4 An Incomplete Memory of the Body
5 To Reduce Your Likelihood of Seduction by the Boto
6 The Fate of My Seven Husbands
7 If Marriage Is a Duel at Ten Paces
9 When I Go to Prison to Meet My Father
11 At Play in the Fields of the Lord
12 In Which the Chorus Paints a Family Portrait at Boi Bumbá
13 Revenant
14 What They Found in the Diving Bell
2 Ecce Homo, He Says, and I Do
4 In Which the Chorus Appears at the Wedding Rehearsal, Ominous as Angels
5 Virago
6 On the Feast Day of Our Lady Hippolyta
7 The Heart in Jeopardy Fabricates a New Fortune
9 In Which the Chorus Whispers the Rumors
10 The Unverifiable Resurrection of Adão da Barco
11 After the Flood the Captain of the Hamadryas Discovers a Madonna
12 Misbegotten
2 Plantation Landscape with Seven Unwanted Children and Pollinating Rubber Trees
7 After Seven Lullabies Vanish from the Library
8 In Which the Chorus Relates the Somewhat True History of Puraquequara
10 Idyll, or Impossible Epithalamium
11 In Which the Chorus Tries to Be as Clear as Possible
1 Saudade
The Last Time I Saw My Daughter’s Eyes, They Were on the Back of a Moth’s Wings
I’m almost ready to give her up for dead. I tried
believing she’ll appear someday on a boat from
downriver where she’s been making a living
as a dancer who glues yellow feathers to her breasts
and lets tourists eat maracujá from her navel.
I tried the easier faith of a gift-bearing God who
serves
