The Life You Could Have: a memoir

Contents

  1. Bloodlines
  2. Long Suffering Mary
  3. The Rooting
  4. The Cure for Insomnia
  5. Grading
  6. Wrestling Weight
  7. When the Mother Figure Doesn’t
  8. Man Up
  9. I Didn’t Hear It
  10. Camouflage in Still
  11. Bareback
  12. Us
  13. Rank
  14. Ride
  15. It’s a Boy
  16. Refuse
  17. Soothing Teas
  18. impermanent ink
  19. In Yet Another Act of Divine Intervention
  20. How the Coral Reef Ended
  21. Hoard Sorting
  22. Endurance Running Hypothesis
  23. Stay
  24. Inviting
  25. Forcing Roses
  26. Do Not Say You Want That for Me
  27. Doing Life with Matt Funke and the Ilk
  28. The Education of Persons
  29. Pulit
  30. They Took the Ladder
  31. At the Confluence
  32. Did I Ever Tell You about the Last Time I Saw Him
  33. Consecutive December Sixteenths
  34. When I Have My Own Place
  35. An Evening Beyond Baroque Poetry Reading Intermission
  36. The First 48
  37. Of the Life You Could Have
  38. End With Past Tense
  39. It Came Very Slowly for Her
  40. Don’t Try That Tusk of Narwhal on Me
  41. Plant the Habit of Loving
  42. Take Mercy
  43. Still the Butterflies
  44. Habit
  45. Wonderwork Conducting
  46. Aggravating Factors
  47. Sharp
  48. the desert so
  49. Cautious Your Asks
  50. Just Leisure Enough
  51. it was the McDonald’s on Dorsett
  52. Elijo Creer
  53. Post Fatal Brain Injury Reasoning
  54. Quakers Have the Best Babies
  55. Dear
  56. Okay, That Was Just Fantasy
  57. Circling STL
  58. Folktales and Paper Trails
  59. Corey

Photo credit: Ylanite Koppens