The Summer of Black Widows Book

	After the First Lightning	11
	The Summer of Black Widows	12
	Defending Walt Whitman	14
	Mistranslation of a Traditional Spokane Indian Song	16
	Glossary of a Powwow	17
	The First and Last Ghost Dance of Lester FallsApart	18
	That Place Where Ghosts of Salmon Jump	19
	Song of Ourself	20
	Why We Play Basketball	21
	Haibun	29
	Grandmother, Porcupine, Traffic	31
	Totem Sonnets	32
	When I Was My Father I Sang Love Songs to My Son	39
	Father and Farther	40
	Diabetes	44
	Death of the Landlord	45
	Elegies	49
	Fire as Verb and Noun	52
	Sonnet: Tattoo Tears	56
	Sister Fire, Brother Smoke	60
	The Lover of Maps	63
	How We Learn to Say "Mouth" and "Hand" and "Small of Back"	64
	Marriage	65
	Grand Entry	66
	Drum as Love, Fear, and Prayer	68
	Last Will and Testament	73
	Harmful Jazz	77
	Owl Dancing with Fred Astaire	78
	Airplane	81
	Prayer Animals	84
	How to Remodel the Interior of a Catholic Church	85
	Capital Punishment	86
	Tourists	91
	How to Write the Great American Indian Novel	94
	The Exaggeration of Despair	96
	The Powwow at the End of the World	98
	What We Notice, What We Miss	99
	The Sasquatch Poems	103
	Introduction to Western Civilization	113
	After the Trial of Hamlet, Chicago, 1994	114
	Inside Dachau	117
	Reading Harvey Shapiro's Poetry While Standing in Line to See Tom Hanks in Apollo 13	123
	Things (for an Indian) to do in New York (City)	124
	Going to the Movies with Geronimo's Wife	131
	The Museum of Tolerance	133
	Airplane, Airport, Airline, Air in the Bottom of the Ninth Inning	134
	Bob's Coney Island	138