TABLE OF CONTENTS

Writings by Ian McCluskey, age 25-30


Prologue


I. THE FOLLY OF YOUTH
Nude
(Someone Once Called This) The Folly of Youth
Once
Packing Pajamas for Sleepovers, Past College, Before Conclusions


II. WE LIVE HERE
Powells, Hawthorne
Exotic Dancer at the Ox, Missoula
Coyote Winter


III. ALL ROADS ARE PROMISE
Hitchin Desert Blacktop
Matchbook Poems


IV. LAST SUMMER & NEXT
Summer Snapshot
Swimming Hole
Poem for F. Scott


V. SIEMPRE, AMIGOS
20-Somethings
24-Hours After Mt. Hood
Gringos
Send Off
Winnipesaukee, May
Last Words


My Autobiography