The unicorn poem -- On signing an agreement to read poetry at a State University -- Juana La Loca -- Some reflections in the desert -- The second coming -- Bosque, North Valley, Albuquerque -- Cleofes vigil -- Horses -- News item -- Flight of crows -- Once a man knew his name -- Mama snake -- In the San Antonio Hotel -- Flowers and songs of sorrow -- El perro Mexicano/The Mexican dog -- The day I fell in love with Josephine Earp -- On reading in a newspaper that I am a star -- La coqueta -- Christmas at the Health Care Center on the west mesa -- '38 Chevy -- Lunch at the Gyros -- Paula Angel -- Discourse on the severed head of Joaqúin Murieta -- Dialogue with a skull found in a Las Vegas, New Mexico -- On a photograph by Alex Traube -- Trusting the fire not to go out -- From Las Vegas Journal -- The road to Fenton Lake -- Command prompt -- Poem [in memory of Jim Hall] -- Elegy for Ramon Sender -- Watching old movies -- On an Edward R. Gonzales drawing of a Santa Fe Bar, circa 1940 --Afterword by Angel Gonzales.
