Biography -- Catching flounder: self taught -- Post office: 1952 -- A gambler's daughter -- Stories at the cocktail hour: a still life with gin -- Learning to dance -- The Episcopalian ladies' rummage sale -- What a tomato! -- Wait for me, mother -- Life above water -- Them -- Drowning glasses -- Lonely hearts -- At the fireman's carnival beer tent -- Myself as a member of my family -- From read: weep: eat -- Text contratext -- Hand -- Strange events -- Copying out -- Ellipsis -- Illiterate -- Margin/text/margin -- The five paragraph essay -- Two views of a woman trying to balance in discount store shoes (ca. 1969) -- From eating red meat -- A debauch of oysters -- Silky -- Smell -- Acrylic nails -- Lingerie -- The tequila wars -- A Rumpelstiltskin kind of trick -- The florist's wife feasting -- Some came home -- Missing in action -- Letter from a muck farm -- Perspective -- Might have been -- Yeast -- On lake Huron -- Lost earring -- When you travel alone -- Garage sale after divorce papers are served -- Trading stories of light with Saint Lucy -- Another bottle of Perez sherry -- The temperature of breast milk -- Car parts -- Suit(e) for John -- Invisible -- S.A.D -- Candling -- Backward -- Garden Party -- Alchemy at Lent -- Spatial relations -- Fish, Spring, window -- Black leather.