GOD RUNS THROUGH ALL THESE ROOMS
BOOK A: THE ENDS OF LOVE
PROLOGUE
Either
Alzheimer's or the Lightning Blast
BETH
Another Spring
Night in Farmersville, Ohio * Ah! Nights * Francis Drake * My Fingers * Without
You Beth / My Life
JENNY
Jennifer in Two
Voices * "Mushrooming" * sAVAnnA * Atoll * Montana Motel * Queen of
Denial * For Love * The Beast * Her Name is Jenny and Many a Morn has Worn her Face
YEOBO
Still Strangers
(Prologue) * volcano * Solstices * this is how . it all begins * A Poem with a
Title Near the End * Yes, But Where
Are the Wheels? * Don't Get Me Wrong * Take Me In * A Poem and After 70 Years a
Reply * Contretemps * Busses and Crosses * Leap Frog * Evidence for the
Mutational Codependence of Time * What Wanton * Dowser * Once, Once * Trad *
WORD * That Y in Miser Is Me: A Melodrama * Peace Meal * Eros in Erosion
(Epilogue)
&u&
Hawked and
Doves * Conquering Love * Loves I Bear to You * High Coup * (And) Purple: Prose * In Solitary * In
Your Way * And, Do You Still Go by Beatrice? * Lillian the Ocean and the Isle
of Palms * Confessions * Van/ity * Just Stupid, I Guess -- or Blind -- or
Inattentive -- or... * Mary * Lepidoptourists * The Engagement * By Invitation
Only * Don't Interrupt * Ley Line * First Night in Thailand * Liquid *A
Feminophile's Plea * My Life in Tornado Alley * O Former-Lovers * Her Barbwire
Lips: :Her Waterfall Eyes * Flight of Fantasy * Inanimate Enamorata *
Antikarmic * Ergonomics * French Kiss, 1789 * In Order to Form A More Perfect
Union * Gloved * Simple Math
GRACE
Soul's Advice *
Gracelessly Waiting * Dirty Blues * Reporting for Duty * Dear Departure * She
came draped in birdsong * Regrets
O,
DARK LADY
Reverse
Metamorphosis * Enlightenment * In an On-One (self-portrait, unfinished for
now) * Nyun * La Srever
S’efil * The Dance:
Nancy
SALLY
In My
Defense * And Just When I Thought the Earth was Turning Cold * Nocturne
(a duet) * Sally * Apple Blues * We Within the Wheels: Dalit * Whispers
AND SIRINYA, AT LAST
No Crosswise
Stripes * Between Two Suns * Doubt and Reassurance * Cake's Consumed, Candles
Extinguished, Balloons Popped or Deflated
EPILOGUE
There Are Two
Sorts of Zebras in This World
INTERLUDE: My Life Was Mapped Out for Me
BOOK B: BROKEN CHINA
Three by Li Bai * Passion for Life
(after Wang Guozhen) *
Paintings (after Wan Wei) * Homesickness (after Yu Guangzhong) * Qingyuan,
Lantern Festival (after Xin Qiji) * Inlaid Harp (after Li Shangyin) * Flowering
Tree (after Xi Murong) * Yearning (after Wang Guozhen) * Cambridge, Goodbye Again (after Yu
Guangzhang) *River Snow (after Liu Zongyuan) * Passing Anren by Road (after
Yang Wanli)
BOOK C: GIFT
Gift * The
History of Our Art, Illustrated: From Madonna and Child to Mud on a Windshield
*
“in the 7th
day”
Kingston: 8
Days! 7 Nights! * Escher's Sharks * Newman * The Attic Language * Around 5800
South on Ellis
“flaming sword
slicing up the sky”
Bush Babies: I.
Responsible Parties * II. 49th Isonzo * III. Iraq/Katrina Collidoscope * IV.
Locks & Boxes * V. I Ask Us * VI. Swastikas? Where? Which Ones? * VII.
Rootedness * Choice
“humankind was
witness”
Eye Job. Nose
Jobs. And Red Crosses * Buckeye Boys * Status Caste * Slumber, O Slum! * In
Munster * Deign Not to Name * On Reading Lawrence O'Donnell in the Age of Trump
* Airy Poppings * Declaration Manifesto Palimpsest
"skeptical
descendants”
Another Noel *
Damascus * zer0moon * Headlines, and What Happened to Our Myths
“bereft,
banished”
Plicae * A
Second Day in Thailand: Cha Am * Ko Samui *Yes, I have Been to India
“peremptory
angels”
The Don Comes
after the Knight. And Juanita? She Stays in Bed * In 1988 in Seoul, the Head of
the IOC Played High-Stakes Go-Stop with the Anglican Archbishop of South Africa
and a Georgia Senator * One Almost Had It All * The Collared Man Ponders His
Fate
“embrace
without cease”
Marital Bliss *
The Woman at the Gestalt Well * My Torquemada, Alas * Poontang Jubilee: The Object of Our Intercourse * Unique (Haiku) * Mistress Mine
Grace Means "Gifts Received at Christ's Expense" * Experience *
INTERLUDE: Tattoo You
BOOK D: HEAVEN
Poems by Yun
Dongju
[12 December
1934] One Candle * Life and Death * No Tomorrow
[18 January
1935] On the Street
[1935] A
Daydream * Southern Sky
[20 October
1935] Blue Sky
[December 1935]
Clamshell
[6 January
1936] Home * Chicks
[early 1936]
The Map of the Bed Wetter * Rooftile Couple
[10 February
1936] Doves
[20 March 1936]
Parting * Meal Ticket
[24 March 1936]
At Peony Peak
[25 March 1936]
Twilight * Heart
[March 1936]
Skylark
[early spring]
Aeroplane
[spring] Hens
[May 1936]
Ballpark Postmeridian * On the Mountaintop
[10 June 1936]
Days Like These
[26 June 1936]
The Forest * Sunnyside
[24 July 1936]
Heart
[27 July 1936]
Broken Dreams
[summer 1936]
In the Valley
[9 September] Sunshower * Broomstick
[23 October
1936] Autumn Night
[October 1936] Spring * What Do They Live On? *
snowy eyes, apple
[autumn 1936]
chimney
[December 1936]
snow, sock making pattern, letter, dog, sparrows, chicken
[winter 1936]
winter, morning, pocket
[1936] the wash
