Lunch Book

	second fugue	6
	of all the modern divisions: time splits	8
	maybe he wears my trousers: lagniappe	9
	triptych	10
	studs and rings: favors of the piercing party	11
	he pleasures me: a nasty flick. quiescent	12
	slashed his foot as a boy. heel to toe	13
	the mind is a shapely genital. faces: elaborate	14
	personal	15
	a conch: I washed ashore on more than one atoll	16
	my father and me making dresses: together	17
	my father and me in hollywood: fading and rising starlets	18
	my fingers have performed their services: church steeple people	19
	simple endings overlap: grief is interference	21
	the sad part of living is eating and dying	22
	sounding the depths: she slides into the bath	23
	attended by miracles. every man has two angels	24
	sheet wrapped as a burnoose. about his head	25
	the agricultural application of burial	26
	your torso: enticing to insects like me	27
	remembering the taste of skin: dim prehistory of dives	28
	choose equal weights: berries and sugar	29
	the minotaur at supper: spare the noritake and the spode	30
	darling can you kill me: with your mickeymouse pillows	31
	thinking the think that falls away: my soul he has no hours to waste	32
	you're thin again handsome. in our last	33
	always returning: holidays and burials. not every week	35
	not the treats of quince blossoms. in this rainy cycle the yards	36
	autumn set us heavily to task: unrooted the dahlias	37
	splat in the oatmeal: granddaddy facedown	38
	here comes the welcome wagon with its	39
	women stitching apron corners together neighborly	40
	the future rose: an a-frame on the cumberland	41
	splitzville for ann and mark: the tourniquet	42
	he achieved his escape: john wesley	43
	orphans of career day: the choicest lives already	44
	down with the chickenbumps you came: kerplunk	45
	he imitates his wife: no young drop from the gap	46
	dearest perdition. your sweet peach kisses lost	47
	baby's on a pallet. in the screenporch you iron	48
	sonnet	49
	the rain deliberately falls: as an older boy's hand	50
	old age keeps its reservation. nostalgia	51
	we all carry signs of our obsessions	53
	third-world hunger strikes you. midtown bus	54
	in the new genesis: a part of his skeleton became me. shaped me	55
	you don't have syphilis. the doctor says	56
	because as lives are aching I am lucky: a poisonal cup	57
	in the course of travel: strychnine every few hours. some italian art	58
	when dementia begins: almost makes sense like hamburger translations	59
	cherry elixir: the first medication. so mary poppins	60