Contents
First Memory of Water
Drowning as Taught by Short-Haired Girl
Small Histories
Woman Who Will Be Short-Haired Girl’s Mother Plants Potatoes after a Night Trying to Conceive
Short-haired girl
Corpuscular
Ridge and Valley as Taught by Short-Haired Girl
Skins
Learning to Talk to Animals as Told by Short-Haired Girl
Saint Francis
Short-Haired Girl Visits Her Cousin Who Moved Back Home Last Week
Woman Who Catches Kingfishers
Short-Haired Girl Goes to Church
Thursday nights
How Blood Becomes the River
Brown Trout Tells Short-Haired Girl about the End of October
Short-Haired Girl’s Brother Watches Her Gut a Deer
Dream in Which I Sin and Weep Myself Awake
Kissing the Woman Carried in Bear’s Mouth
Hunger
The Language of Silt
Coyote Tells Short-Haired Girl about Loving His Brother
The Story of the Raven King as Told by Short-Haired Girl’s Brother
Murmuration on Bell Tip Road
Lightnin’ Hopkins Returns as a Bluetick Hound
Short-Haired Girl’s Grandmother Speaks of the Dead
What Names the Moon Gives
Short-Haired Girl’s Aunt Tells Her about November Again
In fields where junco
What Was Left
Short-Haired Girl Praises a Child on a Horse
Mending
Short-Haired Girl’s Aunt Tells Her about the Woman Who Eats the River
Feeding Hogs as Taught by Short-Haired Girl
Every day is a god
Oil as Taught by Short-Haired Girl
Winter Solstice
Short-Haired Girl’s Dead Cousin Visits
June Evening
Short-Haired Girl’s Father Catalogues Summer Afternoon
First Love as Told by Short-Haired Girl
Map of the Body
Short-Haired Girl Dreams of Her Family
Menstruation as Taught by Short-Haired Girl
Lottery Tickets
Short-Haired Girl Visits Her Brother
August Market
Snapping Turtle Tells Short-Haired Girl about Loneliness
What It Means for the Bear to Eat Ash
February New Moon
Short-Haired Girl’s Father Confesses Her Conception
Short-Haired Girl Stops Going to Church
