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Contents

Politics

Rigged

Key West

Excise

Boy Soldier

War on Terror

Wartime Aubade

Trace

Monday Morning

Shoes My Father Wore

The Lady with the Purple Glove

Underwater

Wednesday’s Child

Yesterday’s News

The Dream Giver

Letter from King Ferdinand of Spain to the Tainos in

October 1493

Legal Tender

Dreamboat

Wish

News from Nowhere

English

Life

Dalí on Dickens

Calvino

In Memoriam

Love

19 Victoria Street, Shrewsbury

A Concrete Walk in the Woods

The Rose of Toulouse

Saturday, Ocean Creek

Calypso History Lesson from American Vulture

The Vulture Goddess

Vulture Highway Code

Vulture Red Letter Day

Vulture’s Theory of Perpetual Return

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