"A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of imperial violence and interpersonal abuse, from a poet both "tender and unflinching" (Khadijah Queen)"-- Provided by publisher.

Orchard of knowing --Incident report -- Scheherazade/Scheherazade -- Scientific method -- The nightmare: oil on canvas: Henry Fuseli: 1781 -- Bioluminescence -- Hypothesis -- The cave -- Provenance -- Chrome -- Our Lady of the Sacred Heart -- Landscape with the fall of Icarus: oil on canvas: Pieter Bruegel the Elder: 1560 -- The first law of motion -- Scientific method -- Year of the monkey -- Endosymbiosis -- Lipstick elegy -- Incantation -- I see not stars but their light reaching across the distance between us -- The cave -- Enlightenment -- Progress report -- Scientific method -- Galileo -- The Santa Ana -- Judith slaying Holofernes: oil on canvas: Artemesia Gentileschi: 1620 -- Scheherazade/Scheherazade -- Copernicus -- Orchard of unknowing.