The Heat of Arrivals Book

	Watching a Film About Van Gogh on Christmas Eve	13
	Black Ink Drawings	15
	The Eagles in the Ashes	19
	Watering My Chinese Elm	20
	Pollen Paintings	21
	In the Time of the Scorpion	22
	Salamander	25
	Song for the Lizard Painted on the Plate	26
	Indian Pertroglyphs, Red Desert, Wyoming	27
	The Mummy in the Witte Museum	28
	The Olmec Hunchback	29
	Black Stone Sculpture	30
	In Peru, the Quechans Have a Thousand Words for Potato	31
	Sueno De Mexico	32
	Homage to Lucian Blaga	35
	The Sustenance	43
	Black Adobe	45
	Eating the Snake	46
	The Blue Snake	47
	The Rattle	48
	The Snake in Winter	49
	I Knew Who I Was Before I Dreamed of the Snake	50
	Rattlesnake Dance, Coronado Hills, 1966	51
	Three Snakes, Strawberry Canyon, Berkeley	54
	Snakes as a Gift for My Aching Shoulder	56
	The Grandfather	59
	Snakeskin	60
	The Past	63
	Memory of the Hand	65
	The Cathedral of My Father	67
	How?	68
	Four Times the Feast	69
	Without	71
	Odes to the Family of Spiders	73
	Never	76
	Fathers	77
	The Energy of Clay	78
	The Heat of Arrivals	83
	Praise the Tortilla, Praise Menudo, Praise Chorizo	85
	The Toy	86
	Late Night Moon	88
	Years Later	90
	The Magnets	91
	Was Federico Garcia Lorca Lonely in New York?	93
	These Days	95
	"I Haven't Any Bread and Will Live a Long Life"	97
	Easter Sunday 1988, the Grand Canyon, Arizona	98
	The Owl's Mask	99
	Acknowledgements	100
	About the Author	103