The keys to the jail: poems

Goodbye Is Forever

Another Time, Another Place

Wolf Season

Our Last Vacation

If One of Us Can't Live Like This

In a Sentimental Mood

Lover Long Gone

Dear John Letter, Never Sent

Stowaway Future

Thief, Thief

The Extinct

Sometimes a Season Changes Overnight

Just Outside

Brotherhood

Getting Over the Future

What I Thought Then

Traces of the Imperfectly Erased

In Medias Res

Warning Posted at the Marin Headlands: People Have Been Swept from the Cliffs and Drowned

All the Rivers in the World

The Open Spaces

A Year of Rain

The Keys to the Jail

Birthday Poem

Letter to an Inmate in Solitary Confinement

The Ocean

Melancholy

The Loneliness

Too Many Bridges

Overwinter

Please Check Under the Bed

Bees, And Other Dead Things Found in Winter

Every Bright Thing

Drought

Five Women Ending in a Flower

I. The Girl

II. The Older Woman

III. The Whore

IV. The Femme

V. The Wife

Poison on the Street

Doe Gun Lake

Speaking as the Male Poet

For All the Dead Lovelies

I Will Away

The Oar

Abstinence

Sick Days

Perfect Crime

I Wasn't Searching for a New Language, But a New Meaning

Some Advice

At the Museum of Modern Art

Cold Comfort in October

Entreaty

Some Advice for Both of Us

Applied Science

Dolores Park

The Doctor

The Story

Ought

Something with a Heart in It

A Beautiful Night for the Rodeo

Jonathan Plays in the Key of E

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Colophon