Foreword
Imago
Poem for My Navel
Imagined Love Poem for My Mother from My Father
The Wedding Photograph
Watermelon
My Grandmother, in Increments
Two Elegies
The Bringers of Bread
Childhood Elegy
The Sow
Bat Hunting
Kite Season
Blood Thirst
Brother
Shoe Box in Early Summer
Nocturnal
Sleeping Together
The Circumcision
The Scheme of Beauty
Desert Postcards
Typhoon
Fetching My Father
The Eye of the Wound
Killing a Chicken
Faith Healer
Ode to My Mother's Hair
Departure: July 30, 1984
The Immigrants' Son
Alaska
The Red Sweater
My Father in the Night
The Socks
Men with Breasts
This Face
Visiting the Manongs in a Convalescent Home
in Delano
California Beaches
First Cigarette
Little Blackbird
Three Muses
Sleep