Excerpts from the Mariposa Letters 1 --
This Voice Within Me 27 --
Excerpt from Letter to Will Inman, 5 May 1977 29 --
From Swords of Darkness --
The Young Men Are Laughing 33 --
I Turn My Little Fan On 38 --
Walking Down to Town and Back 40 --
I Applied for the Board 55 --
Steel Doors of Prison 56 --
I Think of Little People 64 --
Your Letter Slips Through the Opening in My Heart 71 --
The Distance We've Arrived At 72 --
Living My Other Life 73 --
Dreaming About Freedom 76 --
With My Massive Soul I Open 84 --
A Handful of Earth, That Is All I Am 87 --
Tapestry of Downtown 89 --
From Set This Book on Fire! --
I've Seen Too Many 100 --
Let Me Give You a Portrait 105 --
I Put On My Jacket 108 --
I Have Roads in Me 109 --
The Reason I Wake This Morning 116 --
At Lori's House in Wisconsin 122 --
It's an Easy Morning 125 --
Sometimes I Long for the Sweet Madness 127 --
The First Hard Cold Rain 131 --
Ghost Reading in Sacramento 138 --
The Truth Be Known 140 --
Poets Can Still Have a Good Heart 142 --
It Makes Sense to Me Now 144 --
The Journey Has Always Been 150 --
Another Poet I've Known 155 --
With Paz By the Fire Last Night 158 --
Set This Book on Fire! 162 --
Why and When and How 165 --
Rita Falling from the Sky 169 --
Singing at the Gates 218 --
This Disgusting War! 238 --
