Part I. Holy Orders In Defense of Poetry Part II. Penance Paterson How We Go The Mother Called Meh-lay-gross The English Teacher Gets a Lesson in Inference The Truth about Dionna The Room Toss Villanelle Ladies' Day at the Playhouse Bastard Ghazal for the Death of SNAP Welfare Mothers Part III. Holy Orders Unto Others Part IV. Anointing of the Sick My Father Asks Me to Kill Him The Christmas Gift Never Too Late for Amazement Grandpa's 70th Birthday The Nursing Home Silver Alert Second Drink Exercises in Mourning Part V. Baptism The Box Marked "F" What I Learned About My Father I Learned One Day at the Beach in 1986 Daughter Memorial Park My Parents' New House, One Year After Hurricane Sandy Inheritance 4 Part VI. Confirmation One Among the Miscreants Faith Mother Teresa, Our Dearly Beloved Mother The Rapture 'Til Death Before Grief Initiations Parany The Fourth of July On Route 208 Part VII. Holy Orders The Social Worker's Advice Part VIII.

Communion Trial by Onions Receiving Communion Cloistered Some Joy Expectations Brittany's Tattoo XIV: Holy Orders Looking for Whitman.