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Contents Acknowledgments ix You Are a Good Girl I Love You 1 If We Miss the Beginning 10 This Kind of Happiness 11 I Would Stop 20 What Became of What She Had Made 23 The Year We Are Twenty-Three 37 Put the Animals to Bed 47 March On 51 The Good Luck Doll 63 In These Times the Home Is a Tired Place 66 How to Be a Prisoner 74 Like Falling Down and Laughing 78 I Now Pronounce You 94 Buttons 102 January on the Ground 105 Ruckus, Exhaustion 116 Staring Contests 119 The Problem with Moving 127 Blooms Lined Up Like This 130 ...

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