| The New Higher You meant more than life to me. I lived through |
| Making a Fist For the first time, on the road north of Tampico, |
| homage to my hips these hips are big hips. |
| Eating Poetry Ink runs from the corners of my mouth |
| The Young Man's Song I whispered, |
| Possum Crossing Backing out the driveway |
| Ballad forgive me if i laugh |
| That Sure is My Little Dog Yes, indeed, that is my house that I am carrying around |
| Dangerous for Girls It was the summer of Chandra Levy, disappearing |
| Falling The states when they black out and lie there rolling when they turn |
| Charlotte Brontë in Leeds Point From her window marshland stretched for miles. |
| Deer Hit You're seventeen and tunnel-vision drunk, |
| The Pomegranate The only legend I have ever loved is |
| Ground Swell Is nothing real but when I was fifteen, |
| The Changing Light The changing light at San Francisco |
| Lady Tactics |
| The Wild Iris At the end of my suffering |
| The Fist The fist clenched round my heart... |
| Mairsy and Dosey |
| Patience Patience is |
| Thanks Listen |
| Cicada A youngest brother turns seventeen with a click as good as a roar, |
| A Muse He winds through the party like wind, one of the just who |
| Alice at Seventeen: Like a Blind Child One summer afternoon, I learned by body |
| Mermaid Song Damp-haired from the bath, you drape yourself |
| Hyper- Then a stillness descended the blue hills |
| Ave Maria Mothers of America |
| Sticks My father was an enormous man |
| Notes from the Other Side I divested myself of despair |
| White Apples when my father had been dead a week |
| Workshop I might as well begin by saying how much I like the title |
| Howl, Parts I & II I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked |
| Coach Losing His Daughter She stares at his players |
| In Knowledge of Young Boys i knew you before you had a mother |