Lucky Fish

CONTENTS
ONE
A Globe is Just an Asterisk

The Secret of Soil 3
A Globe is lustan Asterisk and Every Home Should Have an Asterisk 4
Kansas Animalia 6
Fortune-Telling Parrot 7
Letter Found at the Tower of Silence 8
Four Amulets for a Frightened Farmer 9
Corpse Flower 10
Paper Person 11
A Natural History of the Color Red 12
The Feathered Cape of Kechi (a fable) 14
At Hundred Islands National Park, I Count Only One Island 16
Kottayam Morning I7
If You Find Yourself on a Houseboat I8
At the Center for Retired Great Apes 19
Pie Plate 21
The Soils I Have Eaten 22

TWO
Sweet Tooth

TWELVE / TWELVE / TWELVE 25
Inside a Diorama 27
Mosquitoes 29
::{ concerning snake hips }:: 30
Reptilian's Lament 32
The Mascot of Beavercreek High Breaks Her Silence 33
How to Be a Poet 34
Suppose You Were a Moray Eel 35
Bibliomancy 36
Fruit Thievery: A Lament 37
Last Summer of Singledom 38
Thanksgiving 39
Sweet Tooth 40
Baked Goods 41
Suppose You Chopped Down a Mulberry Tree 43
FOOSH 44
Dear Amy Nehzooukammyatootill, 45
Are All the Break-Ups in Your Poems Real? 46
Dear Betty Brown, 47
The Ghost-Fish Postcards 48

THREE
Lucky Penny

Hedgehog 53
Notes for the Heartbeat at My Feet 54
Birth Geographic 55
Under the Pascal Moon 60
Toy Universe 61
The Light I Collect 62
Lobison Song 64
Come Home, Come Home 65
Memorial Day Derecho 66
Eclipse 67
Waiting for Him to Speak 68
The Sick Diet 70
Two Egg, Florida 71
Inside the Happiness Factory 72
The Latch 73
Rain: A Catalog 74
Lucky Penny 75

Acknowledgments 78