Table of Contents

 

THE INTRODUCTION

 

Preface

Acknowledgements

Credits

About the Author

Foreward

 

THE POEMS

 

Affair: A Five-Poem Suite

Points of View

Surface Tension

Concerto

Wait

Recession

Annular Eclipse

Never Fails

Madonna and Child

Healers

The Clinic

Millie

Take Time

Desertion and Death

The Meaning of Life

We Don’t Think About These Things

Golf Courses and Hair

He’s Not Heavy

Post-Christmas Haiku

Impossibilities

What’s Important?

there’s something about . . .

Finality

To a Friend

Cellular Phones

The Way Things Are

(Sch)ism

Post Mortem: Frances Lent

Pity

On Nationalism

Hospital High-Tech

Food Mines

The Village

Where It’s At

Face  It

Cinco de Mayo Haiku

Click-Clack