Love on the Streets: Selected and New Poems

Contents

• ix contentS from Hard Country (1982) Signal Hill 3 I Was Born Coming to the Sea 5 Father 7 L.A. Blonde 10 Love Song for a Man Whose Mother Killed Herself 12 from Visions of a Daughter of Albion 1. Land of Heart’s Desire 13 My Mother Is a Poem I Will Never Write 15 Kerouac and Monroe on Kalaloch 16 Crazy Horse 22 Infant Found Alive at Wounded Knee 25 Appalachian Song 27 from Ramon: The Colorado 12. Mojave 28 from PsyCHe drives tHe Coast (1990) Outlaw 31 Concert 40 The Stations of the Cross 41 from The Orpheus Poems Electric Violin 43 Eros 44 Beneath the World: Two Poems to the Child Never to be Born 45 from Self from Part I. The Journal of Albion Moonlight 10. The Meaning of No Self 48 from Part II. Psyche Drives the Coast 2. “It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing” 49 • x 3. Sleep: The I in Language 49 5. The God Comes Out of Your Mouth, California 50 from Hunger from Hunger II The World and Francis Hughes 52 from Hunger III: The Days Day Eleven: Hunger Songs 54 from Hunger IV End Hunger 59 Ground Zero 60 from soutH ameriCa mi Hija (1992) from I. The Road to Quito from 1. Descent: La Violencia 71 from III. The Road to Lima 1. Pan American a. They Drive with Their Horns 72 from IV. Lima from 2. Night: Buried America c. Love Song to Strong Wind, Amerrique 74 from V. The Road to Cuzco from 6: Nuestro Che: The Monroe Doctrine 77 from VII. The Heights of Macchu Picchu 2. Alturas de Macchu Picchu c. I ask you . . . show me . . . allow me . . . to . . . touch el hombre 79 from Body and soul (2000) Santas 83 Marrying Ramon at Thirteen 85 Under the Steering Wheel 86 Bride 88 Son 90 Arrested Love 96 • xi My Brother’s Keeper 98 As We Make Love I See Her Nez Perce Face on Main Street Cursing Me 101 Answer 102 Eagle 104 Two Weeks 105 War: Old Best Friend 106 Twelve Weeks 108 The War 110 The Poet Laureate of Vietnam 112 Keintpoos 113 The Border 115 Marriage 116 Face 117 Psyche between Two Palms in San Diego 118 The Geography of My Soul, 2 121 Deer 122 Whales 124 How to Make Love to a Man 125 Cojo at the Millennium 127 Color of Love 129 The Millennium: Free Him 131 new PoemS (2000–2008) Hip Hop Hopi Hope 135 Hitchhiking with Walt Whitman 137 Before the Fire 139 January 1, 2000, 3 a.m., the Caspar Headlands 143 Bombing Baghdad Again 145 Terror 147 Be Ahead of All Parting 148 • xii Primitive 149 100 Memories I Don’t Remember 151 Memory Is Pictures Inside You 154 Homeless on Good Friday 155 Love in the Ruins 156 Sally Hemings’s Dress 158 Loving Che Again 159 Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo Bay 160 Prayer 162 Notes 163 Acknowledgments 167 ...