Constant Stranger

These poems originally appeared in the following publications, to whom acknowledgement is here made; Ask The Poet, De Quincy (England), Stinktree, Village.

Note: The title of the last poem in this book coms from a line by Borges.

The title Manao tupapau has two meanings:
the young girl can be thinking of the ghost,
or the ghost is thinking about her.
- Paul Gaugin

Death and the Arkansas River

Directions From a Madman

The First Twenty-Five Years of My Life

The Boathouse

Blue Yodel of the Desperado

In These Rooms

Eyelids Noticed Only in The Seventh Minute of Twilight

No Sign of Life: A Tragic Gag of Raymond Radiguet

The Forgotten Madmen of Menilmontant

At the Moment of Death

A Black Cat Crossed the Road I Was Born On

Time Forks Perpetually Toward Innumerable Futures
In One of Them I Am Your Enemy