Contents

• Introduction
• Magic
• The Nubian Vultures Have the Floor
• Lynch I
• Devourer
• The Law is Naked
• Rain
• Velocity
• Disaster
• Secret Society
• Nocturnal Crossing
• Among Other Massacres
• The Griffin
• Redemption
• Mississippi
• Blues
• The Scapegoat
• Transmutation
• Dwelling I
• The Sun’s Knife-Stab in the Back of the Surprised Cities
• When in the Heat of the Day Naked Monks Descend the Himalayas
• Attack on Morals
• Son of Thunder
• Permit
• Solid
• The Woman and the Flame
• Millibars of the Storm
• Gallantry of History
• Several Miles from the Surface
• Chevelure
• Scalp
• The Tornado
• Lynch II
• Apotheosis
• Crusade of Silence
• Totem
• Unmaking and Remaking the Sun
• Samba
• Intercessor
• The Wheel
• Calm
• New Year
• Ex-Voto for a Shipwreck
• All the Way from Akkad, from Elam, from Sumer
• To the Serpent
• Torture
• Pennant
• To Africa
• Delicacy of a Mummy
• Demons
• Swamp
• Noon Knives
• Idyll
• Password
• Turn of Events
• Preliminary Question
• Tattooing Gazes
• At the Locks of the Void
• Forfeiture
• To the Night
• Commonplace
• Ode to Guinea
• Horse
• Antipodal Dwelling
• Sun and Water
• From a Metamorphosis
• March of Perturbations
• Barbarity
• Non-Vicious Circle
• Different Horizon
• Death at Dawn
• Howling
• The Light’s Judgment
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors