Machine generated contents note: An Elegant Architecture. Stories Told in Inconstant Light -- Tonight the Moon's Made of Whale Song -- Riffs Thelonious Put Down -- A Country Song Where the Moon's Lost -- Gene Study Shows Whales are Close Relatives of Hippos -- An Occurrence of Grace at a Bartok Concert -- Months of Close Work with Ice -- Animals Posed Severe -- From Animals Housed in the Pleasure of Flesh -- Where Rivers Come Together -- In Your Baseball Dreams -- Animals Housed in the Pleasure of Flesh -- In the Amnesia of Passion -- Scars and Faith in Waking -- From Attendant Ghosts -- The Itinerate Circus of the Past -- A Confession of Arrows and Love -- Unidentified Woman with Horse -- Not Even Light Is Innocent Now -- Maddened by Insects and Strange Hymns -- Maybe Not Lost at All, But Forgiven -- From The Precarious Rhetoric of Angels -- Faced with a Mosque in a Field of Wheat -- The Music of What's Left -- The Blurred Hand Holds More -- Signs Garbled, Incoherent -- How I Walked with a Woman Across the Maumee -- Dancing in Miami, Oklahoma -- Hymns Not One of Us Would Risk -- The Options of Memory Are Not Infinite -- The Precarious Rhetoric of Angels -- From Open Between Us -- House on Poplar Street -- The Unspeakable -- The Worst We Can Do -- With Bread to Fill the Air -- Acts of Erasure and Acceptance -- Open Between Us -- From A Short Bestiary of Love and Madness -- Made of the Body -- Burning the World Clean -- The Ferocity of Dreams -- The Residue of Desire -- Figures That Could Be Divine -- The Awkwardness and Grace of Gravity -- Of Touch and Voice and Other Pleasures -- The Lime and Dust of Disguises -- Grace in the Violent World -- From Structures the Wind Sings Through: A Poem -- Coda: This Dusty Womb of Music and Grace -- From Monks Beginning to Waltz -- The Sorrow and the Grace of Vultures -- The Passion of Radishes -- Rumors in the Heart of the Pear -- The Blessing of Onions -- Something about Murder and Love -- Under the Sad Weight of the Moon -- Rumors Whispered Under Dark Robes -- Libretto for an Opera About Gold and Lust -- From Meditations Before the Windows Fail -- A Failed Translation of the World -- Something Whimsical with Light -- Ode in Someone Else's Voice -- The Sky Might as Well Be a Priest -- Out of Jukeboxes & Car Radios -- To Hell with the Deconstructionists -- A Billboard Plastered with Hands -- Release, Our Sentence -- In the Form of an Opera by Mozart -- From What Light Becomes: The Turner Variations -- The Beauty of It -- In All the Best Ways -- In Gaudy Costumes -- Things the Dead Have Forgotten -- While Magicians Sleep -- Darker Than Any Black -- Drunk with Light's Return -- Close Enough -- All Sienna -- What Could Be a Prayer -- Some Ghostly Architecture -- An Elegant Architecture.
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