Table of Contents
From The Body's Question (2003)
Something Like Dying, Maybe 5
Serenade 6
Thirst 8
Gospel: Manuel 10
Gospel: Miguel (el Lobito) 11
Gospel: Luis 12
Gospel: Juan 13
Gospel: Alejandro (el Monstruo) 14
Gospel: Jesus 15
Drought 16
Mangoes 19
Appetite 21
A Hunger So Honed 23
Credulity 25
Wintering 26
Joy 27
Self-Portrait as the Letter Y 32
Fire Escape Fantasy 35
Bright 36
The Machinery of Evening 39
Shadow Poem 42
Prayer 44
From Duende (2007)
History 47
Flores Woman 56
The Searchers 58
September 60
El Mar 61
Minister of Saudade 63
After Persephone 66
One Man at a Time 67
Now That the Weather Has Turned 69
Duende 70
Slow Burn 72
Theft 73
"I Killed You Because You Didn't Go to School and Had No Future" 78
"Into the Moonless Night" 79
Costa Chica 87
The Nobodies 89
From Life on Mars (2011)
The Weather in Space 95
Sci-Fi 96
My God, It's Full of Stars 97
The Universe Is a House Party 102
The Museum of Obsolescence 103
Cathedral Kitsch 104
It & Co. 105
The Largeness We Can't See 106
Don't You Wonder, Sometimes? 107
The Universe: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 110
The Speed of Belief 111
It's Not 118
Life on Mars 119
Solstice 124
Ransom 125
They May Love All That He Has Chosen and Hate All That He Has Rejected 126
The Universe as Primal Scream 131
The Good Life 133
Song 134
When Your Small Form Tumbled into Me 135
Us & Co. 136
From Wade in the Water (2018)
Garden of Eden 139
The Angels 140
Hill Country 142
Deadly 144
Wade in the Water 145
Declaration 147
The Greatest Personal Privation 148
I Will Tell You the Truth about This, I Will Tell You All about It 151
Ghazal 165
The United States Welcomes You 166
Unrest in Baton Rouge 167
Watershed 168
Political Poem 175
Eternity 177
Ash 180
Beatific 181
Dusk 182
The Everlasting Self 184
Annunciation 185
An Old Story 186
Riot: New Poems (2021)
Riot 189
Bee on a Sill 192
A Suggestion 193
"You Certainly Have the Right to Your Thoughts in This Minefield" 195
We Feel Now a Largeness Coming On 197
Found Poem 198
The Elephant in the Poem 199
Mothership 200
Dock of the Bay 201
Photo of Sugarcane Plantation Workers, Jamaica, 1891 202
The Wave after Wave Is One Wave Never Tiring 204
Some Trees 205
I Sit Outside in Low Late-Afternoon Light to Feel Earth Call to Me 206
Soulwork 207
Rapture 208
I Ask for Someone Who Has Lived It, Any Part of It 209
Logos 210
Riot 211
Notes 213
Acknowledgments 221
