Bitters

Thoughtful textured poems by a poet who is able to fuse the intellectual with the visceral.--"Library Journal"

Proviso

3

(4)

FACE OF THE LEVIATHAN

Seraphim

7

(1)

Comparative Religion

8

(2)

Fortune-Telling

10

(1)

Parable of Snakes and Stones

11

(2)

The Mythology of Heavenly Messengers

13

(1)

Saint John of the Cross

14

(1)

The Making of Saints

15

(1)

``A lonely man in his greatness''

16

(2)

Ishmael Remembers Abraham

18

(1)

The Face in the Depths of the Desert

19

(1)

Signs and Wonders

20

(2)

If the Shroud of Turin Is a Fake

22

(1)

God, the Gardener

23

(2)

The Writing on the Wall

25

(1)

Bitter Herb

26

(2)

Law of Inertia

28

(1)

The Relic

29

(2)

Face of the Leviathan

31

(6)

VOICE IN THE WHIRLWIND

The City of Brotherly Love Is Neither

37

(2)

Biosphere 2

39

(3)

Galileo Was Finally Buried in the Body of the Church

42

(1)

Widow's Mite

43

(2)

Modus Operandi

45

(1)

Every Consecrated Head

46

(1)

Toledo

47

(1)

Bitter Fruit

48

(1)

My Spanish Children

49

(2)

Homophobia

51

(2)

The Laws of Patrimony

53

(1)

The Custom

54

(2)

Fear-Biter

56

(2)

The Housewarming Gift

58

(4)

In the Village Where You Were Born

62

(1)

The Mortgage

63

(1)

``Animal People''

64

(1)

Voice in the Whirlwind

65

(4)

Between the Imagined and the Real

69

(1)

The Argument

70

(5)

MY MOTHER'S HIP

My Mother's Hip

75

(12)

THE SACRIFICE TREE

At the Beginning

87

(1)

Archaeological Record

88

(2)

The Excavation

90

(1)

Field School

91

(2)

The Discovery

93

(2)

Ceremonial Trash

95

(1)

Room of Dust

96

(1)

The Sacrifice Tree

97

(3)

Heart of the Sky

100

(2)

The Blue Mustard

102

(2)

Daphne: or how the soul falls in love with what it will become

104

(1)

Galileo in the Year 2000

105

(4)

POETE MAUDIT

A History of Romanticism

109

(4)

Poete Maudit

113

(1)

Apocrypha

114

(1)

Babel

115

(1)

Reproach

116

(1)

The Lesson

117

(1)

The Worst Form of Ambition

118

(1)

The Dead Are Translated into Another World

119

(1)

``Let us go then, you and I''

120

(2)

Xena™ in Philadelphia: Isaiah's House

122

(4)

Muse

126

(1)

The Price of Books

127

(2)

The Artist of Willendorf

129

(4)

THE GIFT

The Foundling

133

(1)

Angel Fire

134

(1)

A Dram of Bitters

135

(2)

On a Winter's Night

137

(1)

Gordian Knot

138

(1)

What We Need Words For

139

(1)

The Inheritance

140

(1)

Internal Clock

141

(2)

Voice of the Sphinx

143

(1)

Headlock

144

(1)

The Gift

145

(1)

Caught in the Nets of Illumination

146

(2)

Autochthonic Song

148

(5)

Notes

153

(4)

About the Author

157

(1)

Acknowledgments

158

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