From the Book - [Paperback reprint edition].
from Dangerous Life (1989): The news (A manifesto) --
from The body mutinies (1996): How Western underwear came to Japan --
The roots of pessimism in model rocketry, the fallacy of its premise --
Women who sleep on stones --
Cairn for future travel. --
from: The oldest map with the name America (1999): Beige trash --
Crash course in semiotics --
Lament in good weather --
The oldest map with the name America --
The salmon underneath the city --
from Luck is luck (2005): To my big nose --
The crows start demanding royalties --
On the destruction of the Mir --
The cardinal's nephews --
On the high suicide rate of dentists --
In the Confessional Mode, with a Borrowed Movie Trope --
Bulletin from Somewhere up the Creek --
My eulogy was deemed too strange --
Night festival, Olympia --
Eulogy from the boardwalk behind the KFC --
from Inseminating the elephant (2009): Virtue is the best helmet --
From Notes from my apprenticeship --
First epistle of Lucia to her old boyfriends --
January/Macy's/the bra event --
The van with the plane --
Snowstorm with inmates and dogs --
Twenty-five thousand volts per inch --
For the first crow with West Nile Virus to arrive in our state --
Inseminating the elephant --
For the mad cow in Tenino. --
from On the spectrum of possible deaths (2012): The second slaughter --
To the field of scotch broom that will be buried by the new wing of the mall --
I could name some names --
The wolves of Illinois --
New poems: Daisies vs. bees --
Elegy for idle curiosity --
Belated poem in the voice of the pond --
Early December, two weeks shy --
A little death, suitable for framing --
Etiology of my illness --
The rape of Blanche DuBois --
Time will clean the carcass bones --
