When You Walk over the Earth 4
On the Morning of the Port Surgery 5
In the Event of My Death 6
Man You Are the Boy You Are 7
In the Early Days of a Global Pandemic 10
Finishing Emily Dickinson, First Deacon in William Blake's Church of the Marriage of Heaven and Hell, in the Oncologist's Waiting Room 11
Outside Atlanta Cancer Care 12
An Unexpected Turn of Events Midway through Chemotherapy 14
Quid Pro Quo: A Dedication 18
Emiloma: A Riddle & an Answer 20
Ode to Money, or Patient Appealing Health Insurance for Denial of Coverage 22
A Week before Surgery, I Practice My Body 24
I Wake to Find You Wandering the Museum of My Body 25
To the Pathologist Reading My Breast, Palimpsest 27
Five Days before the Mastectomy, Insurrection at the Capitol 28
Woman with Amputated Breast Awaits PET Scan Results 30
Woman with Amputated Breast at her Mother-in-Law's Grave 31
Ilya, Orphaned, after the Bough Fell through Our Roof 33
Woman with Amputated Breast Returns for her Injection 36
Standing in the Forest of Being Alive 37
Scheduling the Bone Scan 39
In the Shadow of This Valley 43
Said the High Priestess to the Magician 44
To the God of Radiation 46
