Burn This House

Contents

Table of Contents I Signs 13 Auguries 14 The Trouble with Water 15 The First Lines 16 The Way I Remember, 18 Burned by Salt 21 The Eye on the Sparrow 22 Cleaning Out II Revelation 27 Why Rent Is Cheap in Shoe Lane 31 I Come to You, Thirty-Six Hours by Train 33 Chanter and Drone 35 Children’s Art Is Asylum Art 36 Maybe I Am Gold 37 One in Four of Us Is Marked 39 You Tell Me 41 Electromagnetic Compatibility 43 Sisters III Sin 47 No Good Thing 48 Luxury 49 Sorrow 50 Anger 51 Envy 52 Gluttony 53 Pride 54 Greed IV Virtue 59 Charity 61 Humility 63 Sympathy 65 Patience 66 Industry 67 Restraint 68 Chastity V Judgment 73 To Fill the House 74 Senescence 76 Gammelfleisch 77 A Ripeness, A Bruising 78 To the Bathroom Ghost 79 “I Let the Fish Go” 80 The End 82 Burn This House Burn This House This page intentionally left blank. ...