The Yearning Feed

CONTENTS

CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix The Interview 1 I The Yearning Feed 5 The Desert Series 6 Madre 13 The Hay Bales 14 II Homeland Security 21 The Nods: A Heavy Loop Sonnet 22 Cherub Cherubim 23 How to Live with Rudy 24 Poem 36 The Sweats 37 The Stoners 40 The Lecture 42 The Naming 47 Mona’s Manner 48 III The Xoco Letters 55 IV Psalm 95 The Fences 96 Phantom Limb 100 Variable Feet 101 The Yearning Feed 102 You Say I Look Like Gollum from Lord of the Rings 103 The Yearning Feed 104 The Boo Report 105 The Towels 106 V 1984 111 Notes on the Poems 121 viii ...