Fruit, 1

ISBN-13: 9780299326746 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 96 str.

Bruce Snider

Spis treści

• The Blue Whale Has the Largest Heart of Any Living Creature 3
• I. Homo 7
• Litany for My Father's Sperm 8
• Childless 10
• Fruit 11
• Creation Myth 13
• My Uncle's Barn Cat as the Shadow of Death 14
• Childless 15
• On Swallowing the Fourth Plague of Egypt 16
• Because Eden, from the Hebrew, Meant Pleasure 17
• Childless 19
• Ellipsis, Dash, Bullet Point 20
• Cleaning My Father's Rifle 22
• They Will Not Eat the Bird of Paradise 25
• Why My Father Smells Like the Night 27
• Childless 28
• After Reading the Wikipedia Entry on Homosexual Behavior in Moths 29
• Inside the Creation Museum 30
• The Average Human 32
• Childless 34
• Chemistry 35
• On Billy Lucas, Who Hanged Himself in His Grandmother's Barn 37
• II. Devotions 41
• III. Twin Peaks Bar, San Francisco 47
• Childless 49
• Toy Box 50
• Shelter 51
• Elegy for the Girl I Was 55
• Childless 56
• Litany for My Father's Guns 57
• Still Life with Cows 59
• It's the Dog 61
• Childless 63
• At the Sperm Bank 64
• Prayer for the Bear My Father Shot 65
• Elegy for the Bully 66
• Heaven and Earth 67
• Mendel on His Death Bed 70
• Childless 72
• Creation Myth 73
• Territory 74
• One Day, He Said, I'd Carry on the Family Name 76
• Frutti di Mare 77
• Acknowledgments 81