Table of Contents
Kevin from Heaven 1
My Pea Coat 2
On Overland 4
Confession 6
Rabbit Hole 8
On Vacation from the Death Camp 10
Guardian Angels 11
Politics and the News 12
Remnant 14
Proustian 16
The Movie of Her Life 18
Pink and Black 22
Drunk Dream 23
Hidden 24
In the late fifties, 25
Anyta 26
In the Midst of Grief 28
First Death in Sierra Madre 29
Palinode 32
Why, today, do I think of Mary, 36
Ray Donovan 37
Not Just in Memory 39
Opal 41
Winona Ryder 44
Freewrite after Breathing, Last Class, 12/11/18 45
"The Happiest Place on Earth" 46
Last Poem 48
David Trinidads 50
Memoir 52
Joanne Kyger 55
"Ordinary Time" 58
1968 61
Digging to Wonderland 63
That Was Allen 65
Mystery House Magnet 69
My Mother's Love Letters 73
An Attempt at Exhausting a Neighborhood in Chatsworth, California 78
Coda: "Twinkly Lights" 107
Bobby 108
Harlen 117
Mart Crowley 121
My Comic Book Collection 124
Brothers Five 131
Grace 133