Contents
from Reading the Water 1997
The Mummy Meets Hot-Headed Naked Ice-Borers
The Death of Santa Claus
Prayer for the Man Who Mugged My Father, 72
Spiders
The Crane Boy
One Story
In Praise of Pliny
Umbrellas
Broken Toe
Peaches
Invocation to Allen as the Muse Euterpe
The Shape of History
from Liver 1999
Wedding Dress
Over the Town
Biblical Also-Rans
Musk Turtle
Tone of Voice
Tenderness in Men
Prozac
Byron, Keats, and Shelley
Someone Else‘s Good News
Losing My Hair
Love Poetry
Descent
from Tulip Farms and Leper Colonies 2001
Did That Really Happen?
To Prove that We Existed Before You Were Born,
Charles Harper Webb
Vikings
A Salesman and a Librarian
Death Comes to the Baby Boom
Waking at 3 A.M.
Cocksucker
Waiting
Socks
To Make My Countrymen Love Poetry
from Hot Popsicles 2005
Consciousness
Rat Defeated in a Landslide
To Set Himself Off from the Crowd,
Conan the Barbarian
A Ticklish Situation
Judge Frosty Presiding
Imp of the Verbose
Hot Popsicles
Superman, Old
Making Things Right
from Amplified Dog 2006
Amplified Dog
Ooh My Soul
My Wife Insists That, On Our First Date, I Told Her I Had Seven Kinds of Hair
The New World Book of Webbs
Pumpkin Envy
Cat Possessed by Poet Keats
Prayer to Tear the Sperm-Dam Down
The Animals Are Leaving
A Meal Not Eaten
A Grand Opening of Hearts
The Open-Air Recital Survived a Shaky Start
How to Live
New Poems
Shadow Ball
Comebacks
Blues
Sneaker Males
Goddess
Feeders
“Ghost of a Chance“
Big
Kidnapper-Couple Who Forgot to Leave a Ransom Note Sentenced to 14 Years
Teachers’ Names
We‘ve Got Rhythm
I Have Much Better Poems than This
He Won’t Go to Sleep Without Me,
Flashlight