Table of Contents
Mojo Songs (New Poems)
A World of Daughters 3
Our Side of the Creek 5
Slingshot 7
A Prayer for Workers 9
The Candlelight Lounge 12
Shelter 14
The Mushroom Gatherers 16
After the Burn Pits 18
The Mountain 20
Dead Reckoning III 22
The Soul's Soundtrack 23
The Body Remembers 26
From Talking Dirty to the Gods
Homo Erectus 31
Utetheisa Ornatrix, The First Goddess 32
Night Ritual 33
Lime 34
Ode to the Maggot 35
Slime Molds 36
Sloth 37
Nipples 38
Scapegoat 39
Venus of Willendorf 40
Slaves Among Blades of Grass 41
A Portrait of (Self) Deception 42
Sex Toys 43
Meditations on a Thumbscrew 44
Bedazzled 45
The Congo Snake 46
The Lure 47
Infidelity 48
Ukiyo-E 49
Amber 50
Ode to Dust 51
Body of a Woman (Cadavere Di Donna) 52
Remus & Romulus 53
Pan 54
Epithalamium 55
The Business of Angels 56
Eros 57
May 58
Lust 59
When Dusk Weighs Daybreak 60
Shiva 61
A Small System 62
Homunculus 63
Ecstatic 64
Speed Ball 65
A Famous Ghost 66
Avarice 67
Rollerblades 68
Monkey Wrench 69
Meditations on a File 70
The God of Land Mines 71
Curator of Kosinski's Mask 72
Postscript to a Summer Night 73
September 74
Curanderismo 75
The Polecat 76
Crow Lingo 77
The Devil's Workshop 78
Mud 79
Euphony 80
From Taboo
Lingo 83
Imhotep 86
Bacchanal 88
Nude Study 90
At the Red Sea 92
Troubling the Water 95
Lingua Franca 98
Desecration 100
Love in the Time of War 105
From Warhorses
The Helmet 133
Grenade 134
The Towers 135
Heavy Metal Soliloquy 136
The Warlord's Garden 137
Surge 139
The Devil Comes on Horseback 140
From "Autobiography of My Alter Ego" 141
From The Chameleon Couch
Canticle 147
The Janus Preface 148
Ignis Fatuus 149
A Translation of Silk 151
Dead Reckoning 152
Cape Coast Castle 153
Black Figs 156
Fata Morgana 157
English 159
Poppies 161
Orpheus at the Second Gate of Hades 163
Three Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion 165
A Visit to Inner Sanctum 167
Unlikely Claims 169
When Eyes are on Me 171
Begotten 173
Blue Dementia 175
Grunge 177
Green 178
The Hedonist 180
How It Is 182
A Voice on an Answering Machine 184
Togetherness 185
Dear Mister Decoy 187
Ontology & Guinness 189
From The Emperor of Water Clocks
The Land of Cockaigne 193
The Water Clock 194
The Emperor 195
The Fool 197
The King's Salt 199
Turner's Great Tussle with Water 201
Skulking Across Snow 202
Sprung Rhythm of a Landscape 203
Rock Me, Mercy 205
Islands 206
Latitudes 209
The Relic 211
Et Tu, Brute? 213
The Gold Pistol 215
The Circus 216
Minotaur 218
Torsion 219
Fortress 222
Longitudes 224
Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova 226
Michio Ito's Fox & Hawk 228
Caffe Reggio 230
Krar 231
Dead Reckoning II 232
A Night in Tunisia 233
The Green Horse 234
Ode to the Oud 236
Envoy to Palestine 237
Timbuktu 239
Ghazal, After Ferguson 240
Interrogation 242
Precious Metals 244
A Prayer 245
The Work of Orpheus 246
Empyrean Isles 247
From Requiem 251
Acknowledgments 259
Index of Titles and First Lines 261
