Elegy for the Southern Drawl Book

	For Alexis	3
	Down Time	5
	Resurrections	6
	The Fruit House	11
	Owls	12
	The Pine Forests	13
	The Package	14
	Variation on a Sundial	15
	Refusing to Baptize a Son	17
	Not See Again	18
	Central London Time	21
	Holy Ground	22
	Crow Time	25
	Canonical	28
	The Limousine Bringing Isaac Bashevis Singer to Carbondale	29
	The Secret of William Matthews	33
	Plea for Forgiveness	35
	In Memory of Al Cohn, the Humanities Librarian	37
	Aubade	39
	The Poetry Reading	42
	The Obsolescence of Thou	44
	Elegy for the Southern Drawl	47
	Ink	61
	Time on the Zipper	63
	A Puddle for the Theory Group	64
	The Mind of the Lead Guitarist	65
	Raccoon Time	67
	Piece of the Way	69
	A Coronary in Liposuction	71
	One Music	74
	The Perpetual Motion Machine	76
	Nihilist Time	78
	Elegy for a Bad Example	79
	Advice	80
	The Assault on the Fields	85
	Natural Selection	89
	Sacrament for My Penis	93
	In Defense of Ugliness	94
	The Sorrow Pageant	95
	Blessed Assurance	98
	Doing Laundry	101