Contents -- Poems -- I. Visitations and Sightings -- They Abandon the Search for Federico -- On Cleaning Up All These Ashes in the Sand -- Dolls (3) -- The Essential Flavors of the Finite -- Nothing to Take Back -- 1959 -- Greening Over Them Blues -- Winter Morning, Venice Beach, 2006 -- Red Toile -- Lets Call It Chicago -- Sassafras & Morphine -- Anthony Jerome -- Ashes Scatterd at Sea -- To the Chef's Widow-This Breaking of Bread -- Crossing Campus -- A Mutant Angel Speaks -- San Diego State of Mind -- Sangria Sangria -- New Love's Mastery -- Quasheba -- Essay on a Marriage -- O Soul Concealed Below -- Detroit Left at the Moon -- The Hives -- Where My Blues Done Gone -- II. Channelings -- Ouphe & Barghest -- Ode to a Lost Piece of Hose -- Ending the Arts by Parts -- 9/11, The Reznikoff Variation -- Port Aransas Second Hand -- Rosy Babe -- Footnote to an Unfinished Poem -- Nefertari Speaks -- What the Gin Rummy Queen Taught Me -- No Houdini Breakthrough Yet -- Footnote to an Unfinished Poem (2) -- Black Beans and Rice -- Tell It to the Walls Mom -- Coltrane's "Naima" Narrative Transmigrated by Himself -- Love Without Summers -- My Neruda -- Auguries (7) -- III. Bleatings -- Lioness -- White Pepper -- Unspoiled -- My Crowning Glory -- A Talk with My Grandson, Age Six -- Stagnation and Return -- Fear of Screaming -- Endless Mornings Spent in Nameless Rage -- Shitworker in GeneralL (2) -- Noise (3) -- Darkest Shadow of the Self -- The Warnings in a Mad Dog's Eyes -- The Blood this Morning -- Morning Again -- Dearest One -- I Followed My Dream -- Footnote to an Unfinished Poem (3) -- How We Differ: Quasheba to Eve -- Blacker than Black -- Orb Weaver -- The War of Wars -- Orb Weaver (2) -- What Littel I Know About Truth -- IV. Throbs -- Morning in Kentwood -- Espantalalepsis (4) -- Jimi Jam Ses -- Once Upon a Kiss-A Celebration -- The Jinn Abandoned.

Inside the Trap of Your Knowing -- The Hives (2) -- Yardwork -- Prelude to a Stroke -- One Man Acts Alone Against Death -- A Romantic Marriage -- The Crying Man -- Night Drives -- Going to Blazes -- My Own Private Resurrection -- Untitled -- The Mingus Effect -- Southerly Equinox -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.