CONTENTS

HABITAT

The Resurrection of the Body

Rates of Combustion

Habitat

First Light

Exposure

Pyramid Scheme

Sovereignty

The Seamstress

Mimesis

Sempervirens in Winter

Human

A Victorian Connoisseur of Sunsets

Temperament

The Double Altar on Pine Ridge

The Wreck of the Psyche

Vernacular

Ghost Dance Witch Hunt Blues

Quill

Consolation to a Dancer

Venery

Ancestral Tumulus

An Oracle Madrone

Caesar

Doxology

Poetics

The New Colossus

The Juggernaut of the Apocalypse

Night of the Comet

WL 8338

Near Buckeye Forks

Sierra Gentians

Siegfried's Destiny

Ode on Water

To a Swiss Mountaineer on Shasta

Ranch House at Swarts

TIMON OF PHLIUS:
IN THE MUSES’ BIRDCAGE

1. The Seminar

2. The Witness

3. The Reader

4. The Hawk

5. The Pond

6. Learning to Drown

7. Scarcity Economics

8. The Image

9. The Mayflies

10. My Favorite Metaphor

11. Beauty & The Cripple

SUBSTRATE

A Painted Hemisphere

Alluvion

Drake's Psalmistry

Garcés in Oraibe (July 3, 1776)

Esselen Bowmen Among Savants

Fandango

The Staves

Brandy & Cigars

The Peltries

Commonwealth

After the Rodeo

Wild Mustard Remembers

The Lances of Old Spain at San Pascual 106

Annals of San Francisco (Days of 1854) 108

Justice Takes a Holiday

Cinnabar

Epistemology

Terms of Employment

Advent

Spanish Song

When the Talkies Came to Town

Two Million Feet of Vinyl

Orion the Hunter

Paisano

Our Music on the Shore

Acknowledgments and Notes