Poetry is the great permission.
-Alice Friman
Barbeques are supposed to be messy.
-Little Pete
- Contents
- Frontmatter
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Part 1
- Invocation
- Apologia of Having No Clear Answers
- Note to Self: Age 31 to 75
- New Galactic Model
- Gramma McCarthy's Coffee Cake
- Catalog of Interstices (3)
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- Viscosity
- Imagine a City
- Today You Will Die or You Won't
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- Daydream
- Muscle Memory
- Apologia of a God Who Abandoned Its Creation
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- Vices & Virtues of Isolationism
- One of Those Kind
- 문아
- Dust
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Part 2
- Invocation
- Starting from Buffalo
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- Apologia for Contributing to the Big Data Police State
- Decriminalize Everything
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- All the Lives I Could Not Live: Prologue
- Synesthesia
- A Confirmation
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- The Uncertainty Principle of Spaghettification
- Dearth & Distance
- From the Shadow (5)
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- Pantoum that Keeps Expanding
- Christmas Party Bean Dip
- Catalog of Interstices (2)
- Rushford Lake
- Notes to Self: Age 27 to 17 & 37
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Part 3
- Invocation
- Note to Self: Age 35 to 10
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- Forging the Boy
- McCarthy-Pinelli meatballs, with red sauce
- Duende (1)
- The Beauty of the Metaphor is that it Breaks Down
- Werner Heisenberg Admits He Never Loved
- Black is the Color—
- What's Missing
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- Gramma Teresi's Lasagna, prepared by Yia-Yia
- Further Suggestions for Scrutinizing the Plan
- Little Wing
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- Let's Grow Young Together
- Apologia of Using a Making the Sausage Metaphor
- I Feel the Earth Move
- Yia-Yia & Papou's Lamb
- One Day I'll Fly Away
- Pulp
- The Men of Chernobyl
- Dead Letters (to Brandon)
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Part 4
- Invocation
- Note to Self: Present Day
- I let them drift away
- Ars Poetica
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- Duende (3)
- Mom's Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
- It Only Takes Two to Make a Murder of Crows
- When Awake
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- When Your Life Was Low
- Found Slush Cake
- The water may rise sharply
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- What He Didn't Know Before
- The Author at 11 Wanted to be Reincarnated as a Dog
- Mom's Lemon Cheesecake
- In the ocean / The masses
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- Doppler Effect
- Blood Clot: Coda
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Part 5
- Invocation
- Refilling the Well
- Note to Baby Bear
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- Catalog of Interstices (4)
- Aubade: Savage Gulf State Park, Sawmill Campground, Site #5
- Aubade: Argentina
- From the Shadow (3)
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- Apologia for Never Saying What I Mean
- Still Life, Still Life
- Sarah's Lemon Donut Painkiller
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- Catalog of Interstices (1)
- Coffee Tomorrow
- Apologia of Writing Basically the Same Poem Again & Again
- Part 6
- Backmatter
Invocation
-Alice Friman
-Little Pete