Pleasure Dome. Yusef Komunyakaa

Corrigenda 83

       Copacetic

       False Leads 87

       Soliloquy: Man Talking to a Mirror 87

       The Way the Cards Fall 89

       Reflections 90

       Annabelle 90

       Faith Healer 91

       More Girl Than Boy 92

       April Fools’ Day 93

       Untitled Blues 94

       Jumping Bad Blues 95

       Initials on Aspens 96

       Family Tree 96

       Instructions for Building Straw Huts 99

       An Exchange Student Awaits the Arrival of an African Princess 99

       Back Then 100

       Blasphemy 101

       Lost Wax 102

       Safe Subjects 104

       Black String of Days 105

       Eleemosynary 106

       Speaking of Luck 107

       Villon/Leadbelly 108

       Borinken Blues 109

       Let’s Say 109

       Elegy for Thelonious 110

       Copacetic Mingus 111

       Letter to Bob Kaufman 112

       Woman, I Got the Blues 113

       Street Cool Clara 114

       Newport Beach, 1979 115

       Gloria’s Clues 115

       Charmed 116

       Captain Diable’s Receptionist 117

       The Cage Walker 118

       Addendum 119

       Epilogue to the Opera of Dead on Arrival 119

       By Proxy 120

       1931 121

       The Leper’s Bell 122

       Blues Chant Hoodoo Revival 122

       Toys in a Field

       Nothing Big 129

       Ambush 129

       Water Buffalo 130

       Monsoon Season 131

       Le Xuan, Beautiful Spring 132

       Toys in a Field 133

       Please 134

       Returning (1975) 135

       I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head

       Unnatural State of the Unicorn 139

       Lightshow 139

       Sorrow 140

       Touch-up Man 141

       How I See Things 142

       Insufficient Blue 143

       The Thorn Merchant 144

       The Thorn Merchant’s Right-Hand Man 145

       After the Heart’s Interrogation 146

       Happy-Go-Lucky’s Wolf Skull Dream Mask 146

       The Heart’s Graveyard Shift 147

       Hard Up 149

       Boy Wearing a Dead Man’s Clothes 149