Contents
1.
The Body Wars
2.
Stormday
Crushing It
Gunlover
Drunken Trees
On the Anniversary of Charlottesville
Double-Cut
At Carluccio’s, County Dublin, Dawson Street
Felon
Armament
The Pelicans
The Fire Roads
3.
Coastal Starlite
How I Became a Gunslinger
Speedballing
Something Real and Free
Trumpcare
Chocolate Mescaline
Not Homeless, Just Moving
Borderlands, for Bobby
Yellow Sky
For the Man Who Died on the Tracks
4.
Containment
Landing Strip—Sierra Nevada
Train-Jumper
Field
At Moe’s
Outpost on Wicklow Street
Driver: Fulton Street to North Beach
In the Castro
Kat Calls about Jesus
She Was West
5.
Beautiful, Overused in Muir Woods
It’s Raining in Paterson
She only tried a little, unwound the coat hanger and put it inside her
My Father Disappears into Flowers
Hot in the Striped Boy’s Heart
On the 101
Leaving Sioux City
Kat Talks the War Inside Her
The Saddest Song
In the Lowfields
West Texas Love Poem
Notes
Acknowledgments