Contents
Carnal....................3
"Hold Fast"....................4
Conception, American Style....................6
Fundevogel....................8
September 12, 2001: View of Down town Manhattan from My Bedroom Window....................10
Instead of Going Straight to the Dancing Bear Inn....................11
Virgin....................12
First Blow Job....................13
For Dear Life....................14
Maternal....................15
1970....................17
Rescued....................19
Living in the Volcano....................20
Socks....................21
Stubborn....................22
The Wait....................23
Danny Boy : My Father's Funeral....................25
House for Sale....................29
Rum & Coke & a New Apartment....................31
Nature Poetry....................33
In the Days of Code Orange....................34
The Prodigal Father....................35
So This Grasshopper Walks into a Bar....................36
George Says Stop Writing About Yourself....................40
Mitzvah on Saturday Morning....................41
Aubade....................44
New Hampshire, Late Winter (2006)....................47
Tattoo....................49
Postcard from New Hampshire....................51
Dr. Franken stein Learns the Mother He Never Met Is Dead....................52
Aneurysm....................53
Country Summer Blues....................55
On Learning That Henry Ford Was an Anti-Semite....................56
Home by Now....................57
New Hampshire, Late Winter II (2007)....................58
Elegy for the Unknown Father....................60
Letter from Vauven argues....................61
Notes & Dedications....................64