Contents ONE fin of molten rock waves at the sky 3/ When Weaver Ants Cut (A Valentine) 4/ Fugu Soup Blues 5/ Invention of the Monsters 6/ By the Light of a Single Worm 7/ After Challenging Jennifer Lee to a Fight 9/ Marie Laveau, Queen of Voodoo 10/ First Fool 11/ Bloodflower 12/ In Praise of Ice Cream Vending machines at a Greyhound Bus Station 13/ The Problem with Skin TWO came spiders tiptoe across the ash 17/ Passenger Pigeon Cloud 18/ Take the Moly Flower 19/ Passion Play 20/ Touchpool 21/ Dog Custody 22/ Candy Necklace 24/ If You Take the Fins Off a Shark 25/ At Medusa's Hair Salon 27/ After the Auction, I Bid You Good-Bye 28/ This is the Last Hotel 29/ When All of My Cousins are Married 30/ "Yes, We Have No Bananas" 31/ Sugar Pains Me 32/ I am Not the Hand 33/ Last Aerogramme to You, with Lizard THREE scallops watch pillow lava form underwater 37/ Devil's Tongue 38/ The Carcass of Beef 39/ Oriental 40/ When the Mother of the Greedy Boy Has Enough 41/ Cocoa Dance 42/ Dali's Fear of Grasshoppers 43/ Never Sugar, Never Soil 44/ How the Robin's Breast Became Red 45/ Bee Wolf 46/ The Woman Who Eats Soil FOUR nuggets of wet lapilli collect under a pine tree and no one hears 49/ Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia 51/ High School Picture Re-Take Day 52/ Planaria 53/ When the Great Teacher Dies 54/ World of the Ice Giants 55/ Might as Well Be Queen of Something 56/ Origin of the Mango 58/ What the Mosquito Gives 59/ River Phoenix 60 / Summer of No Smiles FIVE ovenbirds, bulgy with seed, fly past the blast 65/ Love in the Orangery 66/ The Cockfighter's Daughter Falls in Love 67/ Niagara Falls at Night 68/ For Luck: A Seven Day guide 70/ Flashlight Fish 71/ Soap 73/ At the Drive-In Volcano 74/ The Green Flash 75/ When Mountains Fang the Sky 76/ The Traveling Lizard 77/ Why I Crave Ribs Tonight 78/ First Anniversary with Monkeys 80/ Notes 81/ Acknowledgments.