The Simple Truth: Poems Book

	On the Meeting of Garcia Lorca and Hart Crane	3
	Ode for Mrs. William Settle	5
	Lame Ducks, McKesson and Robbins, 1945	7
	February 14th	9
	One Day	10
	Ask for Nothing	13
	Soul	14
	The Trade	16
	Llanto	18
	In the Dark	19
	Magpiety	20
	The Poem of Chalk	27
	Dreaming in Swedish	29
	Out by Dark	30
	The Return	32
	Getting There	33
	Blue	36
	Blue and Blue	37
	Tristan	39
	Dust and Memory	41
	The Escape	42
	The Simple Truth	44
	No Buyers	47
	Winter Words, Manhattan	49
	My Sister's Voice	51
	The Old Testament	52
	Photography	54
	My Brother Abel, the Wounded	56
	Edward Lieberman, Entrepreneur, Four Years After the Burnings on Okinawa	58
	Listen Carefully	59
	The Spanish Lesson	61
	My Mother with Purse the Summer They Murdered the Spanish Poet	63
	My Father with Cigarette Twelve Years before the Nazis Could Break his Heart	65
	Notes	69