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J. Tarin Towers writes about the politics of human relationships in a fiercely distinctive voice. She has a keen ear for the rhythms of everyday speech and a form that flirts with tradition. In a framework of love and sex and betrayal, these poems and stories explore the boundaries of the heart's language.

Apocalypso #1 — Apocalypso #1, part 2 — Guns 'n' things — The hitchers, #3 — Ace hardware — Like Daniel Boone — How to get a good night's sleep — Making mistakes — Mission poem — I'm not easy — Pepper spray — Red: not the dress — The thinking problem — The hitchers, #1 — The hitchers, #2 — Good listener — The dead man — Explaining the golf war — One more Allen Ginsburg tribute poem — Legend in my own mind — Smack (1998 nostalgia remix) — Love has always been my game — What did today — Collecting box tops — What they leave — To forget — Psych study — Phantom limb — Discount pulse rate — Letter — "I love you" poem — Thorn — Analogy — April 1995, or what i thought about — will live until the bruises disappear — Fourteen opening stanzas from poems that have never been written — Here is my heart — Made of rain — 2-point conversation — Afterwards — Shallow water no diving — Sonnet — My prince — Epitaph — One night standoff — Abecedarian: ask Bobby — Oral fixation — Picky — Walter — How to break up.