Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xv
1 Pax Ameraucana, or the Chicken Chronicles 1
2 Who Knew What Would Happen Next? 5
3 Four Brown Eggs! Yaay, Space Nuts! 9
4 What Do Chickens Like to Do? 13
5 Perhaps You've Seen Her? 17
6 I Have a Persistent Thought About My Mother's Thumb 21
7 So I Thought We Would Just Go on Like this Forever 25
8 Thank You, Rufus! 33
9 Dear Rufus, Agnes, & Co 37
10 Flying 41
11 Girls! 45
12 How Many Lost on the Journey? 49
13 Gandhi Samadhi 55
14 Mommy is Not Pure! 59
15 The Old Fox 65
16 Enough Mother 71
17 Leaving You 77
18 St. Michael 83
19 St. Michael, Lover of Animals and Children 89
20 The Song Behind the World: The Nuns of Dharamsala 97
21 Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories 101
22 From: Poems for My Girls 111
23 Grandfather GandhiAnd Mommy's Experiments with Reality 113
24 A Few Kind Words About Stupidity 119
25 Bearded Ladies 125
26 In the Night Mommy Hears Mangoes Falling 129
27 Hi, Gladys, Gladys, Gladys, Gladys, Gladys 133
28 Automatic 135
29 Attachment 141
30 Mommy Writes About Hortensia 145
31 Mommy is so Thankful to Have You Appear 151
32 Gertrude's Neck 157
33 The First Day 163
34 Day Two 169
35 Looking Deeply 175
36 Even Bullies are Missed and Loved 179
37 Ha Ha, Ha Ha, Ha Ha! 183