Red Sugar

Contents

C O N T E N T S —1 to the cracked code and the inside job I Saw One of Blake’s Angels 3 Lip 6 —2 Make it Beautiful Skinning It 9 I’ll Write the Girl 10 Prison Sex 11 To the Well-Meaning 12 Shooter 14 Flurry 15 Red Sugar 16 —3 After Being Fired from the All-Night Greek Diner The Phenomenology of Sex 21 American Night 22 In Helena 23 When Foucault Entered the Body 25 The Day I Stripped 27 Skeet Shooting Out West 28 Cave Music—Comet, Montana 29 —4 I woke in the night Hitchhike 35 Stray 38 Beatty Fm:Layout 1 2/4/08 6:05 PM Page v The Long White 39 The Arrangements 41 Luck Was the Father 43 Long White Sky 44 Speculator Mine Disaster Butte, Montana, 1917 46 Procession 48 —5 Red Song Serum 51 A Necessary Waist: Plath Grows Thinner Reading Stein 56 —6 Love Poem w/Strat #2 A Vegas Thing 59 After 60 Dreaming Door 61 The Punch 62 Love Poem w/Strat 64 —7 after the narrowing, the map Daughter of Blue Lake 69 Shower w/notebook 69 Sitting Nude 72 Notes 75 Acknowledgments 77 Beatty Fm:Layout 1 2/4/08 6:05 PM Page vi ...