Divided 1
The Beginning of the End, or In Your Liver 10
Dr. Deb, or Congocancer 14
Somnolence 18
Cancer Town 21
Dr. Handsome 24
What We Don't Know Going into Surgery 26
This Is Where You Will Cross the Uji River 31
Two Questions 35
Uterus = Hysteria 36
Falling, or Congo Stigmata 41
Lu 45
Here's What's Gone 47
The Stoma 49
How'd I Get It? 54
Circumambulating 58
Ice Chips 61
Patient 65
The Rupture/The Gulf Spill 68
Becoming Someone Else 74
Beware of Getting the Best 78
Stages/5.2B 84
Infusion Suite 90
Arts and Crafts 93
The Room with a Tree 99
A Buzz Cut 106
Getting Port 108
The Chemo Isn't for You 110
Tara, Kali, and Sue 115
Crowd Chemo 119
The Obstruction, or How Tree Saved Me 123
I Was That Girl Who Was Supposed to Be Dead, or How Pot Saved Me Later 126
Riding the Lion 133
Chemo Day Five 134
On the Couch Next to Me 137
I Love Your Hair, or The Last Time I Saw My Mother 141
It Was a Beach, I Think 147
Shit 149
Rada 152
Death and Tami Taylor 157
A Burning Meditation on Love 162
My Mother Dies 170
De-Ported 178
Live by the Vagina, Die by the Vagina 181
Farting for Cindy 186
It Wasn't a Foreboding 190
Congo Incontinent 195
Leaking 198
She Will Live 199
Sue 203
Joy 204
Mother 207
Second Wind 210