Contents
If We Have to Go
Buck Day
Hunting with Dogs
Music for Film before the Destruction of a Drone
Taxidermy: Cathartes aura
Rooster
What I Know about the Last Lynching in Jeff Davis County
Bad Seed
As the Mountain Grows Dark
Before the Miscarriage
Churching the Cow
Ursus in the Underworld
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Mother
What Her Father Taught Her
Coffin Honey
Dowser
Field Sermon
Lambing
Tattoos Cataract Her Back
Bog Parable
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Extinction
Possum
Up on Blue Knob
Foot Washing
Blind Horse
The Book of Miracles
Foxfire
Snapper
Relics
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Bear-Eater
Bodies in May
A Map
What the Market Will Bear
Pawpaw Elegy
Ursus Considers the First Gospel of Snake
The Cedars in the Pasture
Ursus Grows Wings
Learning to Tie a Fly
Lost Blue
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This Tired Flesh
Snow’s Memory
Learning to Walk Upright
Until Darkness Comes
Of This World
Watershed
Winter Solstice
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
Museum: Ursus americanus
How to Measure Sea Level Rise
When the Stones Are Undone
In the Garden
To Wake from Long Sleep in Darkness
What We Died For
Sitting Shiva
Acknowledgments