Insomnia diary / Bob Hicok.

Bottom of the ocean 1
Small purchase 3
The semantics of flowers on Memorial Day 5
Dropping the euphemism 7
Calling him back from layoff 10
My life with a gardener 12
Meeting Bill 13
An old story 15
The documentary art 16
Becoming bird 18
Another awkward stage of convalescence 20
The bald truth 22
After working sixty hours again for what reason 23
Oath to my former life 25
Spirit ditty of no fax-line dial tone 27
Insomnia diary 29
Go Greyhound 32
Finally opening the anthology to Kunitz 35
Free-floating anxiety sounds like a pretty balloon 36
Tuesday's walk 38
1935 40
American Studies 42
Sur Coast diary 44
Capital crime 46
Now and then I am direct 51
Growing at the speed of fashion 53
Bars poetica 56
Echo 60
Mortal shower 62
Meteor shower 65
Building a painting a home 66
Commission by attrition 68
Goodbye in the shape of a knot 71
The edge 73
Radical neck 74
It's not so much the heat as the stupidity 77
Cure for the common cold 78
Cutting edge 80
Truth about love 81
Shopping at the ocean 83.