One secret thing

Part One: War woman with the lettuce

Legless fighter pilot

What could happen

The dead

When he came for the family

The signal

The leader

The smile

Free shoes

The body-sniffers

His crew

The body Part two: The Cannery the Cannery, 1942-1945

Diagnosis

At night

Behavior chart

Calvinist parents

Money

Fly on the wall in the Puritan home

Maiden name

Men's singles, 1952

The float

Freezer

The bra

The couldn't

Home theater, 1955

Paterfamilias

Easter1960 Part Three: Umbilicus Umbilicus

when our firstborn slept in

Toth Farry

Home Ec

The Space Heater

Barbarous artifacts

Animal dress

Royal Beauty Bright

Self-exam

The riser

Wooden ode

The scare

Pansy Coda

Last words, death row, circa 2030

Self-portrait, rear view

The dead

Sleeves

Good measure Part Four: Cassiopeia He is taken away

The music

The ecstatic

Two late dialogues Mom as Comet Her Creed Warily, Sportsman! Little end ode

Something is happening

Cassiopeia Part Five: One Secret Thing Still life

One secret thing

The last evening

Last hour

To see my mother

When I left her

Western wind

Satin Maroon

Nereid elegy.