• Foreword
• Imago
• Poem for My Navel
• Imagined Love Poem for My Mother from My Father
• The Wedding Photograph
• Watermelon
• My Grandmother, in Increments
• Two Elegies
• The Bringers of Bread
• Childhood Elegy
• The Sow
• Bat Hunting
• Kite Season
• Blood Thirst
• Brother
• Shoe Box in Early Summer
• Nocturnal
• Sleeping Together
• The Circumcision
• The Scheme of Beauty
• Desert Postcards
• Typhoon
• Fetching My Father
• The Eye of the Wound
• Killing a Chicken
• Faith Healer
• Ode to My Mother's Hair
• Departure: July 30, 1984
• The Immigrants' Son • Alaska
• The Red Sweater
• My Father in the Night
• The Socks
• Men with Breasts
• This Face
• Visiting the Manongs in a Convalescent Home
• in Delano
• California Beaches
• First Cigarette
• Little Blackbird
• Three Muses
• Sleep