Pleasure Dome. Yusef Komunyakaa

They Say in Yellow Jacket 37

       When Men Can’t Trust Hands with Wood 38

       Birthday Song 38

       Legacy 39

       Eye Witness 39

       Unnatural Deaths 40

       A Different Story 40

       One-Breath Song 41

       Frontal Lobe Postscript 41

       Sagittarius Approaching Thirty-Five 42

       Cubism 42

       Insinuations 43

       Loneliness 43

       Dedications & Other Darkhorses

       Returning the Borrowed Road 47

       Chair Gallows 47

       Allegorical Seduction 48

       Under House Arrest 49

       Translating Footsteps 49

       Urban Renewal 50

       Magpies 51

       The Tongue Is 52

       Ten Speeds 52

       (E)Motion 53

       Observatory 54

       Lost in the Bonewheel Factory

       Looking a Mad Dog Dead in the Eyes 57

       Floor Plans 57

       Tour Guide 58

       Sitting in a Rocking Chair, Going Blind 59

       Pushing in All the Buttons 60

       Confessing My Ignorance 60

       1938 61

       S & M 62

       Stepfather: A Girl’s Song 62

       Stepmother: A Boy’s Song 63

       No Love in This House 64

       High on Sadness 64

       Sunbather 65

       Apprenticeship 66

       Light on the Subject 66

       Punchdrunk 67

       Vigilante 68

       Nothing to Do with Janice Drake 68

       Reconstructing a Crime 69

       Two 70

       Beg Song 71

       Death Threat Note 72

       Child Stealer 72

       A Poet Whose Photo Never Grows Old 73

       Poetics 74

       Imagination 75

       Ghost Chant, et alii 76

       Passions 77

       The Dog Act 79

       For You, Sweetheart, I’ll Sell Plutonium Reactors 80

       Feet Nailed to the Floor 81

       The Nazi Doll 82

       Breaking Camp 82