Contents

I. Underworld
A Postcard from Greece / 3
Hades Welcomes His Bride / 4
Persephone Writes a Letter to Her Mother / 6
From Whose Bourn No Traveller / 9
Eurydice Reveals Her Strength / 10
Eurydice¿s Footnote / 12
How the Demons Were Assimilated & Became Productive Citizens / 14
The Dogdom of the Dead / 16
All Hallows / 17

II. A Bestiary
Cardinal Numbers / 21
Words of Prey / 23
Watching the Vulture at the Road Kill / 24
Why the Saying Is ¿As the Crow Flies¿ / 25
Listening to the Monkeys of the Nearby Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center / 26
RepRoach / 28
Lullaby for Insomniacs / 29
Elegy for a Loggerhead Turtle Washed Up on a South Carolina Beach / 31
A Lament for the Dead Pets of Our Childhood / 33

III. Tour of the Labyrinth
Homecoming / 37
Consolation for Tamar / 38
Apollo Takes Charge of His Muses / 39
Crazy to Hear the Tale Again (The Fall of Troy) / 40
Medea, Homesick / 41
The Wife of the Man of Many Wiles / 42
Ariadne and the Rest / 43
Tour of the Labyrinth / 47
Aeaea / 48
Daphne / 49
Arachne Gives Thanks to Athena / 50
Tithonus / 51
Vale / 52

IV. For the Losers of Things
The Mistake / 59
The Tantrum / 60
Fishing / 61
The Poet¿s Dream of Herself as a Young Girl / 62
The School of Dreams / 64
Study in White / 66
On Viewing an Exhibit of Paintings, The Treasures of Venice / 67
The Machines Mourn the Passing of People / 68
Menielle / 70
Watching the News After the Tornadoes / 71
The Man Who Wouldn¿t Plant Willow Trees / 72
Moving Sale / 73
Where We Moved To / 74
Airing / 76
For the Losers of Things / 77
The Poet¿s Sister / 78
Elegy for the Lost Umbrella / 80
Why Reason Can¿t Overcome an Irrational Fear / 81
Night Shift / 82