Contents
The Angel of Interruptions
I
Maritime
Desire and the Slave Trade
Crush
Soul Music
About the Body, Beauty
Narcissus Learning the Words to This Song
Eros in His Striped Blue Shirt
The Other August
Depth of Field
Narcissus at the Adonis Theater
Two Versions of Midsummer
Trick of the Light
My Brother the Rain
Deep Water
II
A Man Named Troy
“Orpheus and Eros” by George Platt Lynes
He and Sleep Were Brothers
Narcissus in Plato’s Cave
The Light Sieves What Escapes from Me
Follow Me
The Gods at Three A.M.
The Moon with Its Cargo of Bullion
Jouissance
Black Ice on Green Dolphin Street
Blue
Drawing from Life
Narcissus Was a Sad Boy, but a Heavenly
Art and Illusion
Tornado Watch
Sam Cooke Would Be Sixty-One This Year
Skin Trade
Orion
III
A Plague for Kit Marlowe
Narcissus as Gnostic
“Belief in Antinoüs”
A Little Knowledge
Narcissus and the Namesake River
Another Version of an Ocean
Pericles, Prince of Tyre: A Commentary
Notes from Ariadne at Sea
Odysseus Becalmed
Narcissus on Echo Beach
Loved
Self-Portrait Surviving Spring
West Willow
Acknowledgments