Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985-2005 Book

	Remembering fire	3
	Sweep	4
	For those who miss the important parts	6
	I find joy in the cemetery trees	8
	Thoreau	10
	The first birth	12
	A history of speech	14
	The laundromat at the bay station	16
	The mosquito	19
	For the eating of swine	21
	Two girls at the Hartselle, Alabama, municipal swimming pool	23
	Decadence	24
	Transparent gestures	33
	One of the citizens	35
	The sadness of early afternoons	37
	On the bearing of waitresses	40
	The kitchen gods	42
	Mule	44
	The foolishness	47
	Winter retreat : homage to Martin Luther King, Jr.	49
	Pussy	51
	Every day there are new memos	53
	Carpe Diem	55
	A blasphemy	57
	Pastoral for Derrida	59
	Life of Sundays	61
	The work of poets	65
	The bridge	67
	Grand projection	69
	Romance of the poor	72
	Thirty-one flavors of houses	75
	At the miracle mall	76
	Contempt	79
	Shame the monsters	84
	At Summerford's rest home	86
	Moment of Whitman	88
	The privilege	90
	Apocalyptic narrative	92
	TV	101
	Mortal sorrows	103
	Beautiful child	105
	Nell	107
	Risks	109
	First fraudulent muse	111
	In the spirit of Limuel Hardin	113
	The end of communism	116
	A ride with the commander	119
	On pickiness	121
	Ground sense	123
	Sex	125
	Dirty blues	128
	Don't worry	130
	Lurleen	133
	Down time	139
	Doing laundry	140
	The poetry reading	142
	Refusing to baptize a son	144
	Not see again	145
	Plea for forgiveness	148
	The limousine bringing Isaac Bashevis singer to Carbondale	150
	Sacrament for my penis	153
	The obsolescence of thou	154
	Elegy for the southern drawl	155
	The assault on the fields	165
	The sorrow pageant	168
	Blessed assurance	171
	A whisper fight at the Peck Funeral Home	177
	Small lower-middle-class white southern male	186
	A defense of poetry	188
	Bufus	190
	Family mattress	192
	Channel	193
	Homage to Mississippi John Hurt	194
	The masters	197
	Moses	199
	Ten sighs from a sabbatical	201
	Salvation blues	209
	The attitude	210
	Elves	212
	The boomers take the field	214
	Sovereign joy	216
	The United States	217
	My monastery	220
	Winton and Mildred	222
	Avuncular	224
	The state-line stripper	225
	The low-down-sorry right-wing blues	226
	Fears	228
	Common-law kundalini	229
	Sitting with others	231
	Thanksgiving in the late fifties	232
	On torture	233
	Courtship	234
	The language of love	235
	Postmodern Christians	236
	My father's big idea	237
	In high school	239
	Vision of the end of the world in the Valdosta Holiday Inn	241
	Olympiad	243
	Rain on tin	244