Table of Contents
Afternoon of an Autumn Autonomy 15
The Origin of Language 16
Hippopotamus 18
Radical Tapioca 20
Waggle Dance 22
The Sentence as a Form of Crochet 25
Hot Butter in an Embarrassed World 27
Why I Write 29
The Squirrel that ate Cincinnatti 31
What Years on Planet Earth Have Taught Me 32
A Shadow Climbing a Cornstalk 33
A Happy Disorder 35
Halibut Today with a Chance of Bubbles 36
Season of a Dream 38
The Sunlight of the Mind 40
Resort 41
Saga of the Sugar Ants 43
The Birthday Jump 45
Invocation 46
Confessions of an Impersonal Spectator 48
Our Books of Poetry 50
The Lonely Gaze of Men in Nightclubs 51
The Study of Oak 52
A Sweet Preparation 54
These Words 56
The Dividends of Desire 57
My Secret Valet 59
I Don't Believe in Water 60
The Urge to Create 62
Impatience 65
The Legend of the Garden Hose 67
The Mind is Indigo 68
Action Inaction 69
Holding Pattern 72
Air Loom 73
The Athletic Emotion of Bark 75
Between Hotels 77
Whose Dwelling is the Light of the Setting Sun 79
Bench Press 81
Heraclitus in an Inner Tube 83
Balzac's Alligator 86
Word Surf 88
Pychogorean Toolbox Teats 90
The Tongue is a Strange Machine 92
Umwelt in a Bath Towel 94
Blatant Taffeta 96
Each and Every Way 98
A Summoning 103
The Sorcery of Glass in an Age of Pharmaceuticals 105
Sock 107
Crawl Convocation 109
For the Record 111
Souvenir 113
Takeoff 115
Concertina 116
Tombstone 117
Let Me Tell You a Story 119
Liquidity 121
Harmonic Distortion 123
Self-Portrait in a Convex Gob 124
The Parrots are Monumental on the rue d'Orsel 126
Like a Fur-Covered Teacup 128
John Ruskin doing a Swan Dive 129
Feeling a Feeling 130
Writing a la Pollock 132
My Favorite Emotion 134
Exploration is for Feathers 136
Mont Blanc Redux 138
Hollywood Sugar 139
The Ears of the Cricket 141
Herky-Jerky Stationary 143
Dance of the Bamboo Nipples 145
Thwack Plaque 147
The Book of Fog 149
How I Spend my Day 151
Plinkety-Plunk 153
Accessorize Your Eyes 155
Cells 157
Ziuhitsu 159
Fats 161
The Ghost of an Adjective 162
What Happens when Words Leave our Heads 164
Speaking in Bubbles 165
My Trip to Pluto 166
Tarzan on Mars 168
Big Plans 170
The Glamour of Reproduction 171
Philosophy Toast 173
Fable 175
The House of Estuary 176
Let the Accordion Squeeze Itself 178
The Long Emotions of Gray 180
Smart and Black and Full of Birds 181
Words in Search of a Shape 182
And What 184
Going All Gonad 187
Ripe Purple 189
A Brief History of Indigo 192
Unanticipated Consequences 194
Abstract Machine 196
Infinity's Orchid 199
Buffalo Wrinkles 202
The Stepladder Confesses its Clatter 203
Baked in Indigo 205
Dark Matter 208
Liftoff at the Court of Versailles 210
The Painter 212
Marmalade 214
Root Beer 216
Life on other Planets 218
Buffalo Bill in the Holy Land 220
Buffalo Bill and the Giant Eyeball 221
Dinner at the Hotel Universe 222
The Package 224
Heartbeats and Scars 226
The Glockenspiel 228
Herds of Diamond Centipede 230
Things Excite Me 233
Brief to the Noösphere 235
Anodyne 237
How to Read a River 239
President Taft Presses a Telegraph Key 241
Tendencies to Exist 243
The Color 245
Black Heat 247
Bright Blue Slaps of Sloppy Convection 248
Going on Account 250
What Really Matters 252
Blossoms of Ermine Mosquito 253
Tractatus Tarantella 254
Goofy 256
Enfoldings 258
Charge 259
Let us Query the Boiling Sun 260
Barracuda 262
Phantom Sensations 263
The Shine of Eternity in a Postcard Rack 265
No Complaint 267
Confessions of a Closet Hoarder 268
Mark Twain's Typewriter 270
Jukebox Genesis 271
Tantamount to Mauve 272
Ready to Surface in all Respects 274
Romper 276
Parable of the Parabola 278
My African Ear 279
The Adventures of Drupka Kunley 281
Kierkegaard at Home Depot 283
Eight Pounds of Feeling 286
Geode 288
Like Exiles in a Testicle Museum 289
Recent Findings 290
Shaken Shape of Midnight 292
No Excuse 294
Swans on a Squeezed Accordion 297
The Birch Doctrine 298
A Letter from Arthur Rimbaud 301
Dream of Distant Suns 303
Here it isn't 306
Ontology Part One 308
Ontology Part Two 310
Ontology Part Three 313
Ontology Part Four 316
Ontology Part Five 319
Ontology Part Six 322
Ontology Part Seven 326
Violet 330
Further Proof that the Universe is Yarn 332
Sublime and Odd is Mutable 334
Death is Fondled like a Gun 335
Allen Ginsberg Phones me from the Dead 337
Braque Afternoon 340
Rivers I Have Known 342
It All Comes Down to Rain 344
They Say Truth Lies There 348
The Occurrence of Sadness and Glass 352
Before the Ship Leaves 354
The Shape of Yearning 356
The Beautiful Weather of Gerunds 357
Breath and Shadow 359
Ha Ha Ha Ha 360
Nocturnal Bypass 362
A Proposition 363
A Little Load of Paint 364
Rumination 365
Wind Bag 366
Strolling is Trolling 368
A Tragic Vegetable 372
Blood 375
Box Set 377
The Push-Up Ranch 379
Metamorphosis Revisited 380
Cathedral of Air 381
Diversification 382
Dada Budapest 384
The Probabilities of Gray 386
Day of the Prune 388
