Includes bibliographical references.

The Cree word for a body like mine is weesageechak -- Love and heartbeak are fuck buddies -- Gay incantations -- Notes from a public washroom -- There is a dirt road in me -- Wihtikowak means "men who can't survive love" -- The rez sisters II -- Six theses on why Native people die -- Sacred -- A history of the present -- We were never meant to break like this -- I am hoping to help this city heal from its trauma -- Heartbeark is a white kid -- If I have a body, let it be a book of sad poems -- Grief after grief and grief after grief -- The creator is trans -- The back alley of the world -- Native too -- Colonialsim: a love story -- God's river -- Love and other experiments -- Towards a theory of decolonization -- Okcupid -- An elegy for flesh -- Everyone is lonely -- There is no beautiful left -- Boyfriend poems -- God must be an Indian -- Sexual history -- Time contra time -- Something like love -- Ode to northern Alberta -- The Oxford journal -- If our bodies could rust, we would be falling apart -- The rubble of heartbreak -- Wapekea -- Love is a moontime teaching -- Epilogue.

Griffin Poetry Prize.