Uncivilizing Book

	Introduction	9
	We Breathe Only Oxygen	12
	A Target	13
	Tomorrow I Will Steal a Blackjack	14
	Beware Passion, My Friend	16
	This Lady	17
	Eating	18
	Scarce as Angels	20
	Hurting You	22
	Heart-to-Heart Talking	23
	Heart Complains	24
	Heart Talks Back	25
	'They'	27
	Tombstones	28
	This Bird With the Bullet in its Bill	29
	'How Ya Ben?'	30
	Billy	32
	Missing	33
	Simon Recording for his Great-Grandmother	34
	Moon on the Rise	35
	My Grandfather's Eye	36
	The Contest	37
	Mama Helen	38
	Splitting Rocks	39
	The Summer Barn	40
	Penelope	42
	Penelope's Monologue	43
	Variation on a Theme of Eros	44
	Puppeteer	46
	Where is it Written?	47
	Neighbours	48
	While Daylight Lasts	49
	A Defence of Prose-Poetry	52
	Blues for all the Similes: On Reading the "National Enquirer"	53
	Prohibitions: Grandfather's Parting Words of Advice	54
	The Forecast for your Region Tomorrow	55
	A Girl Walks by in a Benediction of Jeans	56
	A Creation Story	57
	Rainbows	58
	Several Difficulties With Judging Distances	59
	After the Catch	60
	The Woman of your Dreams	62
	The Necessity of Quarrels	64
	Tawatinaw Valley Farm	65
	Messengers	66
	The University of Silence	68
	Wedding in the Garden	69
	Letter	72
	In Ukraine	73
	Canada Tavern	74
	North Country	75
	My D.P.s	75
	Memories on Wolodymyr Serotiuk's Birthday	76
	Veechnaya Pamyat	78
	The Gift	79
	Babyn Yar	80
	Singing Sand	81
	Sky Ku	82
	Haiku	82
	Migration	83
	Before Glasnost, Oy Tovarish	84
	Singing for Dinner	85
	Advice to a Canadian in Paradise	86
	Scarlet the Parrot	88
	The Biggest Party Animal of them All	90
	Turning 60	94
	On my Way to the Korean War ...	96
	42 Poets Named Robert	98
	Sex & TV With Aunt Miriam - 1945	100
	Portrait of an L.A. Daughter	102
	"Hot Sugar Chili Sex"	105
	"It's a Gun"	108
	The Ship	112
	A Novelette Called: Not Proven	115
	Moses	116
	The Congress Cafe	118
	Brush Strokes in Decorating a Fan	119
	Acknowledgements	127