Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems

Today is the first day of the rest of your life -- Heigh-ho, heigh-ho -- Epic mountain hoax -- Mountain to mountain -- Mono-polytheism -- Invocation -- perfect shadow -- $1 exceptional coffee -- Ultra-confessional -- 1 + 1 = 3 -- Calcium rush -- Gradually, gills -- Ambien -- pill's oval portrait -- Etudes -- To do -- John Coltrane's central park west -- Astor Piazzolla -- Gone but not forgiven -- Competing lists -- Word and sentence -- Found in translation -- poetics of optics -- laminated lament -- Vaya con Dios -- Perversely patriotic -- Bad folk song -- Two dozen roses for Jackson Mac Low : a cento -- fragrance grifters -- Unisex colognes -- Echo -- Legacy -- Almonds -- Ciao Bella chocolate sorbet -- Pre-Raphaelite pinups -- Conversations with fountains -- sheep of days -- Bent orbit -- Tao -- Invoice -- date with Robbe-Grillet -- My illustrious Gargoyle ancestors -- Folk dance -- Maria Callas -- Another form of suicidal behavior -- Lesbian Corn -- Approaching orgasm -- Martha Graham -- Crusade -- At the end of summer -- At the mall -- Crickets crush woman -- In a monotonous dream -- Puritans -- Being sick together -- Surface tension -- foreign legion -- After a promising youth -- Things to do in the Bible -- Breakfast with Jerome -- You go to my head -- Escape from women's prison -- Aleister Crowley slept here -- Bouquet of objects -- Pale yellow -- For David Hockney -- Brand X -- Men in camisoles -- Dear Michael -- In the mail today -- After Herrick -- Destinations -- Art about fear -- Up the ladder of enlightenment -- My father sees a UFO -- Ninety percent of all serial killers -- Mulberry street -- Prescription -- lemon -- Decoy -- After Bacon -- Ah! -- To Harry Crosby at the Hotel Des Artistes -- Sometimes I get distracted -- Detail -- Self portrait as you -- Pink shutters -- Thesis sentence -- Beauty secret -- Monologue : Frank O'Hara -- Table of contents for an imaginary book -- Second thoughts -- Armani weather -- Remorse after shopping -- Wang Wei's moon -- Almost transparent -- Cupboard/shrine -- From Lorine -- Fennel -- Starting to Rain -- Letter of recommendation -- Voice-over -- origami of time -- Jerome meditating -- National poetry month -- Autobiographical poem -- banal -- seven veils of spring -- Negative capabilities -- Asking for a raise -- I interview Elaine Equi on the four elements -- Opaque saints -- quiet poem -- sensuous reader -- objects in catalogs -- objects in Japanese novels -- objects in fairy tales -- Wittgenstein's colors -- burden of bad objects -- My taste -- Everywhere today we see a lack of commitment -- "Your Purple Arrives" -- O patriarchy -- killers inside me -- Women and magic -- Early influence -- Furniture fantasy -- Take-out fantasy -- Alien fantasy -- Out of the cloud chamber -- lost poems -- bend in the light -- Intersections -- sentimental song -- Trenton local -- Dessert -- For August in April -- Return of the sensuous reader -- After and in keeping with H.D. -- Career -- Reset -- Variations on the horizon -- Okay -- monster dances -- Cannibals in space -- Poem beginning with a line by James Wright -- most beautiful blonde in the world -- Ode to Chicago -- Clown -- Then I became the weathergirl -- For Hollis Sigler -- Waiting on you -- Yes or no -- Hi-fashion girl -- Arranged affair -- Amber street -- Poem -- Dolor -- plan.