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Contents

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

DEDICATION

Ode

The Corners

Rental Car

Fables of the Reconstruction

A Western

When Asked Why He'd Been Talking to Himself, Pyrrho Replied He Was Practicing to Be a Nice Fellow

Affirmations

Museum of the Thing

The World

Your News Hour Is Now Two Hours

Childhood Triptych

Be Reasonable

The National Gallery

Rothko via Muncie, Indiana

Interior

Mole

Via

I Let Love In

Lift Up Your Eyes

All That Is Certain Is Night Lasts Longer Than the Day

Keebleville

Birth of the Rifle

The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out

Forty

Life Is a Carnival

Roof Repair and Squirrel Removal

Sault Ste. Marie

Wrap Party

Conversion

The National Gallery II

The Midlands

Lord of Fog

Darklands

A Good Hotel in Rotterdam

Trouble Light

Bitumen

Prospect

Museum of the Thing II

Rural Conflation Sonnet

For the Ski Jump at Canada Olympic Park, Calgary

Against Lyric

Spiral

Man Is a Rational Animal

The Living Option

NOTES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ALSO BY KAREN SOLIE

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