Pleasure Dome. Yusef Komunyakaa

At the Screen Door 309

       Moonshine 311

       Salt 312

       Changes; or, Reveries at a Window Overlooking a Country Road, with Two Women Talking Blues in the Kitchen 313

       Work 316

       Praising Dark Places 317

       A Good Memory 318

       Birds on a Powerline 328

       Fever 329

       Little Man Around the House 332

       Songs for My Father 333

       Thieves of Paradise

       Memory Cave 343

       Out There There Be Dragons 344

       The Song Thief 345

       Wet Nurse 346

       Ode to a Drum 347

       Eclogue at Daybreak 348

       Genealogy 349

       Kosmos 350

       Confluence 352

       Palimpsest 354

       Mumble Peg 364

       Ia Drang Valley 365

       Cenotaph 366

       The Trapper’s Bride 367

       Eclogue at Twilight 367

       The Tally 369

       Heroes of Waterloo 370

       Wokanmagulli 371

       Waratah 372

       New Gold Mountain 373

       White Lady 374

       Meditations on a Dingo 375

       Report from the Lucky Country 376

       In the Mirror 377

       The Piccolo 378

       John Says 379

       Corners of Night 380

       Messages 382

       Visitation 382

       Bennelong’s Blues 383

       Quatrains for Ishi 384

       The Glass Ark 388

       Nude Interrogation 393

       The Poplars 394

       Surgery 394

       Phantasmagoria 395

       A Summer Night in Hanoi 399

       A Reed Boat 400

       Buried Light 401

       The Hanoi Market 401

       Shrines 402

       Frontispiece 403

       Breasts 404

       The Deck 404

       Ghost Video 405

       Phantom Limbs 406

       Dream Animal 407

       Testimony 407

       Blessing the Animals 418

       Rhythm Method 420

       The Parrot Asylum 421

       The Thorn Merchant’s Daughter 422

       The Monkey House 423

       Dolphy’s Aviary 424

       Crack 425

       No-Good Blues 427

       Sandhog 430