My body is paper: stories and poems

Section 1. I have no hands but yours. Hands ; Father figure ; Ardent letters ; Eric --

Section 2. If she could, she would cut out what is wrong with me. Tradition ; "Charge" ; My father's snoring is wild tonight ; She picked them up in Mexico ; Coming out ; Cigar cigar ; If she could ; A netless heaven ; Parrots --

Section 3. The jungle is lush and it cries. His only family ; Buzz ; Nectarines and orchids ; February 15, 1992 ; It's Friday night and Jejus is at the laundromat ; Mickey and Pluto undress behind the walls of Sleeping Beauty castle ; Sucking --

Section 4. It makes me cry at God, stain the earth. Cheap rent ; Detached ; Dis(coloration) ; Doppelganger ; Recovery ; Paleontology ; Need --

Section 5. Coming closer like footsteps near a locked door. Unusual June weather in L.A. ; Even my father put down his beer for this ; Botero in Beverly Hills ; Justice is a white woman ; Black helicopters ; Surveillance --

Section 6. I worry who will love him after I am gone. "Heroes" --

Section 7. A part of us will survive after we're gone. Birth ; Last supper ; The miraculous catch of fish ; Flight ; Waiting ; Penance ; The cutting garden ; Wedding bands and bone ; Things left ; 1-800-BELOVED.