Slateku -- II. Pointing the Needle -- Line of Descent -- On My Return from a Business Trip -- Excessive Force -- Trees -- An Honest Man -- Knitting -- Rebuilding -- Clamor -- Cubist Statue -- Three Squared Cinquains -- A Funeral -- My Friend He -- III. The Fruit Eat I -- The Diagnosis -- The Rebuttal -- The Transition -- The Interaction -- The Gift -- The Mission -- The Manual -- The Culmination -- The Valediction -- IV. Who You -- To Ask -- It Is Necessary -- Mrs. Schultz -- Etienne de Fay -- The Politician -- Old Deaf Joke -- Goldilocks in Denial -- The Bully -- Nicholas Saunderson -- At the Holiday Gas Station -- V. Translations -- Peter Cook and Kenny Lerner: Need -- John Maucere: The Friend -- Patrick Graybill: Memories -- Noah Buchholz: The Moonlight -- John Lee Clark: The Rebuttal -- Oscar Chacon: The Lumberjack Story -- Rhonda Voight-Campbell: Solace -- VI. How to Communicate -- A DeafBlind Poet -- Pearl -- I Would That I Were -- Oralism -- Pass -- Order -- I Promise You -- Morrison Heady -- Sorrow and Joy -- Spread -- Treasure -- Approach -- Self Portrait -- How to Communicate.