Table of Contents
People Believing Badly 3
Tempesta: Tuesday December Twentieth Three Three Three Ay Em 4
The Woods of Perhaps 5
Forest Nocturne 7
Passages North 9
Father Son Spirit 10
This Is about Being Black 12
All Hallow Man 14
Boots of Spanish Leather 16
The Opening Liturgy of the Morning's First Draft is All Fucking While the Evening Makes Love as the Good Poet Puts It 17
I never tire of the moon 19
Set Fire to Stop Fire 20
Something Terrible Is Going to Happen 21
Catching Sight of The Niña The Pinta and The Santa Maria 23
Off Hours 24
Commute the Sentence 26
Tinder of the "Desperate Man" 27
The Physics of Love and Other Uncertain Phases of the Chemistry in Coulomb's Law 28
Tame 35
The Week-Late Answer to that Hot-Tempered Text on My Birthday 36
I/U 37
Now I Know 39
Re: stacks 41
Middle-Age Cartwheel 43
The Lovers Quarrel 45
Slim Tuesday 46
Scene V 47
Winter Aubade 48
How the Wind Heels You 50
Hold Desire as Sand 52
Connections 54
Black Lashes & White Pickup Accents 56
Love Like a Waning Moon 58
Come Back and Solve for x 59
Soft Part 60
A Firefly Turns on the Evening's First Light 62
No Such Forever 63
Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Frog 64
Via Rail Dreaming 66
Part for Me 68
In Answer to My I Love You 70
Make the Next Second Chance 75
Nerve Damage 77
If We Are Savage & Lucky 78
If We Ate Savage & Lucky II 80
Vision 82
The Wall 85
Reasonable Amount of Tenderness 87
Of Course This Brick 89
Germinate 90
Circle Earth: Meditation After Reading Tropic of Cancer 92
Canadian Goose Summer 94
One Two Three Touch or How Not to Dance the Bachata 95
With Soft Eyes She Learned to See the Curvatures of Spacetime in the Omnipresent Grid of Hope and Then Cry Accordingly 96
OMFG: Until the Tyger Learns How to Write 98
Rushes from the River Disappointment 100
Overcast 102
Notes 103
Acknowledgments 106
