Pleasure Dome. Yusef Komunyakaa

Gift Horse 151

       The Music That Hurts 152

       When in Rome—Apologia 153

       The Thorn Merchant’s Wife 154

       The Thorn Merchant’s Mistress 155

       Somewhere Else 156

       After Summer Fell Apart 157

       Uncertainty in Blue 158

       The Brain to the Heart 160

       Audacity of the Lower Gods 161

       The Falling-Down Song 161

       Syzygy 162

       The Thorn Merchant’s Son 163

       I Apologize 163

       1984 164

       Dreambook Bestiary 168

       Two Cranial Murals 171

       Jonestown: More Eyes for Jadwiga’s Dream 172

       Landscape for the Disappeared 172

       Articulation & Class 174

       In the Labor Camp of Good Intentions 174

       Good Joe 174

       Making Out with the Dream-Shredding Machine 176

       In the Background of Silence 176

       Cinderella at Big Sur 177

       Born Pretty in a Poor Country 178

       Olympia 179

       “Everybody’s Reading Li Po” Silkscreened on a Purple T-Shirt 179

       For the Walking Dead 181

       Too Pretty for Serious Business 182

       Child’s Play 182

       Raw Data for an Unfinished Questionnaire 183

       The Beast & Burden: Seven Improvisations 184

       Dien Cai Dau

       Camouflaging the Chimera 191

       Tunnels 192

       Somewhere Near Phu Bai 193

       Starlight Scope Myopia 194

       Red Pagoda 195

       A Greenness Taller Than Gods 196

       The Dead at Quang Tri 197

       Hanoi Hannah 198

       Roll Call 199

       Fragging 199

       “You and I Are Disappearing” 200

       2527th Birthday of the Buddha 201

       Re-creating the Scene 202

       Night Muse & Mortar Round 204

       One More Loss to Count 204

       Sappers 206

       Nude Pictures 206

       We Never Know 207

       A Break from the Bush 208

       Seeing in the Dark 209

       Tu Do Street 209

       Communiqué 211

       The Edge 212

       Donut Dollies 213

       Prisoners 214

       Jungle Surrender 216

       Eyeball Television 217

       The One-legged Stool 218

       Short-timer’s Calendar 220

       Thanks 221

       To Have Danced with Death 222

       Report from the Skull’s Diorama 223

       Combat