Table of Contents
CONTENTS When I was Little......................................................................1 POEMS....................................................................................19 Priceless....................................................................................21 Bedouin ....................................................................................25 My Mulatto Onion..................................................................26 Occasion ..................................................................................27 Where I’m Going with This Poem.......................................28 In the Sweat Lodge.................................................................29 Here lies Ginger, full of Grace..............................................33 One Day...................................................................................35 The Last Apples Bought ........................................................36 Going to Tel Aviv...................................................................39 Grocery Store ..........................................................................41 Women are the Water ............................................................43 My Mount Pleasant Porch .....................................................45 Zeus..........................................................................................49 Bicycle Ride .............................................................................51 At 11:15 pm in Harris Teeter on East Bay Street ...............53 Emblem of Wishful Thinking ...............................................56 This Dress................................................................................57 How to Figure Out if the New Guy is a Man, or Some Weird Hybrid...........................................................................60 Missteps....................................................................................61 Governors Cup Fishing with Paula ......................................65 Southern Man’s Zen...............................................................67 Shade ........................................................................................68 Many Worlds, One Sun..........................................................71 Knot .........................................................................................74 Small Poem About Texas ......................................................79 Falling off the Edge of the World ........................................83 You Can Pack A Lot into Some Days .................................85 Woman Met at the Philadelphia Airport with Family Waiting .....................................................................................89 Physics: Everything in this World.........................................91 We’re the sort you don’t want...............................................93 The Head, the Heart, and the Body .....................................94 Marvella of West Baltimore, She Says..................................95 Yet...........................................................................................100 Find Some Things to Love..................................................103
