Never Before: Poems About First Experiences Book

	Never before	3
	When I was conceived	9
	First haircut	10
	Poem on the first day of school	11
	Waterfall	12
	Bridges	13
	Window of our soul	14
	The ice-cream sandwich	15
	Sunday morning walk	16
	First	18
	First kill	19
	Suzanne	20
	First time going to school all by myself	21
	Hail	23
	First glasses	24
	Frutas	26
	Peaches	27
	Foreplay	29
	Riding lesson	30
	Winged snake found on a path	31
	The first one	32
	Joining the circus	33
	Fingers in the bread	34
	Story of sound	35
	Horse	37
	Fowler street	38
	Learning to swim at poverty beach	40
	Treasure	41
	The picnic	43
	First love, sixteen years old	45
	The cry	46
	First kiss	51
	First kiss	53
	Fall	54
	Sequence	56
	First drink	58
	First time at the wheel	59
	Ooh my soul	60
	Orphic night	62
	The widening	64
	First blow-job	65
	Development	66
	Fifteen	67
	4-H	68
	The single urge	70
	The eclipse	71
	All the pools in queens	73
	Trade show	75
	The first time I heard Elvis	76
	My father's first fight	77
	The doe	79
	The hunt	80
	Into first	81
	Orientation : Wittenberg University	82
	Firsts in no particular order	87
	New year	89
	Thank you for being you	90
	The sphere	91
	Chelsea	93
	God and the G-spot	94
	Poem for a new girlfriend	95
	Sperm count	96
	Upon seeing an ultrasound photo of an unborn child	97
	Goodnight goodbye	98
	Cantata, viii.	99
	The birth room	100
	Arrival	102
	New York, 1927	104
	Latching on, falling off	106
	First nightmare waking	111
	Cathedral	113
	First empathy	114
	August horizon	116
	Query	117
	At the crematorium, my son asks why we're all wearing black	118
	My son's wedding, my daughter's	119
	First night in the new house	121
	First date in twenty-five years	122
	Poem on my birthday	123
	Evidence of life	127
	Each sound	128
	The middle age	129
	The Kildan women	131
	Self-portrait as a drowned man	132
	To the south	134
	La Bajada	136
	First sight	137
	Bridge view	139
	First job viper	140
	First turtle	141
	Taking calls in Freeport, NY	142
	Second story warehouse	143
	Job	145
	First time reading freud	148
	The first time I robbed Tiffany's	150
	First nights	151
	First exercise	152
	Good morning coffee makes vivid of the vague; suddenly you have hands and eyes and legs!	154
	Of Marilyn, and marijuana	155
	Poem without a freight train or a pocket watch	157
	Swinging low	158
	Blind date with the muse	159
	First poem	160
	When my poem appeared	161
	First books	162
	First sunset at Outler's ranch	164
	Feeding the worms	165
	After the first snow	166
	First lesson : winter trees	168
	The first stone	169
	After	170
	Introducing, New Year's solutions, from Saint Terri's Inc.	171
	H. Chic	172
	My mother's body	173
	Tinnitus	174
	Losing my hair	175
	Changing	178
	Verse for first	179
	Elevator	180
	Confession	181
	My corpses	182
	Inquest, by hand	183