A Wild Surmise

Index of Poems

239 Index of Poems A Mile Out of Town.................................................................... 49 A Packet Beating Like a Heart.................................................... 54 A Wild Surmise..........................................................................187 After Seeing the Hockney Retrospective................................... 203 After the Last Call Home ........................................................... 43 American Jisei.............................................................................232 And Having Broken into Blossom..............................................235 Another Poet Writes About Love................................................ 90 Artemis........................................................................................ 87 Artemis in Echo Park.................................................................. 79 Asking About You .................................................................... 129 Asking for an Incomplete ..........................................................110 At the Altar of the Peregrine..................................................... 194 Audacious ..................................................................................149 Big Dog Photo ......................................................................... 190 Cactus ......................................................................................... 91 Calling Upon the Saints Including Titanium ............................192 Changing the Oil ........................................................................ 94 Changing What We Mean.........................................................142 Dark ............................................................................................ 48 Dividing the Fields.......................................................................71 Driven to Meet You in Rainy Weather ....................................... 60 Entries: L.A. Log........................................................................ 62 Escucha, Mi Vida.......................................................................226 Exhalation................................................................................... 72 Fragments of a Grecian Urn .......................................................189 From Los Angeles Looking South .............................................144 Furnishing....................................................................................27 240 Hardscape..................................................................................150 I Live in the City of Los Angeles ................................................46 I Live Where I Live ....................................................................82 I Spent the Day with You ............................................................64 If There Were No Books............................................................ 163 Intro to Women’s Studies........................................................... 105 It Didn’t Seem Dangerous .........................................................204 La Brea ...................................................................................... 223 Latin from the Mass.................................................................. 121 Living Here Now........................................................................117 Looking Up at the Ceiling.........................................................200 Los Angeles................................................................................. 33 Los Angeles Is a Virgo............................................................... 118 Louganis....................................................................................130 Love Poem from Afar................................................................ 164 Memorize This........................................................................... 197 Minor Leagues ............................................................................32 Moon on the Porch...................................................................... 95 Mr. Twister................................................................................ 196 My Knees in a Love Poem........................................................... 39 My Love Wants to Park............................................................... 59 My Mothers............................................................................... 158 Not Disappearing ...................................................................... 172 Oh My Emotions These Days......................................................68 Oh, Dr. Surgeon........................................................................ 199 Passing....................................................................................... 146 Persephone and Demeter ........................................................... 195 241 Please Forgive Me ........................................................................36 Postcard..................................................................................... 126 Reading While Having a Sprained Back......................................37 Redeemed.................................................................................. 206 Sappho, You Must Have Had a Mother .....................................162 Selling My Mother’s House....................................................... 212 Shrine and Ashes .......................................................................218 Since You Asked.........................................................................217 Snow Pack Café........................................................................... 38 So the Teacher Jumped Up on the Desk.....................................166 Spitball...................................................................................... 234 Standing Up, Looking In............................................................ 73 Storing Things..............................................................................31 Student Evaluation of Intro to Women’s Studies........................107 Suite for Young Man Dying.......................................................136 The Arborist .............................................................................. 202 The Beach at Sunset................................................................... 124 The City Beneath the City........................................................... 84 The Concepts of Integrity and Closure In Poetry as I Believe They Relate to Sappho............................................96 The Day After Meeting Her ...................................................... 160 The Grackle on the Lawn ...........................................................151 The Last Breakup........................................................................214 The Living Fragments.................................................................153 The Motion Picture Retirement Home, Two East: What Is She Reading?........................................... 222 The Peahens................................................................................. 86 The Pope at 7:00 p.m.................................................................... 34 The Real Bears Have Gone North............................................... 80 The Singing School.................................................................... 154 242 The Summer She Died ............................................................... 198 The Test ..................................................................................... 108 The Valley of the Amazons .......................................................... 81 The Warring States Period .........................................................209 The Words “Begin Again”............................................................ 66 This Art, Your Life ....................................................................100 This Darknight Speed .................................................................. 52 This Next Attempt Will Be Meta-poetical.................................228 This Place Named for Califia .......................................................88 To Peter in Germany ..................................................................111 To Speak for Human Feelings ..................................................... 75 Toltecs..........................................................................................83 Torn Open ................................................................................. 132 True Love .................................................................................. 236 Tutelage ..................................................................................... 156 Up to Topanga.............................................................................89 Wáng Wéi Did Not Paint a Fire ................................................220 Water ........................................................................................... 74 What Does Death Want from Me?............................................ 231 What Is Being Forgotten .............................................................40 What It Was Like the Night Cary Grant Died............................92 What Marries You .....................................................................224 When Did a Self Begin? ............................................................ 174 Where I Come From ..................................................................141 Why I Call on Artemis, Not Aphrodite..................................... 157 Wild Mothers ..............................................................................99 Wind in Mytilene ...................................................................... 152 Wisdom or the Hungry Thing ..................................................... 56 Working Towards Sappho.......................................................... 168 This page intentionally left blank. 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