Reaching for the Mainland and Selected New Poems Book

	They Say	3
	The Woman Who Was Left at the Altar	5
	Housepainter	6
	La tristeza	7
	Moonlight Performance	8
	On the Island I Have Seen	9
	The Mule	10
	The Man Who Lost His Handwriting	11
	Woman Watching Sunset	12
	Grace Stands in Line for Saturday Confession	13
	What the Gypsy Said to Her Children	14
	Pueblo Waking	15
	Visiting La Abuela	16
	The Gusano of Puerto Rico	17
	The Fruit Vendor	18
	The Source	19
	Letter from a Caribbean Island	20
	The Birthplace	21
	Mother Dancing in the Dark	23
	Crossings	24
	My Father in the Navy	25
	Arrival	26
	Latin Women Pray	27
	The Way My Mother Walked	28
	Schoolyard Magic	29
	Claims	30
	A Photograph of Mother at Fifteen Holding Me	31
	Walking to Church	32
	"En mis ojos no hay dias"	33
	Memory of La Abuela	35
	Meditation on My Hands	36
	She Has Been a Long Time Dying	37
	Treasure	38
	The Other	40
	Room at the Empire	41
	To My Brother, Lately Missed	42
	Lost Angels	43
	Closed Casket	44
	We Are All Carriers	45
	In Yucatan	46
	Returning from the Mayan Ruins	48
	Postcard from a Foreign Country	49
	When You Come to My Funeral	50
	Street People	51
	Because My Mother Burned Her Legs in a Freak Accident	52
	Progress Report to a Dead Father	53
	Baptism at La Mision	55
	Fever	56
	A Poem	57
	A-1-A	58
	The Habit of Movement	59
	Lesson One: I Would Sing	60
	The Dream of Birth	63
	Through Climate Changes	65
	Photographs of My Father	68
	Letter from Home in Spanish	70
	Cold as Heaven	72
	The Body Knows	74
	Noche Nueve	75