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Fever 24
Little Man Around the House 27
Songs for My Father 28
from Dedications & Other Darkhorses
The Tongue Is 37
Chair Gallows 38
Translating Footsteps 39
from Lost in the Bonewheel Factory
Looking a Mad Dog Dead in the Eyes 43
1938 44
Stepfather: A Girl’s Song 45
Apprenticeship 46
Light on the Subject 47
Beg Song 48
Passions 49
The Dog Act 51
For You, Sweetheart, I’ll Sell Plutonium Reactors 52
The Nazi Doll 53
Corrigenda 54
False Leads 57
Soliloquy: Man Talking to a Mirror 58
The Way the Cards Fall 59
Annabelle 60
Faith Healer 61
More Girl Than Boy 62
April Fools’ Day 63
Untitled Blues 64
Back Then 65
Blasphemy 66
Safe Subjects 67
Black String of Days 69
Villon / Leadbelly 70
Elegy for Thelonious 71
Copacetic Mingus 72
Letter to Bob Kaufman 73
Woman, I Got the Blues 74
Newport Beach, 1979 75
Gloria’s Clues 76
Charmed 77
The Cage Walker 78
Addendum 79
Epilogue to the Opera of Dead on Arrival 80
Blues Chant Hoodoo Revival 81
from I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head
Unnatural State of the Unicorn 87
Touch-up Man 88
How I See Things 89
The Thorn Merchant 90
The Thorn Merchant’s Right-Hand Man 91
The Heart’s Graveyard Shift 92
Boy Wearing a Dead Man’s Clothes 94
The Music That Hurts 96
When in Rome—Apologia 97
The Thorn Merchant’s Wife 99
The Thorn Merchant’s Mistress 100
After Summer Fell Apart 102
The Brain to the Heart 104
Audacity of the Lower Gods 105
The Falling-Down Song 106
The Thorn Merchant’s Son 107
I Apologize 108
1984 109
Dreambook Bestiary 113
Jonestown: More Eyes for Jadwiga’s Dream 115
Landscape for the Disappeared 116
Good Joe 118
In the Background of Silence 120
For the Walking Dead 121
Child’s Play 122
The Beast & Burden: Seven Improvisations 123
Ambush 129
Monsoon Season 130
Water Buffalo 131
Le Xuan, Beautiful Spring 132
Please 133
Camouflaging the Chimera 137
Tunnels 138
Starlight Scope Myopia 139
Hanoi Hannah 141
“You and I Are Disappearing” 142
Re-creating the Scene 143
We Never Know 145
A Break from the Bush 146
Tu Do Street 147
Communiqué 148
Prisoners 150
Jungle Surrender 152
Thanks 154
To Have Danced with Death 155
Report from the Skull’s Diorama 156
Boat People 157
Missing in Action 158
Facing It 159
The Plea 163
The Man Who Carries the Desert Around Inside Himself: For Wally 165
Rocks Push 167
When Loneliness Is A Man 169
A Quality of Light 170
Gerry’s Jazz 171
Boxing Day 173
Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage 175
Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel 176
February in Sydney 178
