Contents

1. Title Page
2. Dedication
3. Acknowledgements
4. Note
5. Epigraph
6. Death
7. The Way We Were
8. Poem for my Brother on the 29th of October
9. Chet’s Habit
10. The Lonely
11. The Deal
12. The Thing
13. A Crucifixion
14. The Death Mask of the Guitarist
15. Games
16. Feeling Things
17. The Old White Male Poet: an Allegory
18. The Eternal
19. The Garden
20. A Matter of Emphasis
21. The Song of the Human
22. The Higher Hustle
23. You Guys
24. The Overshoot
25. Lazarus
26. About the Author
27. By the Same Author
28. Copyright