Pathetic fallacy -- Revelations in the key of K -- Oratorio for the unbecoming -- Disgraceland -- Métaphysique du mal -- Descending theology. The Nativity -- Delinquent missive -- This lesson you've got -- Choice -- A major -- Waiting for God : self-portrait as skeleton -- At the sound of the gunshot, leave a message -- Elegy for a rain salesman -- Who the meek are not -- Hypertrophied football star as serial killer -- Orders from the invisible -- Requiem : Professor Walt Mink (1927-1996) -- Pluck -- Descending theology. Christ human -- Miss Flame, apartment bound, as undiscovered porn star -- Reference for ex-man's next -- Winter term's end -- Entering the kingdom -- Descending theology. The garden -- Hurt Hospital's best suicide jokes -- Sinners welcome -- First step -- A tapestry figure escapes for occupancy in the real world, which includes the death of her mother -- Mister Cogito posthumous -- For a dying tomcat who's relinquished his former hissing and predatory nature -- Coat hanger bent into halo -- Last love -- Ice fisherman -- Descending theology. The crucifixion -- Red-circled want ad for my son on his commencement -- Son's room -- Easter at Al Qaeda Bodega -- Garment district sweatshop -- Overdue pardon for mother with knife -- Descending theology. The resurrection -- A blessing from my sixteen years' son -- Orphanage -- Still memory -- Meditatio -- Afterword: Facing altars : poetry and prayer.