American melancholy: poems

I: The coming storm --

In hemp-woven hammocks reading the Nation --

Exsanguination --

Little Albert, 1920 --

Harlow's monkeys --

Obedience : 1962 --

Loney --

The coming storm --

Edward Hopper's "Eleven A.M.," 1926 --

II: The first room --

The first room --

Sinkholes --

That other --

The mercy --

The blessing --

This is not a poem --

Apocalypso --

III: American melancholy --

To Marlon Brando in Hell --

Too young to marry but not too young to die --

Doctor help me --

Old America has come home to die --

Jubilate : an homage in catterel verse --

Kite poem --

American sign language --

Hometown waiting for you --

IV: "This is the time ... " --

Hatefugue --

A dream of stopped-up drains --

Bloodline, elegy --

Harvesting skin --

"This is the time for which we have been waiting" --

The tunnel --

Palliative.