Collected here in one volume are more than sixty poems from Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jack Ketchum.

Included in this collection:
JOHNNIE MACK BROWN
HOBOE'S MEMOIR
WHEN I AM A BOY
ARTHUR
KU
KU TWO
11/11/87
ANNOUNCEMENT
BEAST
CONTACT
CATS HIDE NOTHING
SLEEPING WOMAN
FIREFLIES
HEARTS
FOR CAITY
CHRISTMAS DAY, 1969
TO LANCE AND CATHY'S CHILD ON THE AFTERNOON OF HER BIRTH, JULY 9TH, 1970
BILLY'S DAD
BETHEL, NEW YORK, AUGUST 16, 1969
A TERRIBLE THING
WINGS
MICHOU
AN HONEST WORD
DREAMS THE LUNA MOTH
MONDO CANE
ST. JOHN
GREECE
SWORD AND SANDAL
CATS' HAIKU FOR PAULA ON THE ROAD
QUESTION
SECOND VIRGIN
REHEARSAL, MARAT/SADE, 1969
POETIC
TV GUIDE
MATHEMATICS
VINNI
TRAGEDY
THE TEACHER, 1969
CRISIS
FOR CUJO
M.D.
WALK
BETHEL, NEW YORK , AUGUST 16, 1969
JANIS
A PROMISE
MORNING STAR
IMPERATIVES
ON "THE GATES", NYC
CATSKILL MORNING OBSERVATION
THE LETTER
CLOCKING
IMPERATIVES TWO
NOTE
FOR ABBIE HOFFMAN
FOR JULIUS HOFFMAN
KU YOU
FOR K.
RITUALS
THAT MOMENT
FOR PHILIP H. SCHREYER, 1924-2005
OLD AGE
SUICIDE NOTE #1
EMPATHY