Contents
New Poems
1.
Inside the Cardinal
Stricken
The Kindness
The Secret Book and Record Store
Asylum
Abortion with Gun Barrel
The World between Jim Morrison’s Legs
Low-Rider
Lake is a red pigment
She Set Me Swimming
Dropping Blotter Acid at the Slag Dump
2.
Praise Blue
Surfing Cowboys
The Snapping
The Boy from Hazard
Blue Rider
An eater, or swallowhole, is a reach of stream
Against Suicide
Taking Off, I Talk to the Dead
Wedding Shoes
I Knew I Wasn’t Poor
Muscle Beach, Venice, 2013
from Mad River
If This Is Sex, It Must Be Tuesday
Mad River
The Rolling Rock Man
Pittsburgh Poem
Ravenous Blue
Highway 99
Letter to Mario
An Abortion Attempt by my Mother
Sucking
Saving the Crippled Boy
after sex on a train
A Waitress’ Instructions on Tipping or Get the Cash Up and Don’t Waste My Time
from Boneshaker
Machine Shop of Love
Penitentiary
My Mother and Aunt Charlotte Talk Disasters at Schmotzer’s Village Bakery
Going Deep for Jesus
Poetry Workshop at the Homeless Shelter
My Father Teaches Me Desire
Near the Foundling Home
My Father Teaches Me to Dream
Boneshaker
My Father Teaches Me Light
Zen of Tipping
Cruising the Blue Belt
from Red Sugar
I Saw One of Blake’s Angels
Lip
Shooter
Red Sugar
The Phenomenology of Sex
When Foucault Entered the Body
The Day I Stripped
Red Song
Serum
A Necessary Waist: Plath Grows Thinner Reading Stein
Dreaming Door
The Punch
Love Poem w/Strat
Daughter of Blue Lake
from the Switching/Yard
Visitation at Gogama
California Corridor
My Mother Was a Dress
Sister as Moving Object
Three Faces and All These Fallen Gods
Delicious
Top-10 List
Youngest Known Savior
Reading Wanda Coleman on the California Zephyr
The Switching/Yard
The Hit Man
Ghostdaddys
Dear American Poetry
Drinking the Lizard King
Notes on a Nevada Flood
Notes
Acknowledgments