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.