To The God of Rain 50 The Wasps’ Nest 52 Whisky Drinker Considers his Skirmish with Death 55 In Italy (by Match-Light) 56

from The Blood Choir (2006)

For the Seven Hundred and Forty Ninth Species of Barbed Wire 59 Spaniels in a Field of Kale 60 The Blood Choir 61 Loy’s Return 65 The Ailing 66 The Language School 67 The Echoists 69 A Shithouse Reverie 70 Shoe Gazing 71 Why Dunwoody Smashed Every Pane of the Stained Glass Window 72 At Dusk, You Can Hear the Men Calling 73 Ground Bass 74

from Priest Skear (2010)

Riding the Ghostly Velocipede

The Interment

Priest Skear

Stigmata

83

84

85

95

viii

Arcimboldo’s Bulldog

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