Arts of a Cold Sun: POEMS

Contents

Contents One: Cold Sun True Stories about Color 3 At the Lifeboat Races 4 Speculation in Dark Air Smoking 5 Art of a Cold Sun 6 Anointing the Unprepared 7 Le Corps Bleu 8 At Les Deux Magots Restaurant 9 Hide and Seek 10 Elizabeth Goose in Autumn 11 South of Spain 12 Long Story Short 13 To the Dogs 14 Notes for the Interior Escape 15 The Rainy Season Arrives in Southern Kyushu 16 Clearances 17 Skibbereen Deeds 20 North Beach Sweet 22 Bugatti’s Zoo 25 The Unsung Song of Harry Duffy 27 Crawfordsville Confidential 29 The Seconds The Seconds 35 Codes toward an Incidental City In Praise of Invisibility 43 Chronicle of Choices 44 City without Archipelago 45 Tales of the Weather 46 Used News 47 Dispensations for an Afternoon Rain 48 Darkening Probabilities 49 Moon Snow 50 The Story of Minus 51 Marginal Extravaganzas 52 Homing 53 Facts about Unlucky Times 54 Opus Focus 55 Occupant 56 Unclaimed Freight 57 River through the City 58 At the Club Hula 59 Midnight Symphonies 60 High on the Flats 61 Holed Up in the Old Hotel 62 Apparitions, Approximations, Appearances 63 At the Corner Bar at the End of Idle Street 64 A Guide to Brief Encounters 65 Overnight 66 Metro Retro 67 An Oral History of the East Side 68 The Arrangements 69 Trespasses 70 Doubleheader: A Sonnet 71 Jackhammer Blues 72 Exhumations, Evictions, Evacuations 73 At the Bus Station 74 Love in the Solarium 75 Civil Spaces 76 Sidedoor 77 Lunch on a Steel Beam 78 Poltroons and Gimcracks 79 Manholes 80 Fanfare for a Cocktail 81 Cleaning the Statues 82 ...