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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Prologue | |
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| ...Coda: An infinite singularity, a space for heaving | |
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| When I first met P.S., he was rehearsing a play | |
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| ...of some malingering entity | |
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| My body wasn't taken with me | |
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| ...of the symbols of fecundity or hope | |
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| In the beginning, there were many signs | |
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| ...more permanent fruits, the portraits of the dead | |
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| A Heuristic Account of What Is at Stake | |
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| ...a daring carrier pigeon forever circling overhead | |
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| There ought not to be erasers or cleaning solvents | |
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| ...that they would all forever stay alive | |
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| Introduction | |
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| ...bright pollen, beauteous butterflies | |
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| On the Varieties of Winged Creatures | |
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| ...on a little, wooden toy horse to play | |
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| On Probability | |
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| ...the last account of his having relations with another real human being | |
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| On the Use of Dialogue in Literature | |
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| ...into the sympoietic system of that vast otherness | |
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| They would wait weeks for the sun to rise | |
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| ...she would refuse to let in the maintenance men | |
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| It was the particular feel of him that made me want to go back | |
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| ...somehow still the need to proceed | |
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| What the reader desires, perhaps even more than the author | |
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| ...I had in some way seen it | |
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| The Realization of the Infinite | |
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| ...never needing to feed off the dead | |
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| Before dying, the old woman said that she had been dreaming | |
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| ...the smell of just-cooked rice | |
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| Every Winged Thing Passes Unmolested Through Infinity | |
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| ...stitched and torn, cut and spliced | |
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| An Introduction to Invertebrate Zoology | |
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| ...of which her tiny organism, so insubstantial, will never know | |
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| Notebook for the Amateur Naturalist | |
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| ...should it be found and turned in | |
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| On the Care & Repair of Books | |
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| ...living their same previous private unread anthologized shelf-ridden lives | |
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| Payne's Grey | |
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| ...evidence of a suspicious nature | |
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| Essay on Trees | |
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| ...the signpost that spells out what never was | |
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| I want to say that it happened sometime | |
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| ...is not clearly understood | |
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| Among the many various differences, I truly believed | |
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| ...being transcribed and prepared for publication by Karena | |
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| February Fooled the Forsythia | |
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| ...the heaving of breaking apart | |
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| Strange Mechanism for a Dream | |
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| ...all in a confusion of lateday ringings | |
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| On the Reading of | |
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| ...Epilogue:...I too will slice open the belly of a great heaving | |
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| Notes and Further Acknowledgments | |
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| The Author | |