Table of Contents
1.
The Body Wars 5
2.
Stormday 9
Crushing It 11
Gunlover 12
Drunken Trees 14
On the Anniversary of Charlottesville 16
Double-Cut 17
At Carluccio's, County Dublin, Dawson Street IS Felon 20
Armament 22
The Pelicans 24
The Fire Roads 26
3.
Coastal Starlite 31
How I Became a Gunslinger 33
Speedballing 35
Something Real and Free 37
Trumpcare 38
Chocolate Mescaline 39
Not Homeless, Just Moving 40
Borderlands, for Bobby 41
Yellow Sky 44
For the Man Who Died on the Tracks 45
4.
Containment 49
Landing Strip-Sierra Nevada 50
Train-Jumper 52
Field 53
At Moe's 54
Outpost on Wicklow Street 55
Driver: Fulton Street to North Beach 57
In the Castro 58
Kat Calls about Jesus 59
She Was West 61
5.
Beautiful, Overused in Muir Woods 67
It's Raining in Paterson 70
She only tried a little, unwound the coat hanger and put it inside her 71
My Father Disappears into Flowers 72
Hot in the Striped Boy's Heart 73
On the 101 74
Leaving Sioux City 77
Kat Talks the War Inside Her 79
The Saddest Song 80
In the Lowfields 81
West Texas Love Poem 84
Notes 85
Acknowledgments 87