500,000 Azaleas: The Selected Poems of Efra'N Huerta Book

	Love Commands	3
	Tenderness	9
	The Missing One	11
	The Bitter Root	13
	The Drunken Girl	19
	My Country, Oh My Country!	23
	With Regard to Melancholy	31
	Alabama in Bloom	33
	Song	37
	Lake Charles, Louisiana	39
	Mississippi Nocturne	41
	Rain	43
	The Red Horse	45
	Phantoms	47
	The Colony Hotel	49
	Song to Mexican Petroleum	51
	Elegy for the Mounted Police	59
	El Tajin	65
	Declaration of Hatred	71
	Juarez Avenue	79
	Grieving Song to the Catholic Church and to Those Accustomed to Trusting Her	87
	Unfurling of Amazements before God	95
	The San Lorenzo River	97
	The Men of Dawn	99
	The Virgin	105
	Confusion	107
	Ominous Thought	109
	Tame Hyperbole	111
	Che	113
	Problems of the Soul	115
	Widespread Betrayal	129
	Cantata for Che Guevara	133
	This Is Called the Burning Flames	137
	The Murder of a Poet While Sleeping	145
	The Presence of Federico Garcia Lorca	149
	That Blood	157
	Here They Are	161
	Declaration of Love	165
	The Old One and the Gunpowder	173
	Syllables for the Jawbone of Franz Kafka	177
	Song of the Maiden of the Dawn	181
	The Clamor of Dawn	187
	Elegy for a White Rose	191
	Dawn from a Star	193
	Sketch for a Last will and Testament	197