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Contents: Slowdown 3; Gunbroke 4; Some Drowned Archer 5; The Country West 6; All You Ploughboys 8; The Woods in Concord 10; Naughty Boys Well and Truly Punished 12; Hometown Courage 14; A Costume for Crossing the Rainbow Bridge 16; Things Unso 18; The Push 19; Paracosmics 23; Pubescence 25; The Better Kids 26; First Responder 27; Love Song for Another Boy 29; The Marchers 30; Good Form 31; Trisomic Dialogue 33; Thievery 35; Only 37; Bronx Flyweight Spars 38; The Fire Door 39; Chronophrenia 43; No One Is Keeping You Here 59; Dust Bowl 61; First Sermon 62; Red Shirts and No Boots 63; Hy-Vee 64; The Dock Lights at Cattlepurse in the Fall 65; South 67; Wrecker 68; Ekphrasis 70; Transit 71; A God for October 72; Hello the House 73; Samson at the Pillar 74; Poem for Battered Man 76; Acknowledgments 79