Contents

  1. The Afterlife
  2. Afterward (Little Evening Sermon)
  3. Alternating Current
  4. Anti-Ambition Ode
  5. Articles of Faith
  6. Arts of Camouflage
  7. A Student in a Distant Land
  8. Bay Arena
  9. A Beginner’s Guide to Endings
  10. Bell Tower
  11. Beloved Infidel
  12. Bird Sanctuary
  13. Bivouacked & Garrisoned Capitol
  14. Bolinas, California
  15. The Brutal Filament Inside Aglow
  16. The Business of Love is Cruelty
  17. Casting Off
  18. Changing Genres
  19. Changing Your Bulb
  20. Charm School
  21. Chest Pains of the Romantic Poets
  22. Clam Ode
  23. Cloud Shadow on Water
  24. Commencement Address
  25. The Commendation
  26. Cotton in a Pill Bottle
  27. Deadline
  28. Dear Friend
  29. Dear Reader
  30. Delphiniums in a Window Box
  31. Discharged Into Clouds
  32. Dog Toy
  33. Drama in Last Acts
  34. Drunker Etc.
  35. Easily Bruised
  36. Easy as Falling Down Stairs
  37. Edios
  38. Elegy on Toy Piano
  39. Errata
  40. Even Funnier Looking Now
  41. An Excitement of Windows
  42. Exit Exam
  43. Exit Ovidian
  44. Facet
  45. Fate
  46. Fire is Speaking
  47. The First Time & the Time Before That
  48. First You Must
  49. Flamenco
  50. Flood Plain
  51. Frottage
  52. Gaga Gala
  53. Ghost Gust
  54. Glider
  55. Grand Attempt
  56. Gruss
  57. Halfstory Halflife
  58. Hammer
  59. Handy Guide
  60. Happy Hour
  61. Harvest
  62. Hello Old Friend
  63. Hold On
  64. How Grasp Green
  65. How I Get My Ideas
  66. How to Be a Surrealist
  67. Human Lot
  68. The Infirmament
  69. The Invention of Heaven
  70. Inverness Grey
  71. I Said Yes I Meant No
  72. I See a Lily on Thy Brow
  73. Lace
  74. Last Words
  75. Learn By Doing
  76. Lives of the Olympians
  77. Lives of the Poets
  78. Lives of the Robots
  79. Loose-Strife
  80. Lucifer
  81. Luciferin
  82. May Deaths
  83. More Anecdotal Evidence
  84. Mortal Ode
  85. My People
  86. Myth Mix
  87. My Work among the Insects
  88. The New Optimism
  89. The New Savagery
  90. No Forgiveness Ode
  91. Note Enclosed with My Old Jean Jacket
  92. Ode to Hangover
  93. Off the Hook Ode
  94. The Old Enthusiasms
  95. On Being Asked by a Student If He Should Ask Out Some Girl
  96. One Story
  97. Oracle
  98. Original Monkey
  99. Our Kind of People
  100. Out in the Sapphic Traffic
  101. The Oversight Committee
  102. Phantom Pains
  103. Pleasure
  104. Poem with a Stone in It
  105. Procession
  106. Pweth
  107. Ready-Made Bouquet
  108. Red Glove Thrown in Rosebush
  109. Resignation Letter
  110. Restoration Ode
  111. Revolutions Tend toward Orthodoxy
  112. The Rhythms Pronounce themselves Then Vanish
  113. The River Merchant, Stuck in Kalamazoo, Writes His Wife a Letter during Her Semester Abroad
  114. Robert Desnos (1900–1945)
  115. Rothko’s Yellow
  116. Rubber Typewriter
  117. Rushing through the Night
  118. Scarecrow on Fire
  119. Scherzo
  120. Scribblers Everywhere
  121. Selected Recent and New Errors
  122. Sex with Strangers
  123. Side Effects
  124. So the Grasses Grow
  125. The Soul
  126. Sources of the Delaware
  127. Speech Therapy
  128. Springtime for Snowman
  129. Static City
  130. Storms
  131. Sunflower
  132. Teetering Lullaby
  133. Thing Is
  134. Three Weeks Late
  135. Thrown as if Fierce and Wild
  136. Today’s Visibility
  137. Tongue Doctor
  138. To Those of You Alive in the Future
  139. Trace Elements
  140. Tribe
  141. The Unattainable
  142. Undertow
  143. Unstable Particles
  144. Upon Hearing of My Friend’s Marriage Breaking Up, I Envision an Attack from Outer Space
  145. Vacationland
  146. The Velvet Underground
  147. Vermeer
  148. Warbler
  149. Whale Watch
  150. What Form after Death
  151. Where I Left Off
  152. While You Were at the Doctor’s
  153. Whoz Side U On, Anyway?
  154. Wind Off a River
  155. Winged Purposes
  156. With Hidden Noise
  157. Wolfspeak
  158. Yawn
  159. You Could Always Teach
  160. Zero Hour