So, buoyed by the excitement of working on Flower, Song, Dance: Aztec and Mayan Poetry, I actually wrapped up my volume of original poetry before the short story collection. Shattering and Bricolage is now in front of an editor; we’ll see whether it gets picked up.
Here’s the table of contents, though I have no guarantee that all these poems will make it in (or that the collection will ever make it into print, heh):
Knowledge
The Smell of Rain
Birdlaw
This River
Valley Haiku
In the End, Simply Jane’s Brother
Andromache’s Prayer
Scamandrius
The Swirling Black
Coyote and the Prairie Dogs
Puhabitu
The Fortune of Gilgamesh
Rhyme Ran to Rap
Cretan Glance
Identity
I Am Information
White Ribbon for Jade
Three Mythic Deaths
The Ghost of the Moon
Nativity
The Lost Verses of Nezahualcoyótl
Illusion
Cemetery
David Lynch
Deep Blue Bottomless Soul
Vizier
Nagual Tragedy
Primal Primates Saw Alkaloid Angels
Flayed
Keeping it Real
The Naked Gnostic Nun
Ebullition
Beautiful
Bitching, Witching, Miching Malhecho
Owl, Mockingbird and Crow
Crawling
Confessions of the Reverend
The Orange Embers of Our Dreams
Dark Blot
Silence
Lenguas Despiadadas
Ballad of the Boo Hag
Balance
Herdthink
I Wish I Could Remember
Meditation
In Xóchitl, In Cuícatl
Craft
Nine Neo Gnostic Mantras
Intinction
Winged Words
Dancefloor Thrall
Snowflakes
Eight Koans of Rishi Brahmavid
Zazen
Monanacahuia
I Did Not Go to Work Today
You Are Not What You Seem to Be
Devotion
Near Dwaravati, on the Beach
The Rime of Green Passage
Master of the Board
A Boy’s Heart
Mother Earth
Philotes
Becoming
Her Discourse Antiphrastic
Making a Man
Adamant or Silk
Ineluctable
Through the Badlands
Ruby Red
Stewardship
Bhakti
Tonantzin
Action
Beyond Mirando City
Belonging
Upcycled
A Young Brujo Learns the Mystery
Hurricane and the Basilisks
Baptism
The Fall of Bagdad
The Gods in the Bowl
The Path
Shattering and Bricolage
Huckleberry Juju
The Blue-Spangled Blue