Ennui Prophet

Table of Contents

I.

Searching for Ancestors 2
No Wonder 3
The Fact Remains 4
Dream Horse 5
Congruence 6
Ennui Prophet 7
Transubstantiation 8
Grief Season 9
Ghost in the Land of Skeletons 10
My Mother Listens for Birds 11
Hypoglycemia 12
Orange Sunshine 13
In the White Hour 14
Amish Radio 15

II.

The Rise and Fall of the Middle Class 17
Church of the Holy Abattoir 18
Act V 19
“Wicked Go the Doors” 20
The Year I Was Sick 21
Questions of Metaphysics 22
After Christmas 23
“Are You Looking for the Self Help Section?” 24
Museum of Wrong Turns 25
The Brown Heroin of Love 26
The Day Before My Violin Broke 27
Aloha 28
End of the Ten-Foot Summer 29
Mute Gods in Translation 30
Song of the Elysian Troubadour 31
Here Arrive the Beautiful Women 32
Why 33
Salt City Solo 34

III

Down to the Sea in Sinking Ships 36
“Astronauts Give Up” 37
Stopped by Cops in South Carolina Where the Billboards Shift from Jesus
to Porn and Back Again, I Understand My Affliction 38
One More Roll 39
They Are World Travelers 40
Memo about the Pig Study 41
Still Some Interest in the Heathen Gods 42
Humor Is the Arbiter of Sadness 43
Rasputin’s Folly 44
My Argument with the World, Part 3 45
“Need Some Eyes for Your Next Puppet?” 46
Where Does the Carpathian Highway Roam? 47
For My Students 48
Tombstone Hand 49
The Tyranny of Victory 50
A Vague Memory of Wings 51
The Unimaginable World 52
Rara Avis 53
Mandala 54
Waking Up at the Wheel