Pleasure Dome. Yusef Komunyakaa

Pay for Jody 225

       Sunset Threnody 226

       After the Fall 227

       Saigon Bar Girls, 1975 228

       Boat People 229

       Bui Doi, Dust of Life 230

       Missing in Action 231

       Losses 232

       Between Days 233

       Facing It 234

       February in Sydney

       Under the Harbour Bridge 239

       The Man Who Carries the Desert Around Inside Himself: For Wally 240

       Rocks Push 241

       The Plea 242

       When Loneliness Is a Man 244

       A Quality of Light 245

       Gerry’s Jazz 246

       Boxing Day 247

       Protection of Moveable Cultural Heritage 249

       A Delicate Conspiracy 250

       The Cops Call Him Charlie 251

       Frank’s Poem 251

       Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel 252

       February in Sydney 254

       Magic City

       Venus’s-flytraps 257

       The Whistle 258

       Playthings 261

       Yellow Dog Café 265

       Happiness 266

       Seasons Between Yes & No 267

       Glory 268

       April’s Anarchy 269

       The Millpond 270

       Immolatus 272

       Banking Potatoes 274

       The Smokehouse 274

       The Steel Plate 275

       Sunday Afternoons 277

       Looking for Choctaw 278

       Fleshing-out the Season 279

       Blackberries 280

       Yellowjackets 281

       Gristmill 282

       History Lessons 282

       Temples of Smoke 284

       Boys in Dresses 285

       Nude Tango 286

       Touch 287

       Sugar 288

       Albino 289

       Halloween, the Late Fifties 290

       Mismatched Shoes 292

       My Father’s Love Letters 293

       The Cooling Board 294

       Omen 295

       Believing in Iron 296

       Salomé 297

       Between Angels & Monsters 298

       Poetics of Paperwood 299

       Slam, Dunk, & Hook 300

       Sex, Magnolias, & Speed 301

       Knights of the White Camellia & Deacons of Defense 302

       Nocturne 304

       Butterfly-toed Shoes 304

       Neon Vernacular

       Fog Galleon 309