I. Late poems -- Ghost cat -- Salt -- Passports -- Blizzard -- Coconut -- Souvenirs -- The tin woodwoman gets a massage -- If there were no emptiness -- II. Health class (1953) -- A genre painting -- Princess clothing -- Cicadas -- Double-entry slug sex -- Everyone else's sex life -- Betrayal -- Frida Kahlo, San Miguel, Ash Wednesday -- Cassandra considers declining the gift -- Shadow -- Songs for murdered sisters. 1. Empty chair -- 2. Enchantment -- 3. Anger -- 4. Dream -- 5. Bird soul -- 6. Lost -- 7. Rage -- Coda: Song -- The dear ones -- Digging up the Scythians -- III. September mushrooms -- Carving the Jacks -- A drone scans the wreckage -- Aflame -- Update on werewolves -- Zombie -- The aliens arrive -- Siren brooding on her eggs -- Spider signatures -- At the translation conference -- IV. Walking in the madman's wood -- Feather -- Fatal light awareness -- Fear of birds -- Short takes on wolves -- Table settings -- Improvisation on a first line by Yeats -- "Heart of the Arctic" -- Plasticene suite. 1. Rock-like object on beach -- 2. Faint hopes -- 3. Foliage -- 4. Midway Island albatross -- 5. Editorial notes -- 6. Sorcerer's apprentice -- 7. Whales -- 8. Little robot -- 9. The bright side -- Tracking the rain -- Oh children -- The twilight of the gods -- This fiord looks like a lake -- V. One day -- Sad utensils -- Winter vacations -- Hayfoot -- Mr. Lionheart -- Invisible man -- Silver slippers -- Within -- Flatline -- Disenchanted corpse -- Dearly -- Blackberries.