Contents
Poems
I. Visitations and Sightings
They Abandon the Search for Federico
On Cleaning Up All These Ashes in the Sand
Dolls (3)
The Essential Flavors of the Finite
Nothing to Take Back
1959
Greening Over Them Blues
Winter Morning, Venice Beach, 2006
Red Toile
Lets Call It Chicago
Sassafras & Morphine
Anthony Jerome
Ashes Scatterd at Sea
To the Chef's Widow—This Breaking of Bread
Crossing Campus
A Mutant Angel Speaks
San Diego State of Mind
Sangria Sangria
New Love's Mastery
Quasheba
Essay on a Marriage
O Soul Concealed Below
Detroit Left at the Moon
The Hives
Where My Blues Done Gone
II. Channelings
Ouphe & Barghest
Ode to a Lost Piece of Hose
Ending the Arts by Parts
9/11, The Reznikoff Variation
Port Aransas Second Hand
Rosy Babe
Footnote to an Unfinished Poem
Nefertari Speaks
What the Gin Rummy Queen Taught Me
No Houdini Breakthrough Yet
Footnote to an Unfinished Poem (2)
Black Beans and Rice
Tell It to the Walls Mom
Coltrane's "Naima" Narrative Transmigrated by Himself
Love Without Summers
My Neruda
Auguries (7)
III. Bleatings
Lioness
White Pepper
Unspoiled
My Crowning Glory
A Talk with My Grandson, Age Six
Stagnation and Return
Fear of Screaming
Endless Mornings Spent in Nameless Rage
Shitworker in GeneralL (2)
Noise (3)
Darkest Shadow of the Self
The Warnings in a Mad Dog's Eyes
The Blood this Morning
Morning Again
Dearest One
I Followed My Dream
Footnote to an Unfinished Poem (3)
How We Differ: Quasheba to Eve
Blacker than Black
Orb Weaver
The War of Wars
Orb Weaver (2)
What Littel I Know About Truth
IV. Throbs
Morning in Kentwood
Espantalalepsis (4)
Jimi Jam Ses
Once Upon a Kiss—A Celebration
The Jinn Abandoned
Inside the Trap of Your Knowing
The Hives (2)
Yardwork
Prelude to a Stroke
One Man Acts Alone Against Death
A Romantic Marriage
The Crying Man
Night Drives
Going to Blazes
My Own Private Resurrection
Untitled
The Mingus Effect
Southerly Equinox
Notes
Acknowledgments