Everything We Always Knew Was True. James Galvin

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      Contents

        Title Page

        Note to Reader

      1  Natura Morta

      2  Roadside Ditch Natura Morta

      3  A Thousand and One Avatars

      4  Snow

      5  Bringing Down the House

      6  The Newlywed Acrobats

      7  Belief

      8  Cinque Terre

      9  What It’s Like

      10  Five Paintings by Clara Van Waning

      11  What It’s Like

      12  Bet

      13  On First Seeing a US Forest Service Aerial Photo of Where I Live

      14  Wildlife Management I

      15  Wildlife Management II

      16  Wildlife Management III

      17  Some Tree

      18  What It’s Like

      19  A Sunday Morning in Humboldt County, California, Circa 1980

      20  The Hunchback

      21  She Said It Was like Talking to a Post

      22  Another Fable

      23  What It’s Like

      24  Isla de los Alcatraces

      25  Winter Scene: The Sign

      26  Why the Ocean Needs to Forget about Morris Louis

      27  Simon Says,

      28  Chain Saw Dreams

      29  Thanksgiving on the Line

      30  Giving Up the Ghosts

      31  On the Sadness of Wedding Dresses

      32  Take as Needed for Pain

      33  Americanathon

      34  Heaven Is a Heavy House: Axe, Drawknife, Auger, Crosscut Saw

      35  The Last Time I Died

      36  Entering the Desert

      37  A Ceremony

      38  Convenience Store

      39  Long Distance

      40  What It’s Like

      41  Arohanui

      42  Why I Am like New Zealand

        About the Author

        Books by James Galvin

        Acknowledgments