Contents -- New Poems -- Ode to Forgetting the Year -- How to Pray -- Ode to Knots, Noise, Waking Up at Three, and Falling Asleep Reading to My Id -- Ode to Skimpy Clothes and August in the Deep South -- Ode to Lil' Kim in Florence -- Reading Can Kill You -- 17 Dollars -- Ode to Red and Speedy -- Ode to the Messiah, Thai Horror Movies, and Everything I Can't Believe -- Ode to the Triple -- Ode to Wasting Time and Drawing Donatello's David -- On the Street of Divine Love -- Ode to Augurs, Ogres, Acorns, and Two or Three Things That Have Been Eating at My Heart Like a Wolverine in a Time of Famine -- I'm Making Walt Whitman Soup -- Questions for My Body -- Delirium (1995) -- The Language of Bees -- Betrothal in B minor -- Ova -- Toska -- St. Anthony of the Floating Larynx -- St. Clare's Underwear -- Nose -- Delirium -- The Alphabet of Desire (1999) -- The Word -- Thinking of Galileo -- The Dream of the Red Drink -- Achtung, My Princess, Good Night -- Hatred -- So Long, Roy -- Trigger Tries to Explain -- Ode on My Wasted Youth -- Ode to Untoward Dreams -- Ode to the Lost Luggage Warehouse at the Rome Airport -- Babel (2004) -- My Translation -- The Mockingbird on the Buddha -- Idolatry -- O Deceitful Tongue -- Vex Me -- Fang -- Thus Spake the Mockingbird -- Ode to American English -- Ode to Hardware Stores -- Ode to Barbecue -- Ode on Satan's Power -- Ode to My 1977 Toyota -- Ode on My Mother's Handwriting -- All-Night LIngo Tango (2009) -- Ode to Anglo Saxon, Film Noir, and the Hundred Thousand Anxieties That Plague Me Like Demons in a Medieval Christian Allegory -- Working at Pam-Pam's -- from 9 Sonnets from the Psalms -- Ode to Air Heads, Hairdos, Trains to and from Paris -- Mambo Cadillac -- from Lingo Sonnets -- Ode on Dictionaries -- Ode on My 45s, Insomnia, and My Poststructuralist Superego -- Ode on the Letter M -- Acknowledgments.