CONTENTS One Bite I Slice Fishbone 1 Stealing Song 4 Ooty Lake 5 Wrap 6 Table Manners 7 Peacocks 8 Aanabhrandhanmar Means 'Mad About Elephants* 9 Gulabjamoon Jar 10 The Rolling Saint 11 Swear Words 12 Hell Pig 13 The Purchase 14 Telling the Bees 15 Falling Thirds 17 II Juice Suddenly as Anything 21 In Praise of Colophons 22 Winter Games 23 The Woman Who Turned Down a Date with a Cherry Farmer 24 Fruit Cocktail Tree 25 In the Potatoes 26 Contusions 27 Lewis and Clark Disagree 28 Cheese Curds, the First Time Why I Am Not Afraid of King Cobras 30 1 Come Back to Green 31 The Alligator 32 Crow Joy 33 The Woman Who Hates Frogs 34 Nest Shirt 35 213.466,917-1 36 Canticle with Sea Worm 37 Meditation on Flannel 38 Making Gyotaku 39 The Bonsai Master's Daughter Breaks Her Silence 40 Arachne 41 Little Houses 42 Ill Flesh Speak 47 Cocoa Beach, Off-Season 48 Lagoon 49 Coco Cay 51 Joseph Sees Me Painting My Thumbs Blue 52 Good Blood 53 The Original William 54 Mr. Mustard's Dance Club: Ladies' Night 55 Blue Topaz 56 Small Murders 57 Betelgeuse 58 Eating Dust 59 Mouth Stories 60 Motorcycle 62 Late 63 What I Learned from The Incredible Hulk 64 Red Ghazal 65 Origin of the Milky Way 66 Fabric 67 Spices 68 Are You Making Dumb Cake? 70 Under Water, Behind Glass 71 My Name 73 Acknowledgments 74.