ContentsMargaret' s Hands, by Barbara Byers frontisAuthor' s Note xiiMade Rich by Art and Revolution xiiiIntroduction: The poem happens on its own terms xv by Katherine M. Hedeen and Ví ctor Rodrí guez Nú ñ ezFrom Against AtrocitySan Antonio, Texas: Wings Press 2019Counting Backward 2Crisscrossing this Generous Nest 4The Rains Themselves Made No Excuse 6Every Outdated Map 7Every Fear Receives a Million Hits 9The World is Flat 10Memory Rounds the Corner 12The Verb to break 13She Knows 152020 18Memory as a Physics Problem 22From Starfish on a Beach: The Pandemic PoemsSan Antonio, Texas: Wings Press 2020Statistics 26Beneath the Waves 28State of Exception 29Spiral 31Eighty Times More 33From Out of Violence into PoetrySan Antonio, Texas: Wings Press 2020One Tectonic Plate Slipping Beneath Another 36Out of Violence into Poetry 38Voice 40Lifetime Warranty 41Tongue Seeking Solace 43Molecules Sometimes Wonder 45Each Toy Argues its Future 47The Hole October Leaves 49With Memory Clinging to My Back 51Those Memories We' ve Forgotten 53Memory and Echo Play Together in a Modern-Day Garden of Eden 55From Stormclouds Like Unkept PromisesAbiquiu, New Mexico: Casa Urraca Press 2022About the Light 58Still Life, Winter 2021 60Every Death an Act of Survival 61My Mother' s Breasts 64Your Story, Your Escape 66Medusa 67Talk is Cheap 68Prometheus Punished 69Drops of Blood on White Snow 71Gretel and Hansel 73Backward Feet 75Malintzí n 77Waiting Our Turn 79Writing the Future 81From Vertigo of RiskAbiquiu, New Mexico: Casa Urraca Press 2023Dearest Ruth 84Dearest Mark 86Dearest Laurette 88Dearest Felipe 91Dearest Roque 93Dearest Maru 95Dearest Paul 98Dearest Ceferino 100Dearest Kathy 102Nepantla 104When I Lived 108Geode 110Back to Front or Inside Out 111My Father' s Eyes 113Becoming Ourselves 114All Those Years Ago 116My Theory of Nothing 118The Sum of One and One 120Understanding Metaphor 122When I Die 123Never the Compliment it Pretends 125Desert 127The Acequias 129Water' s Desire 130Ode to Typography 131Footprints 137The Hole in Your Calendar 139Dubious Gifts 142Not Even the Cheetah 144From HomeAbiquiu, New Mexico: Casa Urraca Press 2023This Home on My Back 148Home as Oxymoron 151The Shame no Wearable Can Erase 152The Great Houses, Chaco 155Nothing but Need at their Side 160A Different Language 162Their Houses 165If Forced to Go 169Adobe Dreams 171What I Harvest 173Homeless 175What We Can Pretend We Do Not See 177Faked Orgasms and Beloved Books 179Non-Negotiable 181This Table 182From Your Answer is Your MapGreen River, Vermont: Bob & Susan Arnold' s Longhouse, 2023Our Progress is Plastic and Cement 186The Cranes are Coming 189Your Answer is Your Map 191Change 193Uncollected PoemsLife as It Was 198Moving from Escher to Silence 200Failed Translation? 203Waving Goodbye to the Shadow of Myself 207Silence 210Room 5007 212About the Author 223About the Authors of the Introduction 225.