My Grandmother's bed -- My Grandfather's poems -- Evening star -- Homage of O'Keeffe -- Incandescence at dusk -- Skywriting -- A short lexicon of torture in the eighties -- And who will look upon our testimony -- Birds-of-paradise -- Siblings -- My father's back -- Execution -- In the underground garage -- For the new world -- When skyscrapers were invented in Chicago -- American apocalypse -- Family stories -- Rapture -- Refusal -- The abortion (1969) -- A photograph ripped in half -- Cemeteries by the sea -- Cross portrait -- Infertility -- Proustian.