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But Instead Has Gone Underground -- Some Nights I'm Raisel Devora Dreaming of Old Houses in Russia -- Lake Champlain -- Camp Hochelago -- Heat Wave, Middlebury -- Somewhere under the Pepperoni in a Sealed Can -- Hair -- Day Dreaming -- Snow, the Color of -- That December -- Diamond Ring -- He Was Really My Favorite -- Those Nights Still Asked for I.D. -- Cat Women -- The No More Apologizing, the No More Little Laughing Blues -- Trying to Get the Bookstore to Buy My Books Blues -- Cat Callahan -- Cabbages, Leaves and Morphine -- In the Second Letter He Said -- The Lightning Bug -- Dissolves -- The Spaces -- Enough -- Sunday -- Burning Poems -- After the Reading the Color Is Blue -- Moving by Touch -- Snake Dance -- Chihuahua, Coahuila -- The Erotic Mirror Dream -- Falling for a Voice and a Laugh on the Radio -- He Was Always Leaving as I Was Coming Around -- Wet Leaves Close to Midnight -- When You Pulled the Barrettes Out -- Afterward the Phone Dangles like Rope -- At the All Night Talk Radio Station -- Like the Print, Still on My Grey Wall where Your Palm Pressed -- Hearing You I Think Drunk on the Air -- Dreaming of the West Again -- Lately He Says It's Not the Same, Hardly Wild -- Brownie McGhee Dies -- That Year, That Icy Blackness -- Down the Coast -- Candles in Us -- Witherbee, 1911 -- May 21, 1911 -- In a Small Dark Bedroom -- Linden Tea -- When the Spirea Is Still Dripping with Night -- 56 North Pleasant Street -- Before It's Light -- June 30, Record Cold -- They Didn't, on Their First Night, Do It -- July Dark Enough -- That Summer Spirea Dripped like Snow and Doors Clanged -- Reading the Poem My Cousin Wrote that I Hadn't -- That August 24 -- In the Negatives -- Smoothing Out My Sister -- After the Visit -- My Sister, Re-Reading 32 Years of Diaries -- My Uncle, in the Bed He Was Born in 70 Years Ago -- Seeing Someone Else Who Looks like My Sister -- 23 Hill Street -- There Were Spiders over the Carriage -- Mama -- 38 Main Street -- My Mother and the Bed -- My Mother and I Were -- My Mother's Third Call on a Day of Sleet and December Falling -- The Smallest Orange Slivers -- Maui Bad Dream -- The Doctor Says My Mother Is Fun -- My Mother Tells Me She Likes My Barrette -- My Mother and the Lilacs -- My Mother Dreams of Lilacs -- My Mother No Longer Asks if I Washed My Hands or the Tub -- Dressing My Mother -- Burning Tissues -- My Mother Wants Me to Feed Her -- My Mother, the TV on, Her Back to It, Gazing -- After Hearing It Will Be "Three Weeks" -- My Mother, the Demerol Wearing Off -- In the Last Days You Said My Hair Scratched You -- In My Mother's Last Hours -- Afterward -- That August -- That Other August 6 -- Thinking of That April -- Moving Through the Fourth Fall -- Dropping the Bottle of Perfume My Mother Always Wore -- Early Friday I Wondered, Suddenly, Was Cab Calloway Living, Was He -- In the Photographs Before -- Reading Love Letters to My Mother -- I Love the Man in This Picture -- If I Had a Daughter (1) -- If I Had a Daughter (2) -- If I Had a Daughter (3) -- Monet's Les Nympheas -- February -- Alberta Hunter -- On Hearing Someone Say in Their Guidelines They Do Not Like My Now Famous Student -- For Years She Could Smell Them, Feel Their Feathers -- She Said She Was 13, She Wanted To but Not with the Boys in Her Town, the Ones Who Knew Her Family and Who'd Tell If She Did -- She Said It Was Her Mother's Breasts -- She Drove Her '79 Chevy Pickup -- In the Photograph -- 7 Year Old Finds Her Mother's Body -- It Was Shadows in Dreams She said, Worse than Claws -- He Uses All His "Up" Up on the Radio -- Earl Calls Talk Radio, Drifts from City to City -- Mickey McGary -- My Neighbor in Her Veils -- Sadie Says Goodbye -- The Mad Girl Takes the Radio out of the Room -- The Mad Girl Hums "I Go Along without You before I Met You" -- The Mad Girl Is Flip, Uses Words -- The Mad Girl Feels She Could Have Been or Maybe Was the Girl Who Slept with All the Rock Stars, Wrote a Book about It -- The Mad Girl Is About to Throw Out Frederick's of Hollywood's Catalogue -- The Mad Girl Wraps the Porn Book in a Jacket about Steak on the Subway -- Her Penis for a Day -- Lorena Remembers the Night She Had a Penis of Her Own -- The Unabomber's Woman -- My Afternoons with Dylan Thomas -- Still Thinking of the Poem Someone Wrote Where Emily Dickinson Is Prissying On about What White to Wear and Where to Hide Her Poems -- The Franciscan Who Writes Around Sends 150 Dollars to Long-Haired Women for Their Used Underwear -- Jackie-O Reads The Story of O Again -- Barbie Wants Her Own Wishbook -- Marilyn Monroe Dreams of Growing Her Own Penis under Roots of Trees -- Jesus and Marilyn -- He Could Get Rid of a Fever, He Could Make a Woman Come -- Doing New York City with Jesus -- Jesus Goes to the Poetry Slam -- Want-Hair -- The Ice Maiden Mummy's 97th S.O.S. -- The Woman Who Loved Maps -- The Woman Who Loves Maps (1) -- This December -- Even Before the Pond Froze Over -- I Remember Haifa Being Lovely But -- Seeing the Documentary of the Liberation of Bergen Belsen -- I Got the Bucks Figure a Long Slow -- Like That -- It's Garnet or Blood, Depending on How You Look at It -- On the Other Coast of the Sea: Plymouth Diaries -- North -- Old Homesteads in Canada -- Tibet Woman (1) -- Tibet Woman (2) -- Tibet Woman (3) -- Blue Sleighs -- Rosh Hodesh -- Ladies Room, National Archives -- Carl's Department Store Bathroom -- In That Thruway Ladies Room -- Midwest -- Arizona Ruins -- New Mexico -- Early, Last Day of June -- May, Drizzle, Virginia -- Feeding Ducks, Grey November -- The Birds Like a Radio On All Night -- In the Rippled Ebony Cove -- Geese on Ice -- Geese at Midnight -- Like a Dark Lantern -- At the Pond Early -- Reprieve -- Before Dark Comes Too Early -- It Goes On. |
