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• 9 • Prologue (Vectors: A Week in the Death of a Planet) • essay by Charlee Jacob
• 11 • July 1, 2... • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 12 • Testube/Careless Fictions • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 18 • Specimen • poem by Marge Simon
• 19 • The First Publicly Recorded Plague Victim/Neither Mouse nor Monkey • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 20 • A Stone Opera for the Dying • poem by Marge Simon
• 21 • Asylum • poem by Marge Simon
• 22 • July 2, 2... • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 23 • Infant/Gender Unknown But Replicating Like Stars Sizzling in Love's Chain Reaction Gone Wrong • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 24 • Nurse/On Leave of Absence After Childbirth • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 26 • 512 Passengers/Airline Disaster • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 27 • A City/Paris • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 28 • Message for Europa • poem by Marge Simon
• 29 • Nightclub/The Oxymoron of Death Metal and Swan Song • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 32 • Fireman/Relieved After Extra Long Shift • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 33 • Hermit/Cave on Peruvian Coast • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 34 • Grocer/Middle-Aged in Manhattan • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 35 • Deathwish: Cloister in Newark • poem by Marge Simon
• 36 • July 3, 2... • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 37 • A Fairy Tale • poem by Marge Simon
• 38 • Professor/In the Tenured Walls • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 39 • Beads in the Fire/Where Does a Spirit Go When It Forgets the Dance Steps for Dawn? • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 40 • Fisherman/Coastal Japan • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 41 • Disabled Writer/In Between Novels • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 42 • Spider Rainbows • poem by Marge Simon
• 43 • Aegean Elegy/In History's Poem Once Called Thrace • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 44 • The Repairman/And Repairment Epiphanies • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 46 • Carmen/The Basque Ballerina Descends • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 47 • Of the Children • poem by Marge Simon
• 48 • Nobody Special/At Least I Didn't Die in a Trailer Park • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 49 • Married Couple/Arctic Research Team • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 50 • Crackhouse/Somebody Cried Rave! and That Was All It Took • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 51 • Memories • poem by Marge Simon
• 53 • President or Prime Minister or This or That Dictator/Breaking Story! • poem by Charlee Jacob and Marge Simon
• 55 • July 4, 2... • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 56 • At the Clinic • poem by Marge Simon
• 57 • Elementary School/Picnic Called on Account of the Sins of the Fathers • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 59 • The Woman in the Bar • poem by Marge Simon
• 60 • Spiritualist in Need of Religion/Or Religious Pilgrim Who Misplaced the Spiritual • poem by Charlee Jacob and Marge Simon
• 62 • Soldier in the Last War/Unclear Which Side He Fought For • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 63 • The General's Wife/D.C. • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 64 • From Death Row • poem by Marge Simon
• 65 • Motherly Instinct/Jo-Burg, South Africa • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 66 • T.V. Weatherman/Sores Erupting During Broadcast • poem by Charlee Jacob and Marge Simon
• 67 • Last Concert • poem by Marge Simon
• 68 • Suicide/The Plague Waits for No One • poem by Charlee Jacob and Marge Simon
• 69 • Yours or Mine • poem by Marge Simon (variant of Yours or Mine? 2005)
• 70 • Private Lives of Lizards • poem by Marge Simon
• 71 • Nameless Man/Shot on Bridge by Mililtia • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 73 • Home Alone • poem by Marge Simon
• 74 • Russian Machinist/Laid Off from Work Two Years Ago • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 75 • July 5, 2... • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 76 • When the Moon Explodes • poem by Marge Simon
• 77 • Maintenance • poem by Marge Simon
• 78 • CDC-Who Team/Facility Shutdown • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 79 • The Fifth Day • poem by Marge Simon
• 80 • July 6, 2... • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 81 • Broken Smiles • poem by Marge Simon
• 82 • Animal Species/Not Quite Men or Wolves • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 83 • Archeology Students in Egypt: Prophecy • poem by Charlee Jacob and Marge Simon
• 86 • July 7, 2... • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 87 • Planet/Postmortem • poem by Charlee Jacob
• 89 • Epilogue • poem by Charlee Jacob