Contents
Writing Sonnets
Blue Light
Come Ye Back
Spring 2007 Evocations
Editing Shakespeare
Night of the Hunter
September 11, 2001
Three-Man Weave
Ivalea
Ivalea II
The Engineer’s Proposal
“A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ”
Light My Fire
Ice Cube
When Love Was a Fudgesicle
Life as a Dreamsicle
She
The Trouble with Clear Weather
Spirits Burning Bright
Portrait
The Dance
Alone Together
Mining
My Long Love Affair with Ketchup
Cheddar Cheese
Last Night
Omen
The Creek
Nanoman
Heart Exam
Loving to Watch Your Voice
We and the Amoeba
Post-Human
Osteoporosis
Placenta
Brief Visit
Dinner at Diane’s
Our Night, Our Age
Yellow Irises
Crape Myrtles
Root Canal
Summer
So You Want to Love a Poet
Tattoo Regret?
Tantric Sex?
Second Life
Lucas and Barney
The Island
Two Murders and a Suicide About to Happen
Virtual Immortality
Mite Harvestman
The Romance of Amber
Kush
Grape Clusters
Viewing a Photosynthetic Photo
Flight of the Bees
The Lark Descending
The Last Place
Strumpets
Sniper Prodigy
The Armchair Assassin
The Armchair Assassin II
The Armchair Assassin III
The Armchair Assassin IV
The Armchair Assassin V
The Armchair Assassin VI
The Armchair Assassin VII
The Armchair Assassin VIII—Upheaval Dome
The Armchair Assassin IX
The Armchair Assassin X
The Armchair Assassin XI
The Armchair Assassin XII
Waterboarding Cats
The Aesthetic Astronaut
The Aesthetic Astronaut II
The Aesthetic Astronaut III
The Aesthetic Astronaut IV
The Aesthetic Astronaut V
99 Confirmed in 2006
My Government-Censored Sonnet
The Phone Conversation
Homeless
A Short History of the CIA
Free Tibet
Homeless II
We Say Goodbye to the Dying
Birth of a Supernova
Mother Star
Prayer
George Tribou
Bill Clark
Cash’s Last Call
Warrior Bringing Peace
George Orwell
Gerald Stern
Hitler
Hypatia
I’ve Seen Great Men from a Distance
James Meredith
Jefferson and the Declaration
John Gould Fletcher
Joseph
Max Perkins
Modigliani
Padre Pio
Sylvia and Ted
Swan
Tesla
The Frost Place
The Impressionist
Archangel Gabriel and I
Jung and I
Hayden and I
Picasso and I
The U.S. Supreme Court and I
William James and I
Foxglove
Carolina
Razglednicas
Subway Strike
The Holiest Light
Logic
Index of Poem Titles