Archeology -- Wabuska -- Indian thighs -- House of spirits -- Rockabilly blues -- White lies -- Coyote -- In the colony -- Tequila sunrise -- Wheels -- Sagave sunsets -- Nebraska scarlet fever -- Estéban -- Degrees of drought -- Black leather -- Sun/dance/song -- Red-headed devils -- Blue fog -- Cloudlessness -- El día de los muertos -- The tattered flags of the four directions -- Love the distant roar -- Cowboys & -- Brother bear -- Señor Skull's parade -- Respite -- At Sioux Monument -- Black out -- Sunset at the Indian cemetery -- Mourning log -- Horse academy -- The late night movie in my small American brain -- My bosses are heifers -- A fragile chant of holy air -- Avoiding harmonic convergence in Sioux Falls, South Dakota -- Oppression invocation -- Flag song -- Another day in the kingdom -- Professional development plan -- I thought I saw Dick Cheney chasing a bus in Minneapolis -- Nativity -- Tollefson's rake -- Mantle -- The resurrection of Elvis -- Arcane airs on Phillip Ave. -- The warpath -- Moonlight ranch: 1965 -- Approximate haiku, 1980 -- June 1876, Montana -- The wart of Satan -- Horsehide -- Arcadia -- The arc of it all -- Arc of the coven -- Ghost road -- Dark light -- Indian cowgirl in space -- Thunder snow -- The menu -- The end of the trail is a beginning of the trail -- About the author.
Summary
In his twelfth poetry collection, Adrian Louis slays Indian Country's centuries-old demons and confronts his own grief upon losing his wife to Alzheimer's.