Introduction | p. xiii |
Red Blossoms | p. 4 |
The Artichoke | p. 5 |
The Ultimate Orgasm | p. 6 |
The Obsession | p. 7 |
The Life of Borges | p. 8 |
An Alternative to Sex | p. 9 |
The Right Time | p. 10 |
The Message | p. 11 |
Like an Angel | p. 12 |
Amnesia | p. 13 |
Warning to the Reader | p. 15 |
An Oyster Shell | p. 16 |
The Crow's Head | p. 17 |
A Hollow Tree | p. 18 |
The Black Crab-Demon | p. 19 |
An Octopus | p. 20 |
Two Sounds When We Sit By the Ocean | p. 21 |
Calm Day at Drake's Bay | p. 22 |
A Piece of Lichen | p. 23 |
The Orchard Keeper | p. 24 |
History of Clouds | p. 26 |
Parable of the Astral Wheel | p. 27 |
Parable of the Traveler From Qatar | p. 28 |
Hawaiian Shirt | p. 29 |
Unforgiven | p. 30 |
Crimes Against the Future | p. 31 |
To Propagate a Change in Configuration or Bill Gates & The Blue Cow | p. 32 |
Involving the Use of the Word America | p. 33 |
Three Presidents | p. 34 |
Parable of the White House Replica | p. 35 |
"In this wind" | p. 37 |
"No one promised..." | p. 38 |
"The man has lost his way..." | p. 39 |
"A small stranger..." | p. 40 |
"El Paso" | p. 41 |
"At junctures we renamed..." | p. 42 |
"Would I dive again..." | p. 43 |
"Pieces that jammed..." | p. 44 |
"The boy had told a rhyme..." | p. 45 |
"A truck pulled up..." | p. 46 |
An American | p. 48 |
Blues | p. 49 |
The Sorry Part | p. 51 |
The Sixties: Two Scenes | p. 53 |
In History | p. 54 |
The Wheel of Appetite | p. 55 |
The Hawk. The Road. The Sunlight After Clouds | p. 57 |
Brutal Squares | p. 59 |
Memory | p. 60 |
The Bait | p. 62 |
Hereditary Guess | p. 65 |
Votive | p. 66 |
Farm Mutilations | p. 67 |
The Lost Finger | p. 68 |
First Death in Oklahoma | p. 69 |
Wellspring | p. 70 |
The Life of the Body | p. 71 |
Level and Rise | p. 73 |
The Seven Anxieties of Sleep | p. 74 |
The Harpist, Between the Beginning and End | p. 75 |
A Man Who Makes Tears | p. 77 |
The Dark Side of the Moon | p. 78 |
The Lover | p. 79 |
Conjugal | p. 80 |
The Glandular Condition | p. 81 |
The Marionettes of Distant Masters | p. 82 |
The Wheel | p. 83 |
The Family Monkey | p. 84 |
Twins | p. 85 |
Round | p. 86 |
Difficulty at the Beginning | p. 88 |
Saints | p. 89 |
Bzzzzzzz | p. 90 |
The Cure | p. 91 |
A Lecture on Jealousy | p. 92 |
The Holy Ghost | p. 93 |
War Criminal | p. 94 |
The Unforeseen | p. 95 |
Bitter Angel | p. 96 |
Slow Boat | p. 97 |
A Painting Is Never in Love | p. 99 |
Joan Miro Threw a Stone at God | p. 100 |
He Calls His Dog Rimbaud | p. 101 |
Fucking Aztecs, Palomas, Mexico | p. 102 |
The Black Torso of the Pharaoh | p. 103 |
Understanding | p. 104 |
As If Talking | p. 105 |
The Bat | p. 106 |
The Blessing | p. 107 |
Traditional | p. 108 |
Reader of This Page | p. 110 |
Memorial Day | p. 111 |
Buho, Buho | p. 112 |
New Year's Day | p. 113 |
The Exegesis | p. 114 |
After Midnight at the Salvage Yard | p. 115 |
After Chaos Theory | p. 116 |
First Apartment | p. 117 |
Self-Portrait | p. 118 |
River Spirits | p. 119 |
Giraffe on Fire | p. 121 |
At the Exodus Gym/ Valencia Street | p. 122 |
"Who are you?" | p. 123 |
"Hold up the right corner..." | p. 124 |
La Llorona Power-Woman Confidential | p. 125 |
I, Citlalli "La Loca" Cienfuegos: Sutra on the Notebook | p. 128 |
"The little boy breathes..." | p. 129 |
Exiles | p. 130 |
"The gold triangle..." | p. 131 |
Taking a Bath in Aztlan | p. 132 |
The Name | p. 134 |
Laundromat | p. 135 |
Somersault | p. 136 |
The Bear's Money | p. 137 |
Insects | p. 138 |
War Surplus | p. 139 |
The Ukrainian Easter Egg | p. 140 |
Violence on Television | p. 141 |
Stone Arch, National Rock Formation | p. 142 |
The Book | p. 143 |
Enigma of the Stigma, or Vice Versa | p. 145 |
The Doll | p. 146 |
Darwin | p. 147 |
The New Country | p. 148 |
Guy Talk | p. 149 |
Provincetown | p. 150 |
Neanderthal | p. 151 |
Home | p. 152 |
Nettles | p. 153 |
Return | p. 154 |
The Sentence | p. 156 |
A Proclitic Stitch in the Vertical Pull of Roberto Juarroz | p. 158 |
To Live in Pronouns: The Birth of Pedro Salinas | p. 160 |
The Death of Attila Jozsef | p. 161 |
Lemon Seeds of Yannis Ritsos | p. 162 |
Lucien Blaga Was Not a Fish | p. 164 |
Blas de Otero and the Pantry of Blood | p. 165 |
Belgisch Congo, Congo Belge | p. 166 |
Cavafy's Craving | p. 168 |
Brahms and the Taxidermies of Sleep | p. 169 |
Angel Eating Snow | p. 171 |
Watching Her Soul from Below | p. 173 |
Narcissus's Suitcase | p. 174 |
Black Pearl | p. 175 |
Jar of Bees | p. 176 |
Giving Away Bones | p. 177 |
Human with Little Sun in Her Hands | p. 178 |
Anatomy Woman Escapes | p. 179 |
The Chalk Bride | p. 180 |
All of Its Words, Both Winged and Quilled | p. 181 |
The Lake Shore Limited | p. 183 |
Come Back Elvis, Come Back to Holyoke | p. 184 |
The Neighborhood Man | p. 185 |
Bump | p. 186 |
On Weeping Icons | p. 187 |
Love Poem | p. 188 |
The Year of the Man | p. 189 |
Meditation on a Bird Sitting on a Man's Head | p. 190 |
When the Babies Are Missing Again | p. 191 |
The Second Song of Insomnia | p. 192 |
The Words | p. 194 |
The 8th, 9th, and 10th Wonders of the World | p. 195 |
My Father's Hobby | p. 197 |
The Girl Who Became My Grandmother | p. 198 |
Smoking Cigars | p. 199 |
Moon & Flower | p. 200 |
Angel Incident | p. 202 |
Goodbye to the Twentieth Century | p. 203 |
The Face | p. 204 |
The People We Never Heard Of | p. 205 |
The Prose Poem | p. 207 |
The Gulf | p. 209 |
Mountainair, New Mexico | p. 210 |
Four Clouds Like the Irish in Memory | p. 211 |
A Dove | p. 212 |
El Balserito | p. 213 |
Sylvia Plath | p. 214 |
Manitoba | p. 215 |
Plums | p. 216 |
The Wreck | p. 218 |
Souvenir From Anywhere | p. 220 |
Once Ever After | p. 221 |
The Lunar Lutheran | p. 222 |
Free Radicals | p. 223 |
Dim Lady | p. 224 |
Naked Statues | p. 225 |
The Anthropic Principle | p. 226 |
Denigration | p. 227 |
Coals to Newcastle, Panama Hats from Ecuador | p. 228 |
Black Nikes | p. 229 |
I Was Thinking of Poems | p. 231 |
The Mind of Squash | p. 232 |
Living Alone Inside One's Own Body | p. 233 |
Bright Needle Poked Through Dark Cloth | p. 234 |
Paris | p. 235 |
Mint Snowball II | p. 236 |
His Life | p. 237 |
Rain Falling into the River That Moment as They Merge | p. 238 |
Working for Tom | p. 239 |
Island | p. 240 |
"I was stolen by the gypsies" | p. 242 |
Terra Incognita | p. 243 |
Old Postcard of 42nd Street at Night | p. 244 |
"Are Russian cannibals worse than the English?" | p. 245 |
"Time--the lizard in the sunlight." | p. 246 |
"My guardian angel is afraid of the dark." | p. 247 |
The Magic Study of Happiness | p. 248 |
"Lover of endless disappointments..." | p. 249 |
The Old Man Told Me | p. 250 |
Our Angelic Ancestor | p. 251 |
"And when the nights" | p. 253 |
"I never wish..." | p. 254 |
"I watching for it..." | p. 255 |
"If it be event" | p. 256 |
"There comes a time..." | p. 257 |
"Although the paths lead..." | p. 258 |
"What we know..." | p. 259 |
"Shrewd star" | p. 260 |
"I have a friend." | p. 261 |
"I won't go in today." | p. 262 |
Wednesday Morning Pray Time | p. 264 |
Dis/coeurs on the Method | p. 265 |
Housewife's Lament | p. 266 |
A Very Big Wind | p. 267 |
Adam Au Verso | p. 268 |
Representation | p. 269 |
Gustatory/ Hortatory | p. 270 |
Sun Dial | p. 271 |
Self Extension | p. 272 |
Accord | p. 273 |
"Crushed by love..." | p. 275 |
"My mother..." | p. 276 |
"Kitty smiled" | p. 277 |
"When the boy died" | p. 278 |
"Fishing the Powder River..." | p. 279 |
"Midnight, Christmas" | p. 280 |
"My son was possessed..." | p. 281 |
"When I was a young man..." | p. 282 |
"I was home..." | p. 283 |
"I am not an incidental thought..." | p. 284 |
Acknowledgments | p. 286 |
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