Avalanche Book

	The Sound, Breaking Away	15
	Embryo #2	21
	Old Black Ladies Standing on Bus Stop Corners #2	25
	Snake-Back Solo #2	28
	Watch Out for Sound Bites & Spin Doctors	31
	A Response to All You "Angry White Males"	32
	Eye Change Dreams	35
	Slippin' & Slidin' Over Syllables for Fun	38
	A Poem for "Magic"	40
	& Syllables Grow Wings There	43
	Looking at Both Sides of a Question	44
	One for Charlie Mingus	46
	Reflections	47
	Collage	51
	Avalanche	54
	Poem for Friends	61
	"Minnesota Nice"	67
	Let's Say You Are Who	68
	The Old People Speak of Death	71
	Conjuring Against Alien Spirits	74
	The Absoluteness of Seconds	77
	For Malcolm, Who Walks in the Eyes of Our Children	78
	Poem for My Father	80
	Male Springtime Ritual	83
	Poem in Search of a Common Genetic	86
	Untitled	101
	1994 Winter Olympic Hype	102
	Firestorm	103
	Still Life in a Doorway in Seattle	104
	Chuckanut Drive, South of Bellingham, Washington	105
	San Juan Island Image	106
	Taos, New Mexico, Image & Myth	107
	Back to the Dream Time	108
	At the Edge	110
	La Jolla	113
	The Flip Side of Time	114
	Flight	116
	Stillness	117
	Birth Form: Tercetina	119
	The View from Skates in Berkeley	120
	This One's for You, Jose	125