Table of Contents
I
Maybe You Are a Certain Man 3
My Husband, Lost in the Wild 5
I Was, of Course 9
Mutius in the Garden of Rejection 11
Love Poem to the Son My Father Wished For 14
Parable 16
North Florida 18
Stray 20
Goatfeathers 22
Six Valedictions from the Last Night I Loved You 24
II
Colloquy with Creeper and Beer 29
Game 32
A Little Learning 33
Love Poem against the Body 35
Threesome with Sea Monsters and Theft 36
Nemean Lion 38
Through Him, and with Him, and in Him 41
Parable 43
Ars Poetica 46
Ars Poetica for the Devil 47
Panacea, FL 52
Love Poem So Tall It Ends in Heaven 56
The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon 58
Ode for Dark Matter 60
III
A Wedding of Jackals 65
IV
Peacock at a Garden Party 77
Love Poem 80
Self-Portrait as Medusa in Shock 86
Notes 91
Acknowledgments 93