Table of Contents
Exordium 1
You Who Seek Grace from a Distracted God 3
CE 9
Listen 11
Valley of the Palms 13
Codex Luna 17
Siege Communiqué 26
Arizona Lamentation 28
Sombra 30
Typewriter 31
Skunks 36
Fall Rain 42
Irrigation Canal Codex 43
Help Me 47
Walking Backward in the Dark 51
Roadmaster '56 56
Poema 58
Tecolote Canyon 59
OME 67
48 Roadsongs 69
Sonoran Desert Sutras 84
YEI 91
Teocalli Blues 93
Ditch Turtles 96
The Duck 98
Elk 105
La cara perdida 106
There Is a Town in Mexico 107
Song of Praise 109
Love Song 112
Definition 114
Bravo 88 115
Codex Colibrí 120
The Signal-to-Noise Ratio: Chicago Haiku 123
(asshole) 127
Incident Report 135
Canción al final de un día de sombras 142
Lines for Neruda 145
Pinche Ernesto 148
Tijuana Codex 149
The Tijuana Book of the Dead 150
NAHUI 159
Insomnia Machine 161
16 Lane 162
Darling Phyl 188
HYMN 191
Hymn to Vatos Who Will Never Be in a Poem 193