A fire in my hands: poems

Black hair - It all makes sense - That girl - Lost in a small town - Oranges - Mating season - Learning to bargain - In August - All the luck - How you gave up root beer - Eating Mexican food - Saturday at the canal - October - Kearney Park - How to sell things - Hope - The function of two e-mail accounts - Mr. Meow - Inheritance - Hitchhiking with a friend - Knowing your limits - Morning on this street - Evening walk - How I learned to fly - Some words about time - Door-to-door - Envying the children of San Francisco - Manuel and the football scrubs - Teaching numbers - How things work - Pepper tree - The boy's first flight - Brown girl, blonde Okie - Chatting with Gary Soto.