Subject/Theme Index
A
Abandonment
The Chambered Nautilus:53–54
Monologue for an Onion:121,
123
Adventure and Exploration
Always:14, 16–18, 22–24
Alcoholism, Drugs, and Drug
Addiction
Kindness:83, 89–90
American Midwest
At the Cancer Clinic: 40
American Northeast
The Litany:110–112
American West
At the Cancer Clinic:40–41
Angels
One Is One: 174
Anger
One Is One:159–162
A Poison Tree:196–198, 200
Apathy
Always: 27
The Artistic Impulse
The Litany: 103
Asia
Monologue for an Onion:119,
123–124
Our Side:179, 182–183
B
Balancing Opposites
Kindness: 87
Beauty
The Chambered Nautilus:62–64
The Litany: 118
Our Side:179, 189
Black Arts Movement
Seeing You: 249
Bourgeois Life
Portrait of a Couple at Century’s
End: 217C
Capitalism
A Poison Tree:206, 209–210
Chaos and Order
The Room: 235
Christianity
The Chambered Nautilus:58–59
Classicism
The Litany: 118
Not like a Cypress:139, 147
Compassion
At the Cancer Clinic: 38
Confusion
Our Side: 181
Contrast and Contradiction
Always: 16
Control
One Is One: 161
Couplet
Our Side:187–188
A Poison Tree:196–197, 199
Courage
At the Cancer Clinic:37–38,
40
The Room: 236
The Craft of Poetry
The Room: 236Creativity
Always:14, 16–18, 20, 22–24,
30–32, 34
Seeing You: 255
Three To’s and an Oi: 269
Crime and Criminals
A Poison Tree:197–198, 200
Cruelty
Kindness:83, 87, 89–90
Monologue for an Onion:
125–127
Not like a Cypress: 146
A Poison Tree:204–205
Cubism
Always:14, 16, 18–19, 28, 30–31
The Cultivation of Anger
A Poison Tree: 198
Cynicism
Always: 19
Not like a Cypress:143–144, 146D
Dadaism
Always:17, 19–20
Dance
All I Was Doing Was Breathing:
8
Death
All I Was Doing Was Breathing:
1, 6–7
Always:24–27, 29–30, 32–34
The Chambered Nautilus:53–56
For the Sake of Strangers:76–78
Kindness:86–87, 90
The Litany:100, 102–104,
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