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Gretchen Legler is the author of On the Ice: An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica and All The Powerful Invisible Things: A Sportswoman’s Notebook, which received two Pushcart Prizes (reissued by Trinity University Press). She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Maine at Farmington. She lives in Farmington with her partner, Ruth. Table of Contents I. WoodsQueer Woodsqueer I Minding the Fence The Three O’Clock Cat Acquainted with the Night Woodsqueer II Lesbian Wedding #1 II. With the Animals The Barn at Midnight With the Animals Woodlot Can of Stones Skinning the Beaver Tracks IV. The Tyrant and the Apple Tree Telling Her Northwoods Law A Chicken in Every Pot The Tyrant and the Apple Tree Her Tenderness Wealthy V. Victory Garden Death Comes for the Red Rooster The Gardener The Sperm at the Door Victory Garden I Wish I Had Been the One to Sing To Him Foragers VI. Consider the Acorn God Gives Us Our Desires Hunters Consider the Acorn Lesbian Wedding #2 Perfect Nima’s Death VII. Honey, Sweetheart, Darling Being in A Body Honey, Sweetheart, Darling