Contents
One
Eastern Winter Time
Evenings Homesick for the Absolute
Regression Analysis
95% of Love Is Half of What You Want
Moon Amour
Hermetically Sealed
Homage to John Ashbery
The Sexual, as Opposed to What
Unrequited Dialogue by Moonlight
Amo, Amas, Amat
Getting It Straight
Spoils
Downloading the Meltdown
Profile in a Shadow Box
Not Dead but Deading
Exhaustion
Solving for the Unknown
Mythos of Honey and Brine
Two
Category Error
Getting Down with the Mofos
Prayer from the Back Pew
No, and I Wouldn’t Name My Cat Cleopatra, Either
Idling through Rinehart’s Brain
Group Therapy for the Bards
Dating Cassandra
Petitions to the Tenderloin
Midnight at the Club Imaginaire
Mad in Manhattan
Fabulous, Just Fabulous
Pitching Woo
Homage to Mr. Bones
Propertius at the Moonlight Lounge and Patio
Toast
Coupling on the Edge of Entropy
Variations without a Theme
Three
À Contrecoeur
Variations in Vertigo
Private Conversations in Public Places
Low Tide on the Sunset Coast
Fantasia on a Phrase from Don DeLillo
It’s Always Warmer by the Fire, When the Wind Blows Cold
Narcissus as Is
And in the Afternoons I Botanized
Zero with an Arrow, Zero with a Cross
First Night 2000
Anecdotal Evidence
Son et Lumiere
Spring Offensive
Elegant Gathering in the Apricot Garden
After the Snows
In Another Life
Ab Ovo
Solo in the Skeleton Key
Acknowledgments