Table of Contents
I
I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson's Boyfriend 13
Parkviewl-9426 14
The Wasp Woman 15
Death's Hankies 16
Mermaids 17
Girl Talk 18
Lover's Lane 19
Law & Order 20
The Search Party 21
Bears from Space 22
Mannequin 23
Noir ABCs 24
Dear Mr. K 25
Mickey 26
After the Funeral 27
II
The Sun Is Worried 31
Listen, I'm Serious 32
Red Redux 33
Silk 34
Where I Live Now 36
"Notes, Letters and Billet-Doux Will Soon be a Thing of the Past." 37
Double Vision 38
Last night 39
The Afterlife 40
Jane Austen at the Mail 41
I Like to Kiss 41
From The Secret Diaries of Mary Wolhtonecraft Shelley 43
"Can You Tell Us a Little About Your Wife?" 44
All the News 45
III
"The Only Violin in Eden" 49
Orpheus Hearts Eurydice 50
Reception to Follow 51
Waiting for the Library to Open 52
My Grandma Took the Train to Minneapolis 53
Tonight 54
Men at Work 55
Sodom 56
Yahweh Barbie 57
They Came, Took the Books Away, and Left New Guidelines for School Visits 58
The Cat Who Doesn't Like Anybody But My Wife Lolls in Ezra Pound's Lap 59
A Crash Test Dummy Tells All 60
Pal the Pony 61
The Dixie Diner 62
IV
The Bride of Frankenstein 65
Piece Work from the Garment Factory 66
Aphrodite to Ares 67
The Getaway Race 68
"The uneasy trance will never break." 69
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 70
"The husband has a husband, the wife has a wife" 71
King Kong Talks about His Childhood 72
It's After Dinner 72
Rapunzel at Eleven 74
I Spake as a Child 75
The Creature 76
Household Gods 77
My Friends and I Wanted to be Movie Stars 78
Message from Another Planet 79
The Natural World 80
Things and How They Work 81