• Author’s Note
• from Love Poems • "2/? Saturday”
• Friday Midnight Exactly
• Cold Poem
• I Hope I’m Not Here Next Year
• from 165 Meeting House Lane
• 1.
• 4.
• 15.
• 22.
• Dear Dark Continent
• Incidentals in the Day World
• Your Dailiness
• But He Says I Misunderstood
• from Songs for the Unborn Second Baby
• from I
• “Alice ordered me to be made”
• The Virtue of Uncreatedness • Endless Day
• 30th Birthday
• January
• How Spring Comes
• Little Egypt
• Sonnet • A California Girlhood
• Poem (“St. Mark’s Place caught at night in hot summer,”)
• When I Was Alive • After Tsang Chih • Today
• You • The Goddess Who Created This Passing World • Untitled
• “If she says that she’s the goddess Fortune”
• The World, All That Live & All That Occur • Bus Stop • Jack Would Speak Through the Imperfect Medium of Alice
• The Locket
• September’s Book
• A True Account of Talking to Judy Holiday, October 13
• Poem (“You hear that heroic big land music?”)
• The Prophet • Desert for All of Music to Take Place
• Untitled (“Clouds, big ones oh it’s”)
• Flowers of the Foothills & Mountain Valleys
• World’s Bliss
• Waltzing Matilda • Untitled (“All my life,”) • Postcards • White Evening Primrose
• Memorial Day
• Margaret and Dusty
• La Mort • Congratulating Wedge • The Ten Best Issues of Comic Books
• So Much • Poem (“Why do I want to tell it”)
• Love,
• It Would • Weekend Weather
• At Night the States
• from Parts of a Wedding • “Corpus Sagrada”
• “in this Paradise” • I the People • “in the dark I” • “More important than having been born is your city” • from Beginning with a Stain • “Beginning with a stain, as the Universe did perhaps” • “I will never not make a sound not have made a sound”
• “Some people refuse to remember, & I” • “Against all agony a bunch of flowers in the chest” • “born in beauty born a loved one, before history”
• “They say something ruinous & tragic happened soon after” • “Speaking firstly forever”
• “You haven’t saved me any time” • ‘What does she think?’
• Homer’s Art • Mother Mask
• White Phosphorus
• from The Descent of Alette - [from Book One]
• “One day, I awoke” “& found myself on” •  “There was a woman” “in a station” • “We couldn’t find” “our fathers—” • “A mother” “& child” • “When I was born,” “I was born now” • “I once” “found an exit” • “A car” “awash with blood”
• “I stood again” “on the platform”
• [from Book Three]
• “‘It’s time to go,’ he said” “‘Go where?’” • “As I stared down” “into the black lake”
• “The horizontal” “black void” • “Talons tore me,” “tore my flesh” • “When I awoke I” “was in darkness” • “‘We will be silent” “& wait’” • “I looked into the light” “directly” • from Close to Me & Closer . . . (The Language of Heaven) • “I have to . . . talk to you. I have to tell you . . .” • “I sit mute Nothing mutely”
• “They gave me, it seemed to me, an Initiation” • “Why do we make” • “When I say to you—I, almost, transfer a shape” • “In eternity There is no story” • “I’m . . . interested in, what of me there is . . . here.” • “I’m going to tell you . . . a story.” • “I don’t have to” • from Désamère - [from Amère and Desnos] • ‘I dream,’ says dead desert Desnos” • “‘See this piece of amber?’ Amère says to Brother” • “Desnos says, ‘I dream I don’t die”
• [from Desert Poems]
• I
• II
• III
• from Mysteries of Small Houses • Would Want to Be in My Wildlife • One of the Longest Times • As Good as Anything • Choosing Styles—1972 • I Must Have Called and So He Comes • The Trouble with You Girls • Hematite Heirloom Lives On (Maybe December 1980) • Mid-80’s • Sept 17/Aug 29, '88
• 1992
• Lady Poverty • from Disobedience • Circorpse • Help Me Corpus Sagrada • The Islanders Remember That There Are no Women and no Men
• Red Fish • Enuma Elish • from Reason and Other Women • Amid These Words I Can Know • Parable of Christian • Moses and the Burning Bush
• Jone Jonah
• Leaves • Grave of Light • Where Leftover Misery Goes • from Benediction • City • Love • Iphigenia
• from Alma, or The Dead Women • Radical Feminist • Beloved Earth Restrain Them • Discredited • Oath • And Who Is Crying
• Cherokee • Decomposition • Ballad • from In the Pines
• 14 • from Songs and Stories of the Ghouls
• “There was power in that room. I saw” • “The ghoul-girl. There was one to care for” • “What she reports against you isn’t” • “The city I founded I will found again” • “What were you doing when I thought you were dead” • “If you meet me here I was Lady” • “Walking away turns to look over shoulder” • “Black sequins compression” • “I stand here in whose eyes” • “Woman with antlers, deer-headed antlered woman”
• “If there’s change you put it into this sculpture’s slot" • “Justice may appear in the”
• “No world is intact” • List of Poems by Titles of First Publication • Index of Titles and First Lines