she tries to get things
out of men
that she can’t get
because she’s not
15% prettier

ANOTHER METHOD
OF MAKING WALNUT CATSUP
And this is a very small cookbook
as if Trout Fishing in America we
Trout Fishing in America had Mar

Worsewick Hot Springs was nothing
boards across the creek. That was
The boards dammed up the creek eno
bathtub there, and the creek flowe
invited like a postcard to the oce

It’€™s a star that looks
like a poker game above
the mountains of eastern
Oregon.
There are three men playing.

Yup.
A long lazy September look
in the mirror
say it’s true.
I’m 31

Driving through
hot brushy country
the late autumn,
I saw a hawk
crucified on a

THE COVER FOR
The cover for Trout Fishing in A
late in the afternoon, a photograp
statue in San Francisco’s Washing
Born 1706—Died 1790, Benjamin Fr

For Marcia

A trout-colored wind blows
through my eyes, through my finger
and I remember how the trout
used to hide from the dinosaurs
when they came to drink at the riv

Three crates of Private Eye Lett
the name and drawing of a detectiv
with magnifying glass on the sides
of the crates of lettuce,
form a great cross in man’s imagin