On a Bed of Rice: An Asian American Erotic Feast Book

	Acknowledgments
	Foreword: Unfurling Pleasure, Embracing Race
	What People Knew	3
	The Great Depression	11
	The Mother "i"	12
	Buying Shoes	26
	The Chocolatier	31
	Two Rooms	33
	Jeannie	36
	Roses	49
	The Word Love	57
	Moths	69
	The Cousins	76
	Reunions with a Ghost	82
	Memento Mori	84
	Kala: Sitting on Our Bikes by the Catholic Church	87
	Sacrament	89
	From Tokyo Bound	97
	Tongue	110
	Lipstick	115
	The Handbook of Sex of the Plain Girl	124
	Volcanology: Curtain of Fire	126
	Skin Diving in Bombay	128
	From Body	143
	Mangoes	149
	Krista Rising	156
	Gloriously	171
	The Size of It	175
	Asian Penis: The Long and Short of It	177
	From Re-Placing Angels	185
	My Body, Singing in Silence	194
	Skin Flowers	198
	From Aomori	201
	From The Hemisphere: Kuchuk Hanem	204
	Kim	208
	Afterimages of Leung Kar Fai	217
	From Obasan	229
	The Tenant	233
	In Between and Around	250
	The Movers	255
	From Native Speaker	270
	Song for Lovers	274
	Winston and Samantha	276
	Sea of Grace	284
	Fear of Flying	291
	Happiness: A Manifesto	304
	The Poet Welcomes His Male Muse	312
	Potato Eater	314
	Poet's Cafe	326
	Stories to Read Aloud: No. VI	336
	A Yin and Her Man	338
	Excerpts: From the Diary of Bu Yau Shu Cai	345
	Desire as the Gesture Between Us	351
	Fried Yams	355
	Onofre's Happy Romance	356
	From Inday	366
	The Lover	370
	The Orange	384
	Defection	386
	From Year of the Dog	393
	Night sweats	402
	Rain	412
	To women who sleep alone	419
	Pearl Diver	423
	Dream Journal	428
	From The Dodo Vaccine	431
	Live Life Empirically	438
	A Tale of Flesh in Three Parts	443
	Seeds of Betrayal	449
	From Come	456
	Chui Chai	462
	Contributors' Biographies	479
	Permissions	491