Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems

Neon Vernacular
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
New Poems
	Fog Galleon
	At the Screen Door
	Moonshine
	Salt
	Changes; or, Reveries at a Window Overlooking a Country Road, with Two Women Talking Blues in the Kitchen
	Work
	Praising Dark Places
	A Good Memory
	Birds on a Powerline
	Fever
	Little Man Around the House
	Songs for My Father
from Dedications & Other Darkhorses
	The Tongue Is
	Chair Gallows
	Translating Footsteps
from Lost in the Bonewheel Factory
	Looking a Mad Dog Dead in the Eyes
	1938
	Stepfather: A Girl's Song
	Apprenticeship
	Light on the Subject
	Beg Song
	Passions
	The Dog Act
	For You, Sweetheart, I'll Sell Plutonium Reactors
	The Nazi Doll
	Corrigenda
from Copacetic
	False Leads
	Soliloquy: Man Talking to a Mirror
	The Way the Cards Fall
	Annabelle
	Faith Healer
	More Girl Than Boy
	April Fools' Day
	Untitled Blues
	Back Then
	Blasphemy
	Safe Subjects
	Black String of Days
	Villon / Leadbelly
	Elegy for Thelonious
	Copacetic Mingus
	Letter to Bob Kaufman
	Woman, I Got the Blues
	Newport Beach, 1979
	Gloria's Clues
	Charmed
	The Cage Walker
	Addendum
	Epilogue to the Opera of Dead on Arrival
	Blues Chant Hoodoo Revival
from I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head
	Unnatural State of the Unicorn
	Touch-up Man
	How I See Things
	The Thorn Merchant
	The Thorn Merchant's Right-Hand Man
	The Heart's Graveyard Shift
	Boy Wearing a Dead Man's Clothes
	The Music That Hurts
	When in Rome—Apologia
	The Thorn Merchant's Wife
	The Thorn Merchant's Mistress
	After Summer Fell Apart
	The Brain to the Heart
	Audacity of the Lower Gods
	The Falling-Down Song
	The Thorn Merchant's Son
	I Apologize
	1984
	Dreambook Bestiary
	Jonestown: More Eyes for Jadwiga's Dream
	Landscape for the Disappeared
	Good Joe
	In the Background of Silence
	For the Walking Dead
	Child's Play
	The Beast & Burden: Seven Improvisations
from Toys in a Field
	Ambush
	Monsoon Season
	Water Buffalo
	Le Xuan, Beautiful Spring
	Please
from Dien Cai Dau
	Camouflaging the Chimera
	Tunnels
	Starlight Scope Myopia
	Hanoi Hannah
	"You and I Are Disappearing"
	Re-creating the Scene
	We Never Know
	A Break from the Bush
	Tu Do Street
	Communiqué
	Prisoners
	Jungle Surrender
	Thanks
	To Have Danced with Death
	Report from the Skull's Diorama
	Boat People
	Missing in Action
	Facing It
from February in Sydney
	The Plea
	The Man Who Carries the Desert Around Inside Himself: For Wally
	Rocks Push
	When Loneliness Is A Man
	A Quality of Light
	Gerry's Jazz
	Boxing Day
	Protection of Movable Cultural Heritage
	Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel
	February in Sydney