Broken Fiction

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Table of Contents

• Cover 1
• Praise for Broken Fiction 2
• Half Title Page 4
• Title Page 6
• Copyright Page 7
• Dedication 8
• Contents 10
• Between the Worlds of the Well and the Unwell 14
• The Trip 16
• Ode to a Node 18
• Salvage 19
• The Truth 22
• Petechia 25
• A Work of Art 29
• Positively Gin 33
• Changing the Subject 36
• Soft Figs 39
• Her Tears 40
• Approaching and Forgetting 44
• To Have a Daughter 47
• She Made Me Read Sharon Olds and Look What Happened 49
• The New Pearl Necklace 51
• Alone 55
• Regret Powers Love, or, Joseph and Irma 58
• Imitation 62
• Stairs 64
• Three Corners 67
• Quietness Is a Poem 73
• Ida and Liz 75
• My Mother Died? 78
• Green Gold, Hard Work 81
• My Grandmother Only 84
• Fruit Tree They Might Have Planted Before They Were Naturalized 86
• Defend Me, or, Regret 87
• Saving Seats 90
• Big Laughing Guy Turns Thirty-One 92
• The New Baby and Emma Goldman 94
• Remembering, or, Love 98
• Another Letter to My Mother 99
• Highway 400 Tells Stories about Teens 103
• Too Much Beauty 106
• The Time Will Come: Part One 108
• Christmas Morning 2012 111
• Prodigious Peace in Human Metre 112
• Injured Sparrow 115
• The Time Will Come: Part Two 116
• I Heard the Lion Roar 117
• Broken Fiction: Part One 120
• Dreams 121
• Spring Bus Stop 123
• Of a Piece – The Conductor 126
• Of a Piece, Still The Tall Man 128
• When We Are Thirty-Two 130
• For Her Twenty-Sixth Birthday 131
• He Has a Birthday That We All Play 133
• The Voice in the Angle 135
• Skin Plus Two Makes 137
• For Dori 139
• Remembering, or, Disdain 141
• The Rabbit Hole 144
• To Perform 146
• You Have Read This Far from 1320 148
• Tears Are Hungarian? 149
• One: Turning and Pulling 152
• Two: And Then There Is Love 154
• Cottage Story, Autumn 156
• The Call about My Death 158
• Purple Moth 161
• So, What Is the Purpose of Our Lives, She Asked 163
• It Didn’t Start with Me? 166
• Cultivating Gullibility 174
• Bibliography 184
• Acknowledgements 188
• About the Author 190