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Tuesday Night at the Savoy Ballroom 7
Waiting for a Tree Through a Window 34
The Life & Times of Billy Boy 35
Recital of Water Over Stones 36
When Men Can’t Trust Hands with Wood 38
Sagittarius Approaching Thirty-Five 42
Dedications & Other Darkhorses
Returning the Borrowed Road 47
Looking a Mad Dog Dead in the Eyes 57
Sitting in a Rocking Chair, Going Blind 59
Nothing to Do with Janice Drake 68
A Poet Whose Photo Never Grows Old 73
For You, Sweetheart, I’ll Sell Plutonium Reactors 80
Soliloquy: Man Talking to a Mirror 87
Instructions for Building Straw Huts 99
An Exchange Student Awaits the Arrival of an African Princess 99
Captain Diable’s Receptionist 117
Epilogue to the Opera of Dead on Arrival 119
Blues Chant Hoodoo Revival 122
I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head
Unnatural State of the Unicorn 139
The Thorn Merchant’s Right-Hand Man 145
After the Heart’s Interrogation 146
Happy-Go-Lucky’s Wolf Skull Dream Mask 146
The Heart’s Graveyard Shift 147
Boy Wearing a Dead Man’s Clothes 149
The Thorn Merchant’s Mistress 155
Audacity of the Lower Gods 161
Jonestown: More Eyes for Jadwiga’s Dream 172
Landscape for the Disappeared 172
In the Labor Camp of Good Intentions 174
Making Out with the Dream-Shredding Machine 176
In the Background of Silence 176
Born Pretty in a Poor Country 178
“Everybody’s Reading Li Po” Silkscreened on a Purple T-Shirt 179
Too Pretty for Serious Business 182
Raw Data for an Unfinished Questionnaire 183
The Beast & Burden: Seven Improvisations 184
A Greenness Taller Than Gods 196
“You and I Are Disappearing” 200
2527th Birthday of the Buddha 201
Report from the Skull’s Diorama 223
The Man Who Carries the Desert Around Inside Himself: For Wally 240
Protection of Moveable Cultural Heritage 249
Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel 252
Halloween, the Late Fifties 290
Knights of the White Camellia & Deacons of Defense 302
Little Man Around the House 332
Out There There Be Dragons 344
Report from the Lucky Country 376
