Introduction: A reason to read, the structure of the spirit / Charles Potts --
Father coming home ; The business of fancydancing / Sherman Alexie --
what's important is ; code of the west ; multnomah falls ; poets, poets, poets / mel buffington --
The hairy, hairy fist, and love will die / Charles Bukowski (1922-1993) --
Kiss of the apocalypse / Casey Bush --
4-6-77 ; sept. 1968 / Jack Collom --
Totoncaxihuitl, a laxative / Abelardo "Lalo" Delgado --
"thru this valley" ; Diamond hanging I blues / Richard Denner --
La máquina a Houston / Edward Dorn --
Concert ; Letter to my father on his sixty-fifth birthday ; Photograph of the two of us ; Danny boy / Sharon Doubiago --
Beneath the chickenshit Mormon sun ; Stick together ; American hero / Bruce Embree (1949-1996) --
This poem is a public service ; The brood ; The Lord God has words with the choir / Michael Finley --
How everything was in the end resolved in California ; Victoria Mundi / Charles Foster (1922-1967) --
Sandbagging the banks / James Grabill --
To the reader ; Planests ; Prongs ; Robot hash ; For the future occupants ; Colorado space sonnet 3 ; The stamp act ; The exit ; The dream wedding / Darrell Gray (1945-1987) --
Fun with death / Adam Hammer (1949-1984) --
Final solution / Carl Hanni --
I don't wanna go back to jail but ; 10:40 pm / Robert Head --
"my sorrow is greater" / Mary Heckler --
Charismatic hacky-sackers ; Night cats at the grain elevator ; Ode to my scrotum / Dennis Held --
Vicegrips / David Hiatt --
Baby blue / Daniel Jacobs --
Rabbit drive / Zig Knoll (1940-1977) --
I smile with my teeth by not with my purty eyes / Peter Rutledge Koch --
The day Alvero Pineda was killed ; "William Shoemaker has a valium behind" ; "Racing is something primitive, shrunk and" ; Fucking other people ; It got to be almost a hundred in Pasadena today / Ronald Koertge --
Sgt. Pepper. Where / Richard Krech --
The underground economy ; A liturgy for Trinity / Barbara La Morticella --
On listening to Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor behind illegal drugs ; Alchemy / Eugene Lesser --
new year ; i found it at the movies / d.a. levy (1942-1968) --
The way he is with women : or, it's always show and tell with him ; Nice / Lyn Lifshin --
No love, please : we're Americans ; Friday, 3 p.m. ; we almost had twins ; kids / Gerald Locklin --
Juli II / Lucky Luckenbach --
On the Olympic coast / Dennis Mair --
Too many windows, not enough doors ; The storm that put the phones on hold / David Memmott --
Cinnabar is what I'll say to my husband if I should leave awhile ; Les fleurs / Jo Merrill --
Fort Sheridan, Illinois / Ray Obermayr --
fatalities / Tanure Ojaida --
"england and scotland are the paradise of walkers" ; "tightly woven fibers of virtually anything that" ; "He flies to Bangkok every now and then just to jack off" ; "Thank you, America" / Maureen Owen --
"She saw the Sawtooths first at night " ; "This house on the East Bench" / Will Peterson --
Ten years before the blast ; In memory of my father / Charles Plymell --
A marijuana poem / Charles Potts --
Pound of head ; Waiting on the progress train ; Breakfast at the Globe ; Kissing the newly dead ; Mitochondriac / dan raphael --
Insect lines ; A beautiful day / Jon Reilly --
The Blob / Mari-Lou Rowley --
dirge chicaneaux / Ricardo Sánchez (1941-1995) --
"moving" ; "what crimes must i commit" / David Sandberg (1938?-1969?) --
"There was a weekend for children" ; Night side / Bill Shively --
One reason ; How there came to be so many Joshua trees at Lee Flat ; Adventures of the floating rabbit / John Oliver Simon --
Waiting for the revolution in my garden where it is spring and there is so much rain / Gino Sky --
Letter to my people ; Hexagram 46
The queen of the blue fox ; The flutes of gama ; New living room / Edward Smith --
"shall we" ; bond age ; 6 years from pocatello / dawn stram --
Putting by / Ford Swetnam --
Stiletto heels ; Texan Jesuit who used to play left field ; At the Metropolitan ; The wheel ; The siren's song / Stephen Thomas --
The letter ; Poem for my husband ; "write of moon in june" ; Poem for Katherine seven years ago ; Exposed to the elements ; Child's poem / Karen Waring --
Introduction ; New family and family goals ; "seasonal love" ; Over entertainment ; Bull Dykes ; Mild sprees ; Poetry and what should be done about it / Bob Watt --
The miller ; Loki / Eric Wegner --
The poem politic x : a note for future historians / Keith Wilson --
MTBF : pass & stow ; Heavens to Betsy ; The mice will play ; The decline of the west rag / Daniel Zimmerman --
What awaits me ; The way the blackbirds song / Teri Zipf. --
Acknowledgments and notes.