The city she was: poems

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CONTENTS -- ONE -- For About Five Minutes in the Aughts -- Pills -- The Walk -- Vita -- Museum of Lost Acquaintance -- The City She Was -- Bleeding Heart -- Division -- TWO -- The Science of Parting -- Beauty Regimen -- The Grand Tour -- Pageant of Scrutiny -- The Skeptic -- In-Between Elegy -- The Endangered You -- Stockholm Syndrome -- Lunatics on My Avenue -- Let Down My Bucket -- Bay Bridge Abstraction -- The If of Omission -- Civilizing Mission -- Smaller, Quieter -- Red Baroness -- THREE -- Mistakes Were Made CONTENTS -- ONE -- For About Five Minutes in the Aughts -- Pills -- The Walk -- Vita -- Museum of Lost Acquaintance -- The City She Was -- Bleeding Heart -- Division -- TWO -- The Science of Parting -- Beauty Regimen -- The Grand Tour -- Pageant of Scrutiny -- The Skeptic -- In-Between Elegy -- The Endangered You -- Stockholm Syndrome -- Lunatics on My Avenue -- Let Down My Bucket -- Bay Bridge Abstraction -- The If of Omission -- Civilizing Mission -- Smaller, Quieter -- Red Baroness -- THREE -- Mistakes Were Made My Fire and Fever FussySoft Power -- Ars Amatoria -- The Terms -- Don�t Get Out Much Anymore -- Rival -- My Open Sesame -- Redaction -- Under a Wan Sun -- Malaprops -- Sometimes There�s a Virgin -- These Halting Plaints -- Don�t I Disappear -- My Hegemony -- Anodyne -- To My Book -- Notes -- Acknowledgments