A collection of poetry attests to the author's original passion and reveals her talent for employing the precision and musicality of language in verses both comic and sad.

1200 South/2100 West -- Velorio -- Sir James South Side -- South Sangamon -- Abuelito Who -- Arturo Burro -- Mexican Hat Dance -- Good Hotdogs -- Muddy Kid Comes Home -- I Told Susan Reyna -- Twister Hits Houston -- Curtains -- Joe -- Traficante -- My Wicked Wicked Ways -- My Wicked Wicked Ways -- Six Brothers -- Mariela -- Josie Bliss -- I the Woman -- Something Crazy -- In a redneck bar down the street -- Love Poem #1 -- The blue dress -- The Poet Reflects on Her Solitary Fate -- His Story -- Other Countries -- Letter to Ilona from the South of France -- Ladies, South of France - Venice -- December 24th, Paris - Notre-Dame -- Beautiful Man - France -- Postcard to the Lace Man - The Old Market, Antibes -- Letter to Jahn Franco - Venice -- To Cesare, Goodbye -- Ass -- Trieste - Ciao to Italy -- Peaches - Six in a Tin Bowl, Sarajevo -- Hydra Night - House on Fire -- Hydra Coming Down in Rain -- Fishing Calamari by Moon -- Moon in Hydra -- One Last Poem for Richard -- For a Southern Man -- The Rodrigo Poems -- A woman cutting celery -- Sensuality Plunging Barefoot Into Thorns -- Valparaiso -- I understand it as a kiss -- For All Tuesday Travelers -- No Mercy -- The world without Rodrigo -- Rodrigo Returns to the Land and Linen Celebrates -- Beatrice -- Rodrigo de Barro -- Rodrigo in the Dark -- The So-and So's -- Monsieur Mon Ami -- Drought -- By Way of Explanation -- Ame, Amo, Amare -- Men Asleep -- New Year's Eve -- 14 de julio -- Tantas Cosas Asustan, Tantas.