Summary

Part III, “Dog Street,” begins with two drawings of apples; the second drawing features a self-portrait of the author and the title “Side A / Dog Street.”

In the “Come Together” poems, Gansworth picks up his graduation gown. He wonders if he will remain close with his reservation friends after they graduate high school. Gansworth's aunt and uncle come to the reservation for his graduation from their home in Las Vegas. He wonders if they recognize in him the same “drive / that took them from their home” (193).

In the “Something” poems, many students are shopping for college dorm necessities with their parents, but Gansworth, with no college plans, feels lost and adrift.

In the “Maxwell's Silver Hammer” poems, Gansworth gets a job working at a junkyard where he searches through scrap looking for valuable metal. He frequently cuts himself and ends...