Contents

  • February 6, 1945, I'm living in a sack of amniotic love
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  • March 15, 1945, I blink into existence
    3
  • Summer, 1945, A monkey dances on the sidewalk below
    3
  • 1948, A bubble and a cup of brook
    3
  • Spring, 1949, Is there a law?
    4
  • Fall, 1949, Do that again
    5
  • Summer, 1950, The sound of Nanny's voice
    5
  • Early September, 1950, Kindergarten, You're a very good boy, Scotty
    6
  • 1951, Our own home
    6
  • 1952, Second grade, I commit a federal crime
    7
  • 1952, A bird on my head
    8
  • 1952, God makes a first appearance
    9
  • Summer, 1953, Sam the monkey
    9
  • 1953, Third grade, First Amendment
    10
  • 1953, A second theft
    12
  • Summer, 1954, God's secular back door
    15
  • 1954, Fourth grade, Mrs. Simonson
    16
  • 1955, A gift from Nanny
    16
  • 1956, Sixth grade, Behind the wallpaper
    18
  • 1956, In my mind's eye
    19
  • 1957, Seventh grade, It's in my DNA
    19
  • 1960, My cousin Michael
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  • 1960, While playing my viola
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  • October, 1962, The Cuban Missile Crisis
    24
  • Late May, 1963, Has anyone seen Scott?
    25
  • Fall, 1963, Is it dangerous? Do you carry a gun?
    27
  • Spring and summer, 1964, If a Jew came to my home in Syria, I would kill him
    29
  • 1965, The Vietnam War becomes America's war
    30
  • 1967, The theft of everything I own
    36
  • August 3, 1968, The Tombs
    37
  • 1968, Resist the draft
    43
  • 1968, The dog burning
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  • December, 1968, I see white knuckles
    47
  • The beginning of May, 1969, Something's coming
    50
  • 1971, To kill and be killed
    51
  • 1972, Spirit stirs
    66
  • 1972, Bob Dylan slept here
    69
  • Spring, 1974, Out of the blue
    69
  • Summer, 1974, A world in grains of sand
    71
  • Summer, 1974, What is this?
    72
  • Summer 1974, A peyote trip in Mexico
    76
  • August, 1975, I'm not in the mood
    84
  • 1976, A revolution of consciousness
    85
  • Summer, 1977, A chance meeting
    89
  • 1978, Is this the man on the wrong plane, Mommy?
    91
  • October, 1980, From time to time, I think about the small ball of hashish
    104
  • Summer, 1982, Selling art on the streets of Manhattan
    109
  • Dancing with Aretha
    110
  • My four-word conversation with James Baldwin
    110
  • What's your story?
    110
  • When I first saw him, he was showing me his badge
    111
  • 1997 and 1998, The Adolescent Psychiatric Unit
    114
  • Nobody believes me
    116
  • You have to keep your clothes on
    119
  • Get in the car!
    121
  • 1998 through 2009, The College of Santa Fe
    123
  • 1999, They touched our souls
    124
  • Fall, 2006, Joseph is Native
    136
  • Spring, 2007, The Janis Joplin hot springs
    140
  • Spring, 2008, Where is Jesus in your life right now?
    144
  • Mid-summer, 2009, The most perfect thing I've ever done
    147
  • 2011, The disability and ability of love
    149
  • 2017, Working with Daniel
    150
  • 2018, The ability of love
    154
  • May, 2018, A simple twist of fate
    158
  • Late summer, 2019, Covered by its green, velvet cloth
    159
  • January 27, 2022, I wake up and smell the treason
    161
  • Citations
    163
  • Profile
    164