Contents
From - Plums, Stones, Kisses & Hooks (1981)
Installing the Bees
Oranges
One Hook
After Being Paralyzed from the Neck Down for Twenty Years, Mr. Wallace Gets a Chin-Operated Motorized Wheelchair
Prayer for Flowers
Trout
From - Tunes for Bears to Dance To (1983)
Grandmother Grace
The Belly Dancer in the Nursing Home
The Assistant Professor’s Nightmare
A Hot Property
“You Can’t Write a Poem about McDonald’s”
Picture of Molly, Age 4
1001 Nights
The Facts of Life
From - People and Dog in the Sun (1987)
The Nude Gardener
This Night
At Chet’s Feed & Seed
Poem Written Mostly by Fourth Graders
Matheny
Nightline: An Interview with the General
People and Dog in the Sun
From - The Makings of Happiness (1991)
Early Brass
Bluegills
Fresh Oysters & Beer
Off the Record
Fan Mail
The Hell Mural: Panel I
Building an Outhouse
In the Amish Bakery
The Fat of the Land
From - Time’s Fancy (1994)
The Life Next at Hand
Why I Am Not a Nudist
A Valentine
The Story
The Swing
Hardware
Pantoum: The Sturdy of Worry
Why God Permits Evil
Ballade of the Humpback Whales
Teachers: A Primer
In the Cards
Grandfather, His Book
From - The Uses of Adversity (1998)
The Friday Night Fights
Fielding
Tonight’s Lecture: The Effects of Head Wounds on Foot Soldiers, A Case Study
Panties
The Bad Sonnet
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
Les poètes célèbres
The McPoem
Waxworms
Skin
An Essay on Love
Man Sleeping
Long for This World: New Poems
Local Hero
The Old West
Redundancies
Literature in the 21st Century
Gas
How Laughter
General Fuckup
Failed Poems
Alas, Thomas Midgley
Bird Brain
The Truth
The Physical
No Deal
Claustrophobia
The Face of God
Shoes
Photo from Liberia
Sayonara
The Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Hey Buddy, Need a Lift?
On Prozac
SmackDown!
In the Virgin Islands
Lucky
Pleasure
Blessings
Acknowledgments