Poetry. These wildly imploding narratives are held together by hinged lines: in one, a world revolves around mystical bicycle repairmen; in another, everyone lives in a minaret. In political allegory and painterly landscape, philosophical story and dramatic monologue, these poems describe a moment when something marvelous and unforeseen alters the course of a day, a year, or a life. Comic, elegiac, formally intricate, these poems take a second and third look at bathtubs, glaciers, and want, that glass-bottomed boat.