Florida Poems Book

	A City in the Clouds	3
	The First Days	3
	The Clouds	5
	The Shapes and the Lines	7
	The Fruits of the Earth	9
	The Birds	12
	The Machines	15
	The Slaves	18
	The Alligators	20
	The Clouds	24
	The Last Days	25
	Florida	31
	The Orange	32
	The Key Lime	34
	Because This Is Florida	35
	William Bartram Beset by Crocodiles or Alligators	36
	Edison in Fort Myers, 1885	43
	Florida	46
	Benediction for the Savior of Orlando	47
	The Strangler Fig	51
	The Florida Anasazi	52
	Mile Marker 73, Lower Matecumbe Key	53
	Seashells, Manasota Key	54
	Hemingway Dines on Boiled Shrimp and Beer	56
	Elizabeth Bishop in the House on White Street	57
	Maizel at Shorty's in Kendall	59
	The Calusa	60
	The Manatee	62
	Trouble with Miami	63
	At the Royal Palm Barbershop	64
	The Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial	67
	Late February, Miami Beach	71
	The Zebra Longwing	72
	Florida	74
	The Florida Poem	79