Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
A Note for the Reader xi
Shave 3
[There's a point where it all gets still] 4
The Sun Got All Over Everything 7
[I remember Dad would tell us the story of Isaac] 9
[$'s huge. Standing there in the woods] 10
Major General 13
Let yourself get loose and double 15
Achingly Beautiful How the Sky Blooms Umber at the End of the Day, Through the Canopy 18
[Locked away we're like a Russian novel] 19
[It's not all bad, I mean we laugh out here] 22
[I like it when $ touches me there, right above the forehead] 23
[Out here it's okay to be nothing] 25
In a Landscape of Perpetual Springtime 26
She Ties My Bow Tie 28
[The Bandleader calls it the Angel Position] 29
[Dad and I, we once went up to the mountains] 32
Major General 33
[Falcon in the trees, bobcat in the grasses] 35
Fox 39
Major General 41
[$'s really beautiful. When $'s standing in the trees] 43
[If I wait long enough I'll hear them nesting] 45
I Had a Mane Once 46
[I was on all fours] 47
The Good Guy's Got No Chance, It's Sad 50
[$'s really beautiful when $ thinks no one is looking] 51
Major General 53
[I like it when $ touches me there,] 55
[$ said, I want you in my mouth,] 56
[T. says it's fine because they don't understand the things we're saying.] 58
Major General 59
Some Thoughts on Building the Atom Bomb 61
[I like the twang and sometimes we can hear it on the radio] 63
Four Long Years At Court 64
Null Point 69
Dry Season at the End of the Empire 70
Major General 71
[I like to watch whose start to want things] 72
[It's a long way to go to get away] 74
"I was popular in certain circles" 75
[Some kids killed a goat and cooked him in the ground] 77
[You can hold a duck down on a rock and cut its head off] 79
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In the Darkness of the House of Pleasure 83
Who Holds The Stag's Head Gets to Speak 88
Praise House: The New Economy 89
[The paint chipped away on the wall looked like the bull] 91
