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… dust, snow, rain. No one can really say how many people die in Afghanistan each year—or how many live. The last … The water is thought to absolve the sins of the dead. Sayil points to his house, clinging to the steep mountain. “We are … leg is whose, which arm is whose until the medical examiner comes. One time I had a head and I just didn’t know which …

… far. “They will roll you,” the ranch matriarch warns. Next comes a swift procession of people. One leans in to give a … of all that dung, give the infants to the higher mammals with the softest fur.…   3. Purple petals struggle for … sprout. Durum wheat, soybeans, flaxseed, canola, and peas die in dirt.  “It ain’t gonna grow in the bins,” one farmer …

… a steel plate on the street equaled peace or nostalgia? The company that installed it, Halcyon Construction, is based in … practically inseparable. Then one day Ceyx sailed off and died in a shipwreck, and in her grief Alcyone tried to drown … ghosts are holes with “intentions, a sensibility, morals … an absent being amidst present beings.” Like the gaps …

… the face, only the edges of eyes and lips are visible. In 1926, Brancusi sculpted Bird in Space and shipped it to the … interpret.” Interpretation resists regulation: Sanctions become possibilities. If (after David Graeber) bureaucracy … measures the spread by opening his own arms, their bodies pressed together, their faces nearly touching. Once, I …

… buildings, collecting like water, concentrating as the sun dies. Dozens of them, chained fast under the pretense of … like this.”   4.  “I live right here,” Nathan says and points up two floors. “The light and sound come in my … Hook’s 1991 crime tally: twenty-one murders, ten rapes, 526 robberies, and 364 assaults. Michael H. points to a tree …