Table of Contents
Arena
Desero 3
Son of a Jar 4
A Partial History 5
Silicosis 12
Haboob 13
Solstice Poem 14
Attar 15
Legend 16
Arena 19
Venice 22
Downtown Standard 23
Glasgow 24
Tenth Body 26
Mistral 28
To the Reader 29
Twelfth Night 35
A Partial History of Iridescence
Dream House 53
Without a Word 57
Sandra 58
Not the Birds 60
I Averted My Eyes from the Rock 61
Magazine Feminism 63
I Can't Give You Anything but Love 67
Bohemian Rhapsody 69
Ramayana 74
Something Inside Me 77
A Valediction Forbidding Mourning 81
Gizzard
11/22 95
Mecum Mea Sunt Cuncta 96
Contender 98
Another Dream 99
It Would Be a Smoothness a Jesus 100
Maintaining Intactness of the Silly 101
The End of Me 102
I Had an Idea of Symmetry 103
Boomers 106
The Real Way Things Need to Go 109
I Was Running 110
Old MacDonald Had a Farm 112
Dead Symbolists 114
Schisandra 116
Distinguished Sentiments 118
No Child Left Behind 122
Gizzard 124
Safeway
Running Nymph 129
Who Here Understands English 131
Beauty 133
Skull&Bones 135
In Bloom 138
Emergency Room 141
Try Not to Disturb the Live Palms 143
Wasting Away in This Vanilla Darkness 145
Céleur 147
No Words 148
Night Is Falling 151
Hunted by a Single Thought 152
Queens 153
Joseph's Dream 155
Women Seem Like a Labor 156
This Is the Song of One Hundred 157
Equimo 158
The Shot Heard Round the World 159
Report 160
You Know What Comes Next 161
The Song with the Refrain Like Animals 164
Misuse of Gifts 165
Days of Our Lives 166
Chaps 167
Enlightened Despotism 170
Beef Bacon Chicken and Nuts 172
Participles of Deserere 174
Armorica 179
Thursday 199
The Saddest Year of My Life
Confessional Poem 223
The Saddest Year of My Life 224
Cucurrucucú Paloma 230
To Live in a Jewel Was Bliss 231
Inner Life 232
Hegeling Before the Glass 233
He Smelled Androgenic 234
Chinook 236
Saint John Passion 238
Me Too 239
Mom Jeans 243
The Chlorophyll in Her Water Matches 244
Diary 248
Doubt 249
Wellfleet 250
Tiffany's Poems
Sic 263
"I have to get it all down Tiffany" 264
Dream 265
Scrambled Eggs 266
She Held 269
Tiffany Made Me 270
Lambada Literary Award 271
The Thought "The Greatest City in the World" 272
It Looks Beautiful and I Can't Understand It Said God 273
All Dead 274
The Stores Are Full 275
If These Poems Were Tiffany's 276
She 277
25 August 278
Unanswered Question 279
How Come 280
The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor 281
Nine Moons 288
Nine Neoclassical Poems
Alcibiades 294
Like Two Empty Wallets My Boobs 295
Crystal Geyser 296
Prometheus or Something 298
I'd Like 299
Ditch Face 301
Rigid Frigid Be With Me Saint Brigid 303
And When I Awoke Nothingness 304
The War on April 305
Rotisserie 310
Bitch of the World 312
I Know from Experience If the Difficult Poem 313
Folk Song 315
On the Night of Tiffany's Thirtieth Birthday 317
Tikkun Olam 319
If I Won It Then I Won It Only 320
I Got Used 321
All I Have to Do 323
Still Groaning Under All She Owed 325
Nine Neoclassical Poems 326
Fkn Ziggurats
Fkn Ziggurats 333
It Is a Suckling Love 334
Democracy Now 335
Rapes Eons Fisheries 336
Your Poem 337
I Can't Eat You Can't Sleep 338
Who Aren't We 339
Pilgrims' Progress 340
Open Fifths 343
Mosaic 357
Acknowledgments 399