Author' s Note xii.Anything Worth Saving 3Trace Elements 5Imago 7A Daughter Learns to Fish 9Texas Strong 10My Grandmother Hated Grackles 12What the Genetic Counselor Says 14After Tracing My Genealogy to Rebecca Nurse 16The Moon of a Moon is a Moonmoon 18How to Get a Hoya to Bloom 20Monstera deliciosa 22The Fall of Rome 24Bathsheba in Church 26Tree Stand 28ii.It Gets Easier 33When the Cottontail Doesn' t Return 35These Habits 36Mercy 38Bound 40Why We Had No Use for a Rooster, and What That Drove Us to Do 42Stray 44Feral Cat 45Cat Goddess 46Some Days, the Pain Medication Doesn' t Work 48Dear Disease 49An Abecedarian for Barrenness 50Ghazal after the Electrocardiogram 52The Doctor Says to Make My Body into an Unfriendly Place 54Grocery Delivery 5635 mm 58Driving through a Freezing Fog 60iii.Vigilance 65Land Management 67Killdeer 69Locoweed 71Paradise 73Chupacabra 75The Making of the Horse 77Mustang 79Red Mare 81Trespasses 87They Call This Weather a Land Hurricane 89We Say Everything Will Be Okay 91When Only Sage Is Left 93Trimmings 95Chore 97Cadillac Ranch 99The Moon (Again) 101Salvage List 104The End of Growing Season 107In Early Fall 109Acknowledgments 111.