contents
loose strife (“Somebody says draw a map”)
loose strife (“Listen closely as I sing this”)
loose strife (“Afterward one woman says”)
loose strife (“As in loosely inspired by Aeschylus’s”)
loose strife (“It seemed to come out rear first”)
loose strife (“When he comes to the gate”)
loose strife (“Even Homer recognizes the barbarism of the act”)
loose strife (“Leonine”)
loose strife (“I will not say its name”)
ars
loose strife (“When I first learned”)
IV
loose strife (“Say, when we woke”)
loose strife (“Nights in the loft”)
loose strife (“At dinner the following night”)
loose strife (“There in the clouds”)
Forward!
loose strife (“At ninety-seven Mimi says”)
variation (“Another example of this inability”)
variation (“Conversely the conclusion of Stanislaw Lem’s 1961 novel”)
craft (“The first great poet”)
The Lord be with you but not also with you
Noli Me Tangere
craft (“The man in the Hawaiian shirt”)
loose strife (“Embarrassingly it was just outside the tunnels”)
Someone once said we were put on this earth to witness and testify
Abortion on demand and without apology
loose strife (“Everyone dreams of being harmed”)
They say she went out through the living room window
loose strife (“Some critics say”)
loose strife (“Everywhere in the seven seas”)
loose strife (“We are not allowed that”)
Notes
Acknowledgments