Cover -- Author Biography -- Also by Maria Takolander -- Title Page -- Imprint Page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Confessions -- Nox -- Cruel -- Shadow -- Waking in the Blue -- Lullaby -- Argument -- Shattered Head -- Daddy -- Knife -- Déjà-vu -- Domestic -- Cuckoo Clock -- Ragdoll Cat -- Dogged -- Bed -- Toilet -- Curtains -- Closet Mirror -- Telephone -- Cigarette -- Television -- Lift -- Refrigerator -- Washing Machine -- Baby Monitor -- Escalator -- Pot Plant -- Outside -- Guilfoyle's Volcano -- Haiku for the Anthropocene -- 1. Ceiba Insignis (White Silk Floss Tree)
2. Cereus Peruvianus (Peruvian Apple or Apple Cactus) -- 3. Echinocactus Grusonii (Golden Barrel Cactus) -- 4. Cleistocactus Winteri (Golden Rat Tail) -- 5. Euphorbia Caput-medusae (Medusa's Head) -- 6. Echinopsis Spachiana (Torch Cactus) -- 7. Agave Franzosini (Grey Ghost) -- 8. Agave Victoriae (Royal Agave) -- The Bean Seller's Tale -- Scenes from a Documentary -- 1. Ursus Maritimus (Polar Bear) -- 2. Arachnocampa Luminosa (Glow Worm) -- 3. Chelonia Mydas (Green Sea Turtle) -- 4. Apteryx Australis (Southern Brown Kiwi) -- Chernobyl Redux -- 1. Liquidation -- 2. Bio-robots -- 3. Dark Tourism
4. The Red Forest -- 5. What Was Invisible Now Becomes Visible -- Fractured States of America -- 1. Space Junk -- 2. Sinkhole Alley -- 3. Iceberg Wrangler -- Rock -- Messages from Medellín, the Murder Capital -- Murder Mystery -- Routine Elegy -- Goldilocks Has Gone Missing -- Night, Falling -- Teaching My Son Finnish -- Night: A Personal History -- Coda -- On Happiness -- Notes -- Acknowledgements