Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems

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Neon Vernacular Title Copyright Dedication Contents New Poems Fog Galleon At the Screen Door Moonshine Salt Changes; or, Reveries at a Window Overlooking a Country Road, with Two Women Talking Blues in the Kitchen Work Praising Dark Places A Good Memory Birds on a Powerline Fever Little Man Around the House Songs for My Father from Dedications & Other Darkhorses The Tongue Is Chair Gallows Translating Footsteps from Lost in the Bonewheel Factory Looking a Mad Dog Dead in the Eyes 1938 Stepfather: A Girl's Song Apprenticeship Light on the Subject Beg Song Passions The Dog Act For You, Sweetheart, I'll Sell Plutonium Reactors The Nazi Doll Corrigenda from Copacetic False Leads Soliloquy: Man Talking to a Mirror The Way the Cards Fall Annabelle Faith Healer More Girl Than Boy April Fools' Day Untitled Blues Back Then Blasphemy Safe Subjects Black String of Days Villon / Leadbelly Elegy for Thelonious Copacetic Mingus Letter to Bob Kaufman Woman, I Got the Blues Newport Beach, 1979 Gloria's Clues Charmed The Cage Walker Addendum Epilogue to the Opera of Dead on Arrival Blues Chant Hoodoo Revival from I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head Unnatural State of the Unicorn Touch-up Man How I See Things The Thorn Merchant The Thorn Merchant's Right-Hand Man The Heart's Graveyard Shift Boy Wearing a Dead Man's Clothes The Music That Hurts When in Rome—Apologia The Thorn Merchant's Wife The Thorn Merchant's Mistress After Summer Fell Apart The Brain to the Heart Audacity of the Lower Gods The Falling-Down Song The Thorn Merchant's Son I Apologize 1984 Dreambook Bestiary Jonestown: More Eyes for Jadwiga's Dream Landscape for the Disappeared Good Joe In the Background of Silence For the Walking Dead Child's Play The Beast & Burden: Seven Improvisations from Toys in a Field Ambush Monsoon Season Water Buffalo Le Xuan, Beautiful Spring Please from Dien Cai Dau Camouflaging the Chimera Tunnels Starlight Scope Myopia Hanoi Hannah "You and I Are Disappearing" Re-creating the Scene We Never Know A Break from the Bush Tu Do Street Communiqué Prisoners Jungle Surrender Thanks To Have Danced with Death Report from the Skull's Diorama Boat People Missing in Action Facing It from February in Sydney The Plea The Man Who Carries the Desert Around Inside Himself: For Wally Rocks Push When Loneliness Is A Man A Quality of Light Gerry's Jazz Boxing Day Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel February in Sydney