Conflict resolution for holy beings : poems
(Book)

How it came to be. "I lay my body down..." ; For calling the Spirit back from wandering the earth in its human feet ; "For any spark to make a song..." ; Rabbit is up to tricks ; "Listened to an alto sax player..." ; No ; "Humans were created by mistake..." ; Once the world was perfect ; "When I woke up from a forty-year sleep..." ; Cricket song ; "After years you realize..." ; Entering the principality of O'ahu by Sky Roads ; "Each human is a complex, contradictory story..." ; We were there when jazz was invented ; "This is only one of many worlds..." ; Reality show ; "When I blow my horn..." ; Beatiful baby, beautiful child

The wanderer. Talking with the Sun ; "'One way to look at it,' he told me..." ; Spirit walking in the tundra ; "Where we lived, the settlers built their houses..." ; Mother Field ; "Let's not shame our eyes..." ; Walk ; "Midnight is a horn player..." ; Charlie and the baby ; "When I walk over to join you in the two-step..." ; Had-It-Up-To-Here Round Dance ; "'Through these doors walk some of the finest...'" ; One day there will be horses ; "When I returned to my ancestral grounds..." Goin' home ; "Our Mvskoke new year is inherently..." ; The first day without a mother

Visions and monsters. Falling, falling ; "Imagine if we natives went to the cemetaries..." ; In mystic ; "This is the kitchen table university..." ; Listening to the blues in a fish joint, downtown Denver ; "I would do anything for you, baby..." ; Indian school night song blues ; "Do not feed the mosters..." ; Suicide watch ; "We all have helpers..." ; This morning I pray for my enemies ; "Ah, but what about being..." ; Conflict resolution for holy beings ; "The first horn I played..." ; Forever ; "And then I argued with myself..." ; I am not ready to die yet ; "Whenever a saxophone beings..." ; Report from the edge of a terrible regime ; "In one house lives the sun..." ; From DFW Airport at dawn ; "What kept me going was that perfect song..." ; The last world of fire and trash

The world. You can change the story, my spirit said to me as I sat near the sea ; "Those who could see into the future predicted the storm..." ; Sunrise healing song ; "I knew there was no way..." ; It's raining in Honolulu ; "The day went on as it always had..." ; Praise the rain ; "Time is a being, like you, like me..." ; Rushing the Pali ; "I thought of all the doors..." ; Surfing canoes ; "I returned to the city of country swing..." ; Speaking tree ; "I heared a raven cry the blues..." ; Everybody has a heartache ; "Everyone comes into the world..." ; For a girl becoming ; "I kept thinking of my boyfriend..." ; Fall song ; "My friend Sarita went visiting..." ; For keeps ; "I confided in him the longing..." ; Equinox ; "What are you doing there, soul..." ; Sunrise.]