- surplus “Cattle dog on a cold morning folds as if he is the letter and envelope”
- wreck-a-sketch “Draw your blanket now. Draw your blanket then.”
- elegy after the jeweler’s “When I sell her rings in order to order the thirteenth death certificate”
- if you don’t stop right now and carry on “your wine is medical, like marbles for feral Ukrainian children born with Chernobyl Heart” (two poems in Natural Bridge)
- why not malachite for resurrection “triumph (of the wrongbreed) goes to the apt. #5’s unshorn poodle”
- aster yellows “I will spend years rewriting the name of this thing”
- too many questions about strawberries “a teen tells me that the old women awake in the 5 a.m. insomnia of strawberries ask only what time the gates open”
- girlfriend (see page 37) “I’m a virgin in the whorehouse of hair and she is the madam”
- tough stain “Force and heat make a stain change its mind”
- out west “One target for the size of the story of your trophy kill”