Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002 Book

	Indictment of senior officers	3
	The sisters of sexual treasure	4
	Station	5
	Monarchs	6
	Infinite bliss	7
	The language of the brag	8
	The talk	10
	I could not tell	11
	Ideographs	15
	Photograph of the girl	16
	Race riot, tulsa, 1921	17
	Of all the dead that have come to me, this once	18
	Miscarriage	19
	My father snoring	20
	The moment	21
	The connoisseuse of slugs	22
	New mother	23
	Sex without love	24
	Ecstasy	25
	Exclusive	26
	Rite of passage	27
	35/10	28
	The missing boy	29
	Bestiary	30
	The one girl at the boys' party	31
	Summer solstice, New York city	35
	On the subway	37
	The food-thief	39
	The girl	40
	The Pope's penis	42
	When	43
	I go back to May 1937	44
	Alcatraz	45
	Why my mother made me	46
	After 37 years my mother apologizes for my childhood	47
	Cambridge elegy	48
	Topography	50
	I cannot forget the woman in the mirror	51
	The moment the two worlds meet	52
	Little things	53
	The month of June : 13 1/2	54
	Looking at them asleep	55
	The glass	59
	His stillness	61
	The lifting	62
	The race	63
	Wonder	65
	The feelings	66
	His ashes	68
	Beyond harm	70
	The underlife	71
	Natural history	72
	The ferryer	73
	I wanted to be there when my father died	75
	Waste sonata	77
	My father speaks to me from the dead	79
	My parents' wedding night, 1937	83
	Japanese-American farmhouse, California, 1942	84
	Killing my sister's fish	85
	Mrs. Krikorian	86
	First	88
	Adolescence	90
	May 1968	91
	Bathing the new born	93
	41, alone, no gerbil	94
	Physics	95
	My son the man	96
	First formal	97
	High school senior	98
	The pediatrician retires	99
	This hour	101
	Full summer	103
	Am and am not	104
	True love	105
	The promise	109
	Know-nothing	111
	Dear heart	113
	19	114
	That day	116
	After punishment was done with me	118
	What is the earth?	120
	Leaving the island	121
	The prepositions	123
	1954	125
	Cool breeze	127
	For and against knowledge	129
	The spouses waking up in the hotel mirror	131
	You kindly	133
	Where will love go?	136
	The protestor	138
	The summer-camp bus pulls away from the curb	139
	The talkers	140
	First thanksgiving	142
	The native	143
	The knowing	145
	Kindergarten abecedarian	149
	Bible study : 71 B.C.E.	150
	5[cents] a peek	152
	Grey girl	153
	Still life in landscape	155
	The wedding vow	156
	His costume	158
	First weeks	159
	The clasp	161
	Diaphragm aria	162
	The window	163
	Fish oil	165
	Wonder as wander	166
	The shyness	168
	April, New Hampshire	170
	The untangling	172
	The learner	174
	Heaven to be	176
	The tending	177
	Psalm	179
	The unswept	181