NY/SF Poetry Collection: After the Festival

One of the poems in a series called NY/SF Poetry Collection with an Introduction by Alan Kaufman and a Photo Essay by Ralph Ackerman. Organized by poets, the poems in the series are:

San Francisco -- West Coast
 Katie Degentesh
  Colors Are Named for the Light Rays They Don’t Admit
  Excommunication
  I Hate to be in Love Like I Hate a Vacation
 Jack Foley
  After the Festival
  The Skeleton's Defense of Carnality
 Abie Hadjitarkhani
  To You of the Fire
 Alan Kaufman**
  Again
  He Makes Me Smell Him
  What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
  Why I Love Her
 David Meltzer**
  31:iii:98
  Waste
  What Am Jam
 Harold Norse**
  The Ex-Nun and the Gay Poet
 Eugene Ostashevsky
  Effect of Language
  I Struck Rhetorical Poses
 Alan (Prohm)
  Untitled
 Jan Richman
  An Arm & A Leg
 Margery Snyder
  1999
  Gravity, Buoyancy
  Inter-Species Conversation
  On the Kalamazoo-Chicago Flight
  She Called to Tell Me
  Signs
  Signs II
 Tarin Towers
  Fourteen Opening Stanzas From Poems That Have Never Been Written
  Thorn

New York -- East Coast
 Jim Feast**
  Why Do I Know So
 Bonny Finberg
  Delphine
 Rob Hardin
  Monk's Madrigal
 David Huberman
  Find Your Way Home
 Ron Kolm**
  JFK Remembered
 Tsaurah Litzky
  Mary Magdalene's Song
 Joe Maynard
  Gun Spelled Backwards is Dung (dedicated to Jackie Chan)
 Sharon Mesmer
  Song of Myself
 Eileen Myles**
  40th Street
 Michael Randall
   Our Bodies, Ourselves cut-up w/ Hellfire, the Jerry Lee Lewis Story
 Thad Rutkowski
  Hello, Nuremberg
 Tom Savage
  The Thief of the Heart*
 Lorraine Schein
  Cooler
 Sparrow
  Surrealist Mayoral Poem
 Mike Topp
  Adult Money
 David Trinidad**
  Monster Mash
  Fluff
  The Late Show
 Alfred Vitale
  Everybody Wants to be the Buddha
 Carl Watson
  Early Contemporary, Late Modern
 Carol Wierzbicki
  Careerist's Reading

** Artist's photograph is included in the Photo Essay.