CONTENTS

I
Every Day the World 3
Rupture: 1969 | 2021 | 1984 | 1996 | 5
The Arrival 8
Legacy 9
Old Dogs (Remember) 10
Sick Days: Sonnet Corona 11

II
Privacy Policy 23
Big History 24
Omens 25
The Reason 26
the algorithm moves toward an average 27
The trees are senescing, not dying. You’re dying. 28
Sestina 29
After 31
Refractory Period 33
Matter 34
Heart 35
Ordinary Trouble 36
Relational, or Instructions for Going On 38
Sometimes you have to be still and suffer, 41
Convergence 42

III
Insomnia 47
?? (The Moon Lady) 48
Turbulence 49
Intimacy 50
Patina 51
Love Poem for Brood X 52

Final Frontier 53
On April 29th, I try to be in the world 54
Love Poem for My Friends on a Road Trip to the End of the
World and Also the Beginning 55
St. Augustine 56
Mantis Marriage: A Fable 57
?? (The Butterfly Lovers) 58
Glossolalia 59
The Thing About Paradise 60

Appendix 61
A Guide to Seed Propagation in Hawai‘i 62
Slipstream 63