Ameriscopia

Contents

CONTENTS I I Wanted to Say Hello to the Salseros but My Hair Was a Mess / 5 Sutra / 9 Waiting Outside the Cafe / 10 Apartment 5D / 13 Temporality at 5 am / 14 The Circle at One End / 16 The Necessariest / 18 Father Song / 21 Fixative / 22 Moth / 24 Water / 25 II Father to Father / 29 A Minotaur Sleeps on Shelter Island / 31 E.G. as I.E. / 34 One Wave Walking to Four Phases of the Moon / 35 Neptune’s Elegia / 36 The Vase of the Universe / 37 Ellabyrinth / 40 Air is Sham for Light / 41 Song of the Red Lamb / 43 Viva La Viva / 44 Ode / 46 This Is Not the Conversation That I Started the Conversation With / 47 A Season of Beens / 50 I Am Trying to Perfect My Assént / 51 III Puerto Rican Astronaut / 55 Not So Fast Food / 56 Swerver Says Sweeeee / 60 Three Spots under the Shade / 61 Skygrass / 63 Infinity Song / 64 Bit by Bite / 65 Under Venus’s Hair / 66 A Story for America / 67 Moroccan Highway / 69 Rinse Cycle / 71 Essaouira / 72 When Does the Game Begin / 73 Migration / 74 IV Coney Island 1969 / 77 Birthday Present; Birthday Boy / 80 And in Trying / 81 Terra Quad / 82 Waiting Young with Nothing There / 86 I Saw You Empire State Building / 87 Me No Habla Spic / 88 Territory / 95 Acknowledgments / 97 A M E R I S C O P I A ...