Contents Agape Feast 5 Species 9 Lineage Is Its Own Religion 10 Sibling Medusa 11 Sibling Invention 13 Sibling Bipolar 15 Sibling Frankenstein 17 Sibling Parasitic 18 Ode to Superstition 19 Homesickness Is a Geographic Nostalgia 20 Oxymoronic Love 25 & 27 Chemistry 28 Anubis Love 30 Geographic Tongue 31 Odaxelagnia 33 Erotomania 34 Pledge 35 Fretwork 37 The Punishment of One Is the Love Song of Another 38 What My Mother Wears 41 My Mother's Interiority 42 Job's Comfort 43 Nkisi Nkondi 44 The Narcissist's Parts of Speech 46 Nlasi Nkondi 47 My Mother Is the Wasp Egg Attached to the Belly of the Tarantula 49 The Pact 50 Tough Love in a Vulgar Tongue 52 Dear Hiss: 53 Poem to the Word of my Name 56 My Mother Is in Antarctica 57 Idolatry 63 How Feeling Too Much Is Like Tracking or Taxidermy 64 In the Rainshadow of Whom 65 Blooded Cold 66 How to Construct the Hero of a Western 67 If Our Love Were Jonestown 68 Lake Natron 70 A City Mapped Out in Conversation 71 Electric Fence 72 Ode to Love 77 Notes 79 Acknowledgments 81.