Table of Contents
Foreword V. B. Price xi
New Poems
New Corn Dance 3
El Paso Poem 4
Ramon's 5
Dead Coyote 6
Beyond Bosque 7
To the Stone Hunters 8
For Hart Crane 9
Coyote at Fabens 10
Before Mesa 11
The Buffalo Figurine 12
Old Crow 13
Yandell's Room 14
Barry Mills 15
Leaves 16
Cuchillo 17
Easter 18
Raven/Taos 19
East of Albuquerque 20
Juarez-Again 21
La Feria 22
Eastside's Calvario 23
Coal Trane 24
Gersh Driver 25
A Bosque Hanging 27
Preparing for Maximus 31
Gambler's Blend 32
Gambler's Guitar 33
Outing Vegas 34
Larks 35
'48 Plymouth 36
1959 37
When the Pogues Came to Town 38
South Central Serenade 39
Angel Dust 40
East Hollywood Hotdog Stand 41
One for Prez 42
Blue's Beach 43
The King of Mountain Soul 44
St. Mullin's 45
Feed the Messenger as Well 46
For Longshot O'Leary 47
After the Great Hunger 48
New Irish Whiskey 51
The Death of Coolaholiga 52
Coolaholiga Rising 54
Begging for Vultures 56
The Birds are Flying Over 58
From Skull Highway (2008)
New Medicine Stick 63
Adobe 64
Fallen Ladders 65
Paper Lantern 66
Gone Rattler 67
Swift Horse: A Blessing 68
Norton Flats 69
Milagros 70
Skull Highway 71
The Eve 72
Reverb Machines 73
The Dancing Stranglers 74
New Year's Eve, 1978 75
Culver's End 76
Troubadour West 77
Kiva Bones 78
Penitente Morada de Taos 79
A Light 80
For Robert Peters 84
The Crucifix Upstairs 85
Abandoned Morada, 1990 86
In the Desert Dead Things Go Away Quickly 87
From Walking Backwards to Santa Fe (2007)
Anniversary of Another Life 91
On the 15th Anniversary of My Father's Death 92
Hickory Wind 94
The Shadows of St. Francis 95
Mine Tours 96
The Elbo Room/Guadalupe 97
El Pantalón Rosa 98
Elegy John Wieners 99
Been Sleeping in the Desert 100
Lost San Elizario 101
Westwood Walk 102
J. Geils in Inglewood 103
Bunny Berrigan Loses His Chops 104
Santa Fe: 2001 105
Montez de Santa Fe 106
For My Daughter 107
Letting Go 108
From Believing in Bonfires (2003)
Butterfly Girl 111
El Paso Saddleblanket Company 112
Memo to Kell 113
Corner 114
Bowen's 115
Desert Rats 116
New Irish Harmonica 117
The Doolin Drag 119
First Mescaline: Inglewood '77 120
South Central Serenade: 7 121
When We Were Kings 122
Quarter Moon Quartet 124
Wolf and Skull 125
Playland 126
Dawn 127
Mexican Canyon Trestle 128
Flying Burrito #1 129
Believing in Bonfires 130
From New Shouts at Broken Dreams (2001)
Mr. Mileage 133
Sweet Medicine 134
Desert Coyote 135
The Queen of Odessa 136
La Calavera 137
From a Buick 6-Revisited 139
Nowhere Train 140
Cockfighter 141
Fading the White Line 142
Juarez Wild Card 143
Myth 144
The Final Night 145
Stalled Avenue 146
Dealer's Choice 147
The Balinese 148
Surf '96 150
Encinitas 151
Newport Line 152
From Rusted Steel and Bordertown Starts (1999)
Airstream 155
El Paso the Hard Way 156
Back Door Poets 157
Desert Variation 158
When ZZ Came to Town 159
Drover 160
Peasant Hands Everywhere 161
Maybe 162
Gasoline Row 163
Ghost of El Paso 164
Outside Gallup 165
Crazy Horse 166
Border Patrols 167
Candy 168
E.P.T. 169
Gold on the Wire 170
The Canonization of Freddy Fender 171
Sleepwalkers 172
On the Death of Townes Van Zandt 173
Fast Eddie 174
Greatest Hits: Ray Price and His Cherokee Cowboys 175
Night of the Iguana 176
Two Step the Night 177
Fuels 177
The Salsa of Today 179
The Red Road 180
Rusted Steel and Bordertown Starts 181
From Lenny Bruce in El Paso (1997)
Outlaw X 185
Road Dogs 186
Ink 187
Lenny Bruce in El Paso 188
Lefty and Me 189
The Girls of the Wrecking Yard 191
The Ghosts of San Juan 191
About the Author 195
Acknowledgments 197
