Out of the Crazywoods

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
About This Book
Bagw and Tekw
Under the Crib
The Pivot Point
Learning to Speak
What It Is
Age Three—The Witch in the Bag
Angels
Diagnosis
Dirt
She’s Not Heavy, She’s My Sister
The Tarot
Tiger Butter
LOOK
Age Seven—The Body Book
Poppies
At the Welfare Office
Exuberance
Shopping
Crazy Lady in Grad School
In Fourth Grade
What’s Happening?
Jungle Road
Blackouts
Voices
The Bad Mother
Exceptional Children
The Twirling Skirt
Crazy Talk I
The Death Turnpike
Life in the Fast Lane: Am I Paranoid, or Are They Really Out to Get Me?
Meds
Arthur Lloyd
shades
The Bra Thing
I Am in Love with Rita Moreno
Crazy Talk II
Beautiful Doll
The Ugly Year
Krishna, My Love
Poetry for Breakfast
Cribbage
Teaching Castaneda
Losing Them
Meditation—The Barren Road
The Taster
Horse Dream I
Wretched
Baby
Sunday Afternoon with Betty Grable
Islands of Sanity: Poetry
My Bookstore
The New House at Center Harbor
When You Can’t Keep a Job
Denied
Islands of Sanity: Grandsons
Crazy Talk III
Getting Fat on Antidepressants
To Whom It May Concern:
Memere Stories: Sing á Memere
Sunday Dinners
Pookie
Peach Cobbler
Falling in Love with Diane
Talk Doc: Julie
Grand Poobah
Land of Enchantment I
Stories and Storms
New York in Albuquerque
Leaving
The Witch at the Wake
Land of Enchantment II
China Doll
My Special One
After Dropping Acid on a School Night
Yeats
You Bet Your Life
Crazy Talk: Lonely
Eating Worms I
My Mother’s Side
Ceremony
Falling into Grace
A Paycheck Away
Seven Mice
Christmas with Tarot Cards
Geraniums
Citizens for Citizens
Wet Ashes
The Eighth Mouse
Good morning:
Memere Stories: Paint
Not Connect: Abilify Mania
Piano
Memere Stories: Talking
Talk Doc: Karen
Listenings
Giving Myself to Beauty
The Green Quilt
Memere Stories: Howling
Eating Worms II
Greeley Park, Nashua—The Tree
Maura’s Bag
Talk Doc: The Real Work
Relearning the Habits of Childhood
Crying for Real
Horse Dream II
Math Games
Meditation—Fern
Ambien: The Butterfly, Lock, and Key
SAD
Nearly Normal
Memere Stories: Baseball
Stigma
What It Is For
Happy
Alnôbawôgan
Acknowledgments
Source Acknowledgments