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      Sometimes our hearts are stone. Sometimes not.

      Brigit Peegen Kelly

      Contents

       Title Page

       Note to Reader

       Pieces on the Ground

       Salmon

       The Museum of Silence

       May Day

       That Thing

       A Rescue

       Wound

       I Saw a House, a Field

       The No-Name Tapestries

       In Dürer’s Engraving

       The Professor of Antiquities

       Vermeer’s Woman in Blue Reading a Letter on Loan in America

       The Offering

       Genuine Fakes

       The Anti-Grief

       Back Back

       That Angel William Blake Kept Talking To

       The Ache

       The Underworld

       Museum Footage, 1945

       Sleep, It’s Just That

       Susanna and the Elders

       Nocturne

       Women

       The Undoing

       No Names or Lost World or the Most

       The Octopus

       To Be in Conversation, He Says, With

       Aubade in Spring

       There Ought to Be a Law against Henry

       All of Us All of Us

       On Halos

       What to Know on a Need-to-Know Basis

       Incant Until Gone

       Justice and Mercy

       Hospital Linens

       Speak to Me

       Divers on Film

       A Firmament

       Light in Winter

       The Carnivorous Plants

       Once a Procession

       The Rings of Saturn

       Keats Is Coughing

       About the Author

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