My father calls me Wolf.
He says that I will see things other people will not see
at night...

from ‘Birdie Africa’

from A Hunger (1988)

Domestic Mysticism   
Birdie Africa   
Evolution   
Real Life   
Autobiography   
October Seventh, Nineteen Eighty-Three   
The Future as a Cow   
Edward VI on the Seventh Day   
Jessica, from the Well   
Hitchcock Blue   
Kid Flash   
Heartbeat   
Danse Macabre   
What the Whales Sound Like in Manhattan   
The Beginning of the Beginning   
In a Landlocked Time   
Lucie & Her Sisters   
Elective Mutes   
I Wish You Love   
Ten Years Apprenticeship in Fantasy   
And So Long, I’ve Had You Fame   
After the Grand Perhaps   


from The Master Letters (1995)

A Preamble to The Master Letters   
Carrowmore   
Also, None Among Us Has Seen God   
Rome Beauty   
Unholy   
A Brief History of Asylum   
The Supernatural Is Only the Natural, Disclosed   
Obsession, Compulsion   
Carnivorous   
To a Strange Fashion of Forsaking   
Did Not Come Back   
And You Know That I Know Milord That You Know   
The October Horse   
Gratitude   
Dull Weather   
From the Proscenium   
Radiating Naïveté   
Fair Copy from a Fair World   
His Apprentice   
You Can’t Always Get What You Want   
Pursuit of Happiness   
A Glooming Peace This Morning with It Brings   
Housekeeping   
Haute Couture Vulgarity   
Toxic Gumbo   
In the Attitude Desired for Exhibition   
Like Murder for Small Hay in the Underworld   
Everybody Has a Heart, Except Some People   
Moving On in the Dark Like Loaded Boats at Night, Though There Is No Course, There Is Boundlessness   
Your Cromwell, Your Thomas More   
I Dont Know Who It Is, That Sings, nor Did I, Would I Tell   
Grimoire   
Work   
The Last Passenger Pigeon in the Cincinnati Zoo   
Everything Husk to the Will   
The Interrupted Life   
How Can It Be I Am No Longer I   
The Sleeping Hollow of His Face Will Be the Straight Pass
of Surrendering  
Am Moor   


from Trouble in Mind (2004)

The Halo That Would Not Light   
After Raphael   
Leaflet on Wooing   
Still Life with Aspirin   
Herculaneum   
The One Theme of Which Everything Else Is a Variation   
Periodic Table of Ethereal Elements   
Some Details of Hell   
Basic Poem in a Basic Tongue   
Death as a German Expert   
Gamine   
Morgue Near Heaven   
The Insignificants   
A Lion in Winter   
Boy at the Border of His Own Allegory   
Still Life with Feral Horse   
Soul Keeping Company   
Self-Portrait with Her Hair on Fire   
The Deerhunting   
Darwinism as Spite   
Lady with an Ermine   
Fragment on Dissembling   
The Halo That Lit Twice   
Self-Portrait as Kaspar Hauser   
Self-Portrait with Self-Pity   
Girl at the Border of Her Own Allegory   
Of the Finished World   
In Elsinore   
Spain   
Portrait of Lucy with Fine Nile Jar   
The Identity of the Bridegroom   
Self-Portrait as a Herd of One   
Physicism    
Self-Portrait with Her Hair Cut Off    
The One Thousand Days    
Dire Wolf    
Pamphlet on Ravening    
Self-Deliverance by Lion    

Notes on the Poems    
Index of Titles    
Index of First Lines