CONTENTS
I.
Heartbroken in Your Memoir
The Pre-Raphaelite Effect
Postcard from Long Island City
Instead of Watching the Patriots
Interrogation after The Cremaster Cycle
An Early Nude by Rothko
Postcard from the Villa Catullo
II.
Fin de Siècle
Apologia
Femme Maison
Venice Is Sinking
Vessel
Broken Shoe
Before the Catastrophe
What It Doesn’t Have to Do With
Aubade for Morrissey
III.
The Story of Our Estrangement
Rodin’s Fallen Caryatid
No Echo
On Happiness
Twachtman’s Springtime
Blossom Road
IV.
Summer in Kittery
Dolor Notebook
Lovebird
Widow
On Gardening and Geeshie Wiley
Not Going to Nova Scotia
Epithalamion for Nate
Sunset Redux
Postcard from Mazunte
Acknowledgments
Notes