Acknowledgments ix 1. Chickens Saved My Life 1 2. The Time It Takes (By Way of an Introduction) 3 3. Secret 7 4. A Possum Fate (Averted) 9 5. Events Unfold in the Snow 12 6. Chicken Feet 17 7. Why Chickens or Homage to Gloria 18 8.
Boomerang 22 9. A Way of Making Another Egg 25 10. Shivers and Shakes 28 11. The Chicken or the Egg 32 12. Strawberry/Fetish 34 13. Life after Life 40 14. The Poetry of Pigs 44 15. Some Musings on Metaphor 45 16.
Tricking the Body 51 17. Chicken Joke 53 18. Nice Paint Job 57 19. Frenzied Calm 59 20. Tokhm-e Morgh 73 21. Disability 74 22. Why Me, Lord? 75 23. Five Down, Two to Go 80 24.
The Warrior Song of King Gesar 81 25. Euphoria 85 26. A Fern Romance 87 27. Weeding 89 28. Untimely 92 29. Blue/Shimmer 93 30. Missed Connection 109 31. Blown through the Air 111 32.
Don't Think about It (For the Moment) 114 33. Spheres of Glass 115 34. Purple Haze 123 35. Cantankerous Rooster 125 36. Dead and Alive: A Tenuous Continuum 128 37. Breakfast Anecdotes 138 38. Landscape 139 39. Tootin Pootin 143 40.
Dragon Inn 150 41. All along the Highway 153 42. A Lion's Roar 156 43. The Ecology of Cancer, and What Do Ants Have to Do with It? 158 44. What Does It Matter? 164 45. So Unctuous and So Tender 166 46. Dorland 169 47. Touched by a Whale 174 48.
Travel 181 49. The Answer Is Not Coming 182 50. Night Club Bouncers 184 51. All Natural 187 52. Anza Borrego 190 53. Lighten Up 197 54. Glad to Be Here (Plaintive Knowledge) 203 55. Stinging Nettles 205 56.
A Talent for Cancer 212 57. Phobia: The Chickens Come Home to Roost 214 58. Walking Meditation 219 59. A Ticket for Tuppence 221 60. Reaching Yirrkala 226 61. Chookless 245 62. Chicken Shit 246 63. Mimetic Pain 250 64.
You Are Mostly Not You 254 65. R.I.P. Elvis, the King of the Cats 260 66. Afterlife 263 67. Art Alive 268 68. Bodies in Pieces 271 69.
A Prospect of Consolation 275 70. Fig Future 278 71. Between Fresh and Rotten 280 72. Blood Poetry 294 73. Shimmer and Glimmer 295 74. I Need an Advocate 297 75. Nameless 302 76. Fermentation Dreams 306 77.
The Structure That a Life Has 309 78. Like a Cat in a Hat, Sleek and Brave: R.I.P. Ryoko 311 79. The Malvolio Gene 314 80. What Do You Expect? 318 81. Chimera 320 82.
The Last Chicken Standing 335 83. Arrivderci 338 Notes 343.