Saint Nobody

Contents

7 Contents I Disclaimer 15 Saint Nobody 17 Karyotype 21 In-patients 22 Fine Motor 23 Scar 24 Blight 26 Sample 28 Still Life with Fire Escape 30 Fluidity 31 Domestic Policy 32 Order 34 Iconography 35 Deconstruction 36 Home on the Pike 39 Cardinal 40 II Coke Bottle 45 Rolling Rock I 46 Rolling Rock II 47 Rolling Rock III 48 Daze of 1987 49 A Day’s Work 50 Venus of the Interstate 52 The Puzzle 54 Hands 55 End of the Urban Experiment 56 Breaking Camp 57 Letter to Boston 59 8 III Kindred 63 Deciding on Quandary 64 The Secret Spilled 65 Cloistered 66 Dinner with the Hugheses 67 A Borrowed Book 68 Feeding 69 “The feel of your mouth on my neck—” 71 This Milk-Weed Pod Your Head 72 Home Brew 73 IV Margins 77 Autumn Remonstration 78 A Physics 80 A Physick 82 Tonic 84 Election 85 Fantasy for Cello and Orchestra 86 Les Oiseaux Tristes 87 Four Nocturnes 88 Monday Night Contradance 90 Vespers 92 Keats’ Eyelashes 93 Monday Aubade 94 Friday Afternoon 95 Please Be Patient 96 After DiChirico’s The Uncertainty of the Poet 97 Revival 98 Strangely Tender 99 ...