Primitive Mentor

Contents

v COnTEnTS Dear Reader 1 1 What Form after Death 5 Disappearing Ink 6 Washing in Cold Water 7 Self Search 8 The Great Loneliness 10 Gruss 11 Look at Quintillions Ripen’d & Look at Quintillions Green 12 Mannerist 14 My Outlook on Life 16 Enter Fortinbras 17 Psalm 18 2 Flood Plain 21 Desert Ode 22 Liverwurst 24 Wheelchair Race 25 Revolutions Tend toward Orthodoxy 27 Gawker 29 From the Get-Go 31 Admissions Policy 33 Sex with Strangers 35 Poem on a Theme by Tony Hoagland 37 Force of Rabbit 39 Briar 42 3 You 47 Learning to Live with Bliss 48 Triage 50 v Fire Ode 51 Ash Ode 52 Lots of Questions 53 Earth Science Lab Partner 54 Private Waterfall 56 Lives of the Primitives 58 Pelt 60 Lives of the Orphans 61 Sparkler 63 An Orgasm Is a Spaceship 64 Our Kind of People 65 My Itty Void 67 Procession 68 4 Half Story Half-Life 73 The Hour Light Streams through the House 74 Scatteration 75 Acorn Hitting a Tin Roof 76 The Pure Intention of the Hornet 77 Today They Will Show Me the Homunculus 79 Like My Older Sister 81 Blue Limbo 83 Rose Prick 85 Oddly Folded Bird 86 Grave Tour 87 Exit Exam 89 **** Afterward 93 Acknowledgments 94 x Prmtve Mentor x ...