CONTENTS . oh each poet's a/beautiful human girl who must die . I . Primrose, Orchid, Datura . Seer Stone . II . Against Shame . Relic Hall . Visitation . It is an Old Story but One That Can Still Be Told (Gilgamesh) . And Made My Body an Instrument of the Reckoning . The New Dispensation . This Must Be What Happened (Gilgamesh) . State of the Union . The Dead Teach Me Grounding Techniques . Split . Oh My Darlings . I Go and See a Man About Some Lapis . III . So Many Worlds, So Much to Do . IV . State of the Union . Of Hutto . Towards a Discipline of Joy . The Garden as Partition Like the One in Every Annunciation . And One Ge*ra*ni*um . The Lapis Nuns and the Radium Girls Meet in the Hereafter . Clorox . Elegy . Eyelets . Acknowledgements . Notes