Contents
I. From the Cables of Genocide
Drawings: For John Who Said to Write about True Love
Persona Ingrata
The Levee: Letter To No One
The Poet Is Served Her Papers
Santa Cruz
Litost
Politeness Takes Her Turn
The House He Falls in Love With
Valentine
II. On Love and Hunger
My Dinner with Your Memory
Raisins
Night Stand
On Love and Hunger
On Speaking to the Dead
Flatirons
Death Song
Abortion
Colorado
Hotel
Colorado Blvd
On Touring Her Hometown
To We Who Were Saved by the Stars
Pleiades from the Cables of Genocide
III. The Captive Verses
Europa and Calafia
The Captive’s Verses
Plenos Poderes
Le Petit Mal
Lápiz Azul
Y Volver
“Love of My Flesh, Living Death”
Macho
Ode to a Ranger
Daffodils
IV. On the Fear of Going Down
On Locomotion
Walking Around
Continental Divide
Buckshot
Shooting the Wren
Point Lobos
The Last Meal
Fisherman
On Finding the Slide of John in the Garden
On the Last Anniversary
On the Fear of Going Down