CONTENTS ONE A Globe is Just an Asterisk The Secret of Soil 3 A Globe is lustan Asterisk and Every Home Should Have an Asterisk 4 Kansas Animalia 6 Fortune-Telling Parrot 7 Letter Found at the Tower of Silence 8 Four Amulets for a Frightened Farmer 9 Corpse Flower 10 Paper Person 11 A Natural History of the Color Red 12 The Feathered Cape of Kechi (a fable) 14 At Hundred Islands National Park, I Count Only One Island 16 Kottayam Morning I7 If You Find Yourself on a Houseboat I8 At the Center for Retired Great Apes 19 Pie Plate 21 The Soils I Have Eaten 22 TWO Sweet Tooth TWELVE / TWELVE / TWELVE 25 Inside a Diorama 27 Mosquitoes 29 ::{ concerning snake hips }:: 30 Reptilian's Lament 32 The Mascot of Beavercreek High Breaks Her Silence 33 How to Be a Poet 34 Suppose You Were a Moray Eel 35 Bibliomancy 36 Fruit Thievery: A Lament 37 Last Summer of Singledom 38 Thanksgiving 39 Sweet Tooth 40 Baked Goods 41 Suppose You Chopped Down a Mulberry Tree 43 FOOSH 44 Dear Amy Nehzooukammyatootill, 45 Are All the Break-Ups in Your Poems Real? 46 Dear Betty Brown, 47 The Ghost-Fish Postcards 48 THREE Lucky Penny Hedgehog 53 Notes for the Heartbeat at My Feet 54 Birth Geographic 55 Under the Pascal Moon 60 Toy Universe 61 The Light I Collect 62 Lobison Song 64 Come Home, Come Home 65 Memorial Day Derecho 66 Eclipse 67 Waiting for Him to Speak 68 The Sick Diet 70 Two Egg, Florida 71 Inside the Happiness Factory 72 The Latch 73 Rain: A Catalog 74 Lucky Penny 75 Acknowledgments 78.