Some of these poems first appeared in other publications, sometimes in other forms. Contents notes from ECIP table of contents.
Contents:
III. Hell feelings. Touching down. The unaccounted -- Evening news -- Walk slowly, don't stare -- Earthenware -- Sisyphus self -- Discipline -- Summer blackout -- Once -- Smoke screen -- Overdose -- Barbiturate talismania -- I'm keeping the wooden horse -- Practicing invisible -- Minor dogma -- [Hideous] Miraculous. [Yesterday I found myself awake] -- Translating poorly -- [In this one we aren't exactly drowning] [In this one I'm wearing a paper bag] -- [In this one you haven't left] -- [A swarm of neighborhood dogs] -- After you left -- [In this one the car still runs] -- [In this one you are taking the creek] -- [It must have been a Saturday] -- Human aviary -- [I am dreaming in this one. You wax] -- [Two men are playing chess in a park] -- Autobiographies -- [I've been carving my mug shot] -- Backyard mirage therapy [That last month when we broke out] -- [I went on a date with a man] -- Elegiac -- River rat -- [I've stopped believing in death] -- [This the one holding a mug over] -- Longest division -- III. Hell feelings. Hypnosis -- Buffalo jump -- Whale song -- Bad summon -- The smoke detector where your heart should be -- Temp/oral -- Axis -- My friends -- Eventualities -- What dying was like -- Growing down -- Smoke tones -- Another language -- My America -- Touching down.
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