Contents
1 Conversation with Water
3 Fish Multiplication
4 Iced Tea
5 The Next Generation
6 Amaranthine at the Antique Car Show
8 Chow-Chow
10 The Christmas Grandparents Warned Was Coming
11 Damocles
12 Death and Life
13 Evening Dressing
14 Of Beauty
15 Mountain Doggerel
16 Cricket Eater
17 Sincerity
18 Legends
20 Of Night and Flesh
21 Saudade for the Dance Floor
22 Piñata Heart
23 Power Surge: Ode de Menopause
24 Those Lingering at the Top of the Bridge
25 Evolution of a Poet
27 What I Really Want to Say
to the Difficult Person at the Cocktail Party
29 Perigee
30 Shine Shine Shine
31 What to Ask
33 Le Pont Julien
34 Washita River
36 Rush
37 Ode to a Willow
38 Danuvius, Danu Nazdya
40 River Masons
41 Hatchet
42 Rising Above
43 Dreamer XXX
44 White Anniversary
46 Animism
47 For the Man of War
48 America
50 Louisville Turnaround
52 Of Travel and Snow
54 Contemplating Mortality Among the Serenity of Duck Butts
55 In the Townhouse Near the Tracks
56 Aha Macave
57 Dandelions
58 Key West
61 Sedna
63 Turbulence & Fluids
64 Aging Matrix
66 Plimsoll Line
67 Confessions, Overheard
68 Holy Jesus Miracle Temple Ribs
70 Our Lady of Fatima
72 In his final hours
73 Mars at 38,000 Feet
74 Christmas Comet
76 Echelon Sleeping
78 Words to a Younger Self
80 Nothing Less
81 Bocca di Lupo
82 Smoking Venus
83 About the Author