Machine derived contents note: Contents -- 2 -- Barbara Anderson Deuce: 12:23 a.m. 3 -- I Man in a Window 6 -- Ralph Angel The River Has No Hair to Hold Onto 78 -- Shadow Play -- Breaking and Entering 9 -- Jimmy Santiago Baca I Am Here l -- Main Character 3 -- Green Chile 14 -- Stephen Berg Self-Portrait at Six 17 -- And the Scream 18 -- Linda Bierds Off the Aleutian Chain 20 -- For the Sake of Retrieval -- The Stillness, The Dancing 22 -- Lorna Dee Cervantes Raisins 23 -- From the Bus to E.L. at Atascadero 26 -- State Hospital -- David Clewell We Never Close 28 -- Peter Cooley Holy Family: Audubon Zoo, 34 -- New Orleans -- The Zouave 35 -- Self-Portrait as Van Gogh 36 -- The History of Poetry 37 -- Mark Cox Archaic Torso of My Uncle Phil 3378 -- Geese -- Poem for the Name Mary 39 -- In This His Suit 40 -- The Word 40 -- Kate Daniels Christmas Party 4423 -- Bathing -- For Miklos Radnoti: 1909-1944 43 -- Derricotte Blackbottom -- Christmas Eve: My Mother Dressing -- The Minks -- On the Turning Up of Unidentified -- Black Female Corpses -- 45 -- 46 -- 47 -- 48 -- Deborah Digges Rock, Scissors, Paper 49 -- Stephen Dobyns Desire 53 -- Shaving 55 -- Tomatoes 57 -- Mark Doty Adonis Theater 58 -- Heaven 60 -- Night Ferry 62 -- a Dove Elevator Man, 1949 63 -- Used 64 -- Sonnet in Primary Colors 65 -- Persephone, Falling 65 -- Persephone Underground 65 -- Cameos 66 -- Stephen -- Dunn -- Radio Sky -- Trakl -- The Diatribe of the Kite -- The Elegy for Integral Domains -- The Apocrypha of Jacques Derrida 71 -- 67 -- 68 -- 69 -- 70 -- The Routine Things Around the House 72 -- At the Smithville Methodist Church 73 -- He/She -- 75 -- Lynn Emanuel Frying Trout while Drunk 76 -- When Father Decided He Did Not 77 -- Love Her Anymore -- On Waking after Dreaming of Raoul 78 -- Of Your Father's Indiscretions and the 79 -- Train to California -- Inspiration 79 -- Blond Bombshell 80 -- John Engman Mushroom Clouds 81 -- Atlantis 82 -- Another Word for Blue 82 -- Staff 83 -- One Minute of Night Sky 84 -- Alice Fulton Cherry Bombs 85 -- Powers Of Congress 88 -- Self-Storage 89 -- Tess Gallagher Each Bird Walking 91 -- Strange Thanksgiving 93 -- Red Poppy 94 -- Now That I Am Never Alone 94 -- After the Chinese 95 -- Louise Gluck Brown Circle 95 -- Paradise 96 -- Widows 97 -- Lullaby 98 -- Amazons 99 -- Albert Goldbarth How the World Works: an essay 100 -- The Nile 102 -- Beckian Fritz Goldberg The Possibilities 107 -- Monsoon 108 -- In the Middle of Things, Begin log -- To a Girl Writing Her Father's Death 110 -- In the Badlands of Desire 111 -- Barry Goldensohn The Marrano 112 -- American Innocents, Oberlin, Ohio, 113 -- 1954 -- Honeymoon 115 -- Post Mortem as Angels 116 -- Jorie Graham Salmon 116 -- What the End Is For 118 -- Mark Halliday Reality U.S.A. 120 -- Population 123 -- Seventh Avenue 124 -- Joy Harjo Santa Fe 125 -- Blue Elliptic 126 -- Petroglyph 127 -- Grace 128 -- Robert Hass Human Wishes 129 -- Vintage 130 -- A Story about the Body 131 -- Privilege of Being 131 -- William Hathaway A Poem in Response to Doom 133 -- Wan Hope 135 -- Edward Hirsch After the Last Practice 138 -- Art Pepper 140 -- Tony Hoagland One Season 142 -- Sweet Ruin 143 -- Poem for Men Only 145 -- Jonathan Holden The Wisdom Tooth 147 -- Against Paradise 148 -- Tumbleweed 151 -- Garrett Hongo The Legend 152 -- Four Chinatown Figures 153 -- The Underworld 154 -- Marie Howe The Split -- Without Devotion -- Part of Eve's Discussion -- Death, the Last Visit -- 156 -- 58 -- 59 -- 59 -- Lynda Hull Love Song During Riot with Many 160 -- Voices: Newark, 1967 -- Frugal Repasts 162 -- Shore Leave 163 -- Terry Hummer Austerity in Vermont 165 -- Mississippi 1955 Confessional 166 -- A Heart Attack in the Country 167 -- Spring Comes to Mid-Ohio in a Holy 168 -- Shower of Stars -- Cynthia Huntington Rhapsody 169 -- The Hackeysack Players 170 -- Breaking 172 -- Party 173 -- Richard Jackson Homeric 174 -- A Violation 176 -- The Angels of 1912 and 1972 178 -- Mark Jarman Ground Swell 179 -- The Black Riviera 181 -- The Shrine and the Burning Wheel 182 -- Richard Jones The Bell -- The Mechanic -- The Hearing Aid -- Certain People -- The Birds -- Leaving Town after the Funeral -- Wan Chu's Wife in Bed -- Rodney Jones Mule -- Caught -- The Weepers -- 184 -- 85 -- 85 -- 186 -- ,87 -- 87 -- 88 -- 189 -- 191 -- 92 -- Richard Katrovas A Dog and a Boy 194 -- The Beating 195 -- The Public Mirror 196 -- My Friends the Pigeons 197 -- Brigit Pegeen Kelly Young Wife's Lament 198 -- Those Who Wrestle with the Angel 199 -- for Us -- Wild Turkeys: The Dignity of the 200 -- Damned -- Silver Lake 202 -- Yusef Komunyakaa Venus's-flytraps 203 -- Sunday Afternoons 205 -- Blackberries 206 -- Temples of Smoke 206 -- My Father's Loveletters 207 -- Sydney Lea Museum 208 -- Prayer for the Little City 210 -- Li-Young Lee The Cleaving 212 -- David Lehman Spontaneous Combustion 219 -- Operation Memory 220 -- Perfidia 221 -- Fear 221 -- Enigma Variations 222 -- Larry Levis The Widening Spell of the Leaves 224 -- Robert Long Have a Nice Day 229 -- What Happens 230 -- Saying One Thing 231 -- Earth to Tell of the Beasts 317 -- Later History 318 -- Pattiann Rogers The Hummingbird: A Seduction 319 -- The Next Story 320 -- The Power of Toads 321 -- Geocentric 322 -- Michael Ryan Not the End of the World 323 -- TV Room at the Children's Hospice 325 -- Switchblade 326 -- Ira Sadoff Nazis 328 -- At the Half Note Cafe 329 -- The Bath 331 -- David St. John Terraces of Rain 332 -- I Know 333 -- Leap of Faith 333 -- Wavelength 334 -- Meridian 335 -- Sherod Santos Inspiration 336 -- Nineteen Fifty-five 337 -- The Air Base at Chateauroux, France 339 -- Philip Schultz The Quality 340 -- For My Mother 341 -- Pumpernickel . 342 -- Ode 342 -- The Answering Machine 343 -- Tim Seibles Wind 344 -- Trying for Fire 345 -- For Brothers Everywhere 347 -- Dave Smith Championship Fight 348 -- A Quilt in the Bennington College 349 -- Library -- Pulling a Pig's Tail 350 -- Cuba Night 352 -- Marcia Southwick Brothers 353 -- The Rain's Marriage 354 -- Horse on the Wall 355 -- Child, Invisible Fire 356 -- Elizabeth Spires Sunday Afternoon at Fulham Palace 357 -- Mutoscope 360 -- Maura Stanton The Grocery Store 362 -- Living Apart 363 -- A Portrait by Bronzino 364 -- Gerald Stern The Founder 33687 -- The Bull-roarer 369 -- Susan Stewart The Gypsy 371 -- Mouth of the Wolf 374 -- The Memory Cabinet of Mrs. K. 1960 375 -- Ruth Stone Where I Came From 376 -- Curtains 376 -- Happiness 377 -- Turn Your Eyes Away 378 -- Chase Twichell The Shades of Grand Central 379 -- Six Belons 380 -- The Condom Tree 381 -- Chanel No. 5 382 -- Leslie Ullman Dawn Feeding 383 -- Desire 384 -- Mauve 385 -- Michael Van Meat 388 -- Walleghen The Age of Reason 390 -- Blue Tango 391 -- Marilyn Nelson Balance 393 -- Waniek Chosen 393 -- Star-fix 394 -- Lonely Eagles 396 -- Belle Waring When a Beautiful Woman Gets on the 398 -- Jutiapa Bus -- Baby Random 399 -- Back to Catfish 399 -- Breeze in Translation 401 -- Bruce Weigl The Black Hose 402 -- What Saves Us 403 -- Anna's Grace 404 -- The Confusion of Planes We Must 405 -- Wander in Sleep -- Meditation at Pearl Street 405 -- They Name Heaven 406 -- Roger Weingarten Father Hunger and Son 407 -- From the Temple of Longing 408 -- Four Seasons of His Discontent 409 -- Jungle Gliders 410 -- Dara Wier Holidays 412 -- Old-fashioned 414 -- The Flood 415 -- David Wojahn The Assassination of John Lennon as 417 -- Depicted by the Madame Tussaud -- Wax Museum, Niagara Falls, -- Ontario, 1987 -- Matins: James Brown and His Fabulous 417 -- Flames Tour the South, 1958 -- White Lanterns 418 -- C. D. Wright Our Dust 42 -- Kings' Daughters, Home for Unwed 423 -- Mothers, 1948 -- Scratch Music 424 -- More Blues and the Abstract Truth 425 -- Franz Wright Certain Tall Buildings 426 -- The Needle: For a Friend Who 427 -- Disappeared -- Entry in an Unknown Hand 428 -- Elegy: Breece D'J Pancake 429 -- Dean Young Storms 430 -- Threshold 431 -- Other Obit 432 -- Lace 433.