Apple Records: Uncle Tomahawk hangs around the fort until he finds his own metaphor --
Boarding school philosophy, shorter, simplified edition: practical application --
My grandmothers gain nicknames by relative proximity --
Little Umma reads the ethnographer's Rorschach cards --
Big Umma delivers a quick lesson in history and survival. --
The red album. A note to those who know my family --
How Dog Street gets its name --
I believe I find evidence that I am not an alien --
Official and unofficial covers --
My siblings try to find evidence I am not an alien --
What they leave us, when they leave us --
Metropolitan Stadium, August 21, 1965 --
From Iron Man to Skywalker: 1. Half this blood, half that --
Tonto's Dog Street cousins --
Jaboozie gives me two lessons in tradition --
From Iron Man to Skywalker: 2. Tanned hide --
Wyatt Wingfoot gives us some four-color cosmic hope --
My brother quietly tries to wake us up --
Proving ground or baptism of fire --
I lose a ribbon shirt to bloodlines --
Jaboozie turns me on to Deep Cuts --
The boy who fell to the rez --
From Iron Man to Skywalker: 3. Public assistance --
Wyatt Wingfoot ends up singing that same old song --
Stupid things I buy the summer I am 13 --
I leave formal training before this opportunity begins --
Hampton's shadow crosses over us again --
From Iron Man to Skywalker: 4. Devourer of worlds --
In Spencer's, I become someone else for under ten dollars --
From Iron Man to Skywalker: 5. Amputation scars --
Jeannie teaches me some moves I don't know --
How Jaboozie and I almost lose it --
From Iron Man to Skywalker: 6. Cliffhangers and disc jockeys --
Hunger test 3. Cumulative exam --
How to be less popular in high school when you are Indian and/or poor --
From Iron Man to Skywalker: 7. Clone Wars --
Electric blanket as ouija board in sixteen parts --
Jaboozie passes me the book --
Jaboozie's sister teaches me about fire --
Beneath the constellations, the smoke moves home --
Jaboozie and I love naked eyes --
Lines spoken to me through high school and, let's face it, beyond --
May I have this dance? --
Jaboozie passes me the atlas to my future. --
Dog Street: Side A: Come together ; Something ; Maxwell's silver hammer ; Oh! Darling ; dt Octopus's garden ; I want you (she's so heavy) --
Side B: Here comes the sun ; Because ; You never give me your money ; Sun king ; Mean Mr. Mustard ; Polythene Pam ; She came in through the bathroom window ; Golden slumbers ; Carry that weight ; The end --
Get back. Peel this skin --
Are these tricks or are these treats? --
Poem to the beams in my uncle's house, empty these days --
My mother delivers a quick lesson in survival and history --
Domestic rate, Carlisle, PA, or a grandmother corresponds with her service-bound grandson --
Jaboozie brings my aunt home, unexpectedly --
Hunger test: primer revisited --
The ethnographer turns the Rorschach cards on himself --
"We had some good times anyway" --
The ethnographer leaves us a gift --
I gain a ribbon shirt in bloodlines --
Indian picnic cornbred --
Howdy prepares for the future --
And on this day, we commence --
Dog Street, July 3, 2009 --
Lost and found on Dog Street --
On New Year's Eve, my sister sends me a photo --