Ganymede's Dog.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- I. -- Ganymede's dog -- In blazing black and white -- That everything's unfair has a certain justice to it -- That nothing's fair has a certain justice to it -- Only as good as the team managing your brand -- Realist paradise -- The Dancing Plague of 1518 -- Quirk earnings -- Three hunky punks and one true gargoyle -- The disposition of angels -- Wings -- Goya's dog -- II. -- Introduction of Budweiser to the gods -- Metronome dependent -- The beauty of the way, the goodness of the wayfarers -- Charming spot, inspiring prospects -- Collapse of the wave function -- Russian doll prison -- The obscure charms of the lately extinctcunning folk of New Brunswick -- Lest ye be -- MAYBE IF I SHOUT AT YOU YOU'LL TRUST IN WHAT I'M SAYING -- The Darkest Before Dawn Daycare -- Listening injury -- Breeding habits of the Spectacled Tyrant -- The New Vague -- Nimroddery -- The hour between wolf and dog -- First casualty of the Canadian Ketchup Wars -- How to survive the next Great Canadian Name Famine -- The minced oath -- III. -- The playfulness of skeletons, the sadness of bones -- Santa Anna's lost leg -- The Kazooist of Tiddlesworth -- Cynics -- Out-riddling the judge -- From your lips to Christ's ears -- The traditional piñata -- The standard lay of the case -- I am making all things new -- Hercules and the Moon Men -- The privilege of youth and beauty -- Draco's law -- Conversation in an unremarkable stairwell of the Met -- Shocking tales of redundancy -- The final decision of Gaius Petronius Arbiter -- IV. -- A short necessary treatise on humility -- I prefer the person talking herself out of something over him talking himself in -- Crazy wisdom -- The Museum of Clarity -- Drinking fountain tour of the city -- But god plain forms with elegance does crown -- You forget it in people -- The final renovation.

Takes a lot of pills to make Jesus -- Typical toxic playbook -- Young cuckoo seeks nest, bring own feathers -- The Greeks regretting the invention of theatre -- Translated to bird -- Sky burial -- Acknowledgments.

A collection of prose poems that mingles tales from the classical past with contemporary sexuality and timeless dogs.

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