Brick Road Poetry Press

Contents

xv    Cover Photo   

Notes to Seymour’s Fat Lady

3    My Favorite Line from Howard’s End   
5    Cleaning the Coffee Table, Saturday Night   
6    Feedback   
7    To the December Birds While Re-Filling Their Feeder   
8    Longshoremen, 1969   
11    Anniversary Dinner at a Trendy Little Place   
12    Why Reading Anna Karenina Takes a Long Time   
14    On the Stonehenge Bus   
16    Radical Rhetoric   
18    At the Art Brut Show   
20    Levitation Gone Wrong   
23    Care   
24    Jack’s Royal Comes In   
27    Late Renaissance BO in the Permanent Collection   
29    Picture Postcard from Long Beach, 1933   
30    Origins of Hell   
33    When You Wait Too Late to Go to LA   
37    Toast   
39    On the Approach of Jehovah’s Witnesses   
41    You Probably Had to Be There   
43    A Long Term Study on the Effects of Intercessory Prayer   
45    Fourth and Fifth Periods, 1962   
47    From Milton to Blake   
48    The Morning After  George Segal Died—6/10/00   
50    Checkpoint, Burkina Faso   
52    Prideful Buddhist   

Draughts of the Warm South

56    In My Grandfather’s Ruined Cabin   
58    Cotton States Crossing   
60    West African Church Picnic, Clarkston, Georgia   
62    Atop the Great Temple Mound   
64    Where Flesh Begins   
67    First Commune Winter   
69    Our Liberian Street Preacher, Miss Edna, Makes Her Rounds at Six in the Morning   
71    Jody Leaves the County   
73    Aunt Weeza Sees a Condom on the Side of the Road   
75    Just One of the Ways We Stay Alive   
77    Funeral Fridge   
78    Communal Mule   
80    For Cherryl   
81    Faulkner, Jung and the 60 Cycle Hum   

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