New poems. I. Hoots and howling II. I am your lifeguard Making animal sounds on the phone Dust Barrel house Crash course Shorn Salt lick Country burial What terms Vermont noir Black shoes Parched peanuts Prima facie In the stronghold Broadside Green waves Text me a river Werewolf Apollo Dog eared seeds My Dillinger Note from the night orderly Ghost headlines Rock solid Doing laundry in Key West Dog paddle I like to think I'm close Not too far Temple Mount Excuses of the wind Fry bread Pater nostra Ponds frozen all the way to the bottom Delivery III. By design IV. Words No clear purpose Himmler Slops Story of the hero Too fine a point Faces cycling through unrectified expressions as they pass Piecemeal Roman songs Massey Show Road There ought to be Roma duro 1 Jupiter Or was that too a dream Bears at twilight Damascus

Selected Poems. from Red Roads. Dr. Auchincloss bids good-bye to his wife

Liar

from Indistinguishable From the Darkness. The meaning of birds

from The Palms. This holy enterprise

The palms

Redneck Riviera

Mother at eighty

The rose

from Before and After. Ruffians

There is no railroad named Delight

Anticipation

from Heroin and Other Poems. Heroin

Real time

Louisiana Purchase

The world as will and representation

Los dos rancheros

Honesty

Beautyworks

Mute

As for trees

The trail

Zen do

Moon, moon

Visitation

Bontemps

Santa Monica

East End

from Women of America. Eastern forests

What this stands for

Women of America

In July

Shame

Compared to what

Modern art

Old business

Talking to whom

Each night I enter a terrible silence

The night won't stop it

Dusk at Homer's

Old nobodies traveling alone

The wilderness

from Word Comix. I speak to fewer people

Evasive action

Abuses in the big hotels

Evergreens

Hollyhocks

Like Odysseus, like Achilles

Little swan songs being sung all down the block

Illustrated guide to familiar American trees

Out of the way bungalow-style areas

Lariats

Oh yeah

Meaty chunks

Leaves in the subway

Extremadura

Pied noir

The Greeks

Clean

from Jump Soul. Jump soul

Who knows if that would work

Why we're here

Shakespeare in the villages

The plot is the one thing we know

Collected first lines

Just a note

Little Georgias

Used to be more one-eyed men

It gets a little hazy

Night squishes the sun out along the treeline

The river

Whom mothers steer their children from

Spell

Red cotton

Delirious

Taps in Key West

Supposition

Bus to Tuxtla

Offhand

from Demo. Here, dog

This water tastes of iron

Why harp on it

Crostatas

This right here

Samsara

Lacquered dead

(Adirondack)

Volto

Wilderness

From Heine

One spell

The casing

No nonsense

Ithika

Backseat in Kinshasa

No claim

Issues with a right-hand turn

The far'll do

Stroke

Bolt upright

Belfast

Counting on my fingers

Minor fabrications

Unattainable goodness

One

The players

Picture of the situation

By mechanical means.