Bay of angels : poems / Diane Wakoski.

CELLULOID LONGINGS
"La Baie des Anges:"The Shores of the Milky Way
"The Purple Rose of Cairo"
"Breathless"
The Blue Marine Taxi That Picked Me Up at the Movies
Cocteau's Le Sang d'un Poete: The Window, Neither Particle or Wave, That Can't Be Opened
Dancing with My Father
Fellini's "La Strada''
Spike, Not Angel: Imagining Another Spinoff from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
La Femme Nikita
Winter Solstice
"The Spiral Staircase:" Apples vs. Oranges
PALM TREES
Torch Song
Bell Bottom Trousers
California Eyes: A Meditation from Poitou-Charentes
Cognac in France
Szymborska's Cigarette
Persephone Steps Off the Elevator at the Fourth Floor
Persephone's Soliloquy: I Watched You Sleeping, Blue Flowers
Showering Behind the Zodiac's Curtain
Tea with Orpheus
Some Beauty Needs a Dimness
THE LADY OF LIGHT MEETS THE SHADOW Boy
A California Girl Opens a Triple Creme Cheese from the Cowgirl Creamery in Petaluma
Diane Sends Garden Observations to the Grocery Boy
Asking the Pizza Boy to Share a Cup of Gunpowder Tea
Goldfish Narratives
Pavese's Lawn
"Oysters with Lemon in Monmartre"
David Reminds Me of the River's Silence
Cleaning Up Petal Drop
The Pizza Boy Becomes a Fromagiere
Marilyn Gives Me a White Fleshed Peach
Cerulean
When the Dahlias, Who Once Were Beautiful Women
Not the Bridge of Sighs, But the Bridge of Boys
A Sip of Water
Wanting to Wear His Tweed Jacket
A Star of Silent Screen Sits Next to the Shadow Boy at the Movies
Gravel
Matthew at Home in November
Reinventing the Measure
EPILOGUE: POETICS
Meditation on Flowers