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POETRY

The art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.

  1. Spanish Vernacular
  2. The Reflection in the Windowpane
  3. Piernia
  4. Leukemia Poems
  5. Blue Tease
  6. Fire Dog
  7. Bio Hazard
  8. Off the Main Road
  9. Real Suffering
  10. Innocence
  11. After the Storm—October 31, 2012
  12. The Bird
  13. Innocence
  14. el Armana
  15. Winter Woods
  16. The Mammogram
  17. American Express
  18. Doodles
  19. Even This
  20. Mother
  21. Venus in Transit June 5, 2012
  22. Heirloom
  23. The Priest of Sepia Fields
  24. The Holy Ghost
  25. As If They Could Dance Forever
  26. The Song of the Siren
  27. Broken Nightmares
  28. Peanuts at 30,000
  29. The Dream
  30. Flashlight
  31. Shouting in the House of Whispers
  32. Pose
  33. Spanish Cathederal
  34. Drama Beneath An Alder
  35. Thoughts On A Clearing
  36. Kwansaba: Donna Summer
  37. Rondeau: Rollercoaster (Relationship)
  38. I Did Not Get Rabies During Recess
  39. Moles Loose In Queens
  40. Rachael Is On The Television Screen
  41. Be Alright
  42. The Sixth Pallbearer
  43. Reverie
  44. Slipping Into Night
  45. After The Battle
  46. Oil –Well Head Sings of Sorrow
  47. Smoke Invasion
  48. Red for Sabrina, on lock-​​down
  49. Whatever
  50. Requiem for Eve: A Whiter Shade of Pale in Five Parts
  51. The Day The Poet
  52. The Oldest Profession
  53. The Red Notebook
  54. Chua Bao An
  55. Angels At An Exhibition
  56. Old Soul
  57. March 8th
  58. Inspiration
  59. I Know That
  60. To Julie at Washington Park After Gonzalo Millán
  61. Grafting
  62. Stoop Heat
  63. Flies
  64. No Direction
  65. Contraries
  66. Still
  67. Famine In Place of Bread
  68. The Eye That Cries
  69. River Euphrates
  70. Secret Garden
  71. Road To Perdition
  72. Icon(oclast)
  73. Centralia, PA
  74. All of the Dive Bars Are Gone
  75. Pastoral
  76. It’s A Living
  77. The Last Angry Man
  78. These Eternal Times
  79. Stoned
  80. The Path of Life
  81. Lesson of The Cross
  82. Mickey
  83. The Care Givers
  84. The Pale Knight
  85. Blue
  86. The Anniversary
  87. The Absinthe Drinker
  88. And the Gold of Their Bodies
  89. A Sleeping Pill Shaped Like A Snowflake
  90. The Infidel
  91. The Markets Are Down 2%
  92. Cometh The Hour
  93. Death Of A Mouse
  94. Now Showing
  95. Scars
  96. Spiders
  97. On Finding the Corpse of a Cockroach
  98. Mr. Johnson & Us
  99. At the Five ‘n Dime
  100. Buoyancy
  101. Three Trees
  102. We Are Leaving Them Behind
  103. She Didn’t Like What She Didn’t Know
  104. The Cold War at Home
  105. Sunday
  106. My Brother
  107. Studio
  108. Niger, Whore, Bitch
  109. Shiva’s Call
  110. Golden Gate Park
  111. Deer
  112. U.S. of Antagonism
  113. Artificial
  114. Entrapment
  115. Mercilessly
  116. Infatuation is Sometimes a Detestable Quality
  117. Autumnal Hymn
  118. The Passenger
  119. The Epistles
  120. Crying All The Time
  121. SKA!
  122. My Friends, I Am A Can Of Coca-​​Cola
  123. I Married Mona Lisa
  124. Stone and Story
  125. Obosi
  126. Bowlegg’d Christmas
  127. Thicker than water
  128. Night Swimming
  129. Deadly Small Things
  130. First Night
  131. Poetic Justice
  132. Dining in Hell
  133. Out of the Sunlight
  134. Madame Fortune Teller
  135. Saudade
  136. At The Moment of Anesthesia, The Mathematician
  137. Everybody’s Smiling
  138. A Poet’s Directive
  139. The Definition of Noise
  140. On Playing Musical Chairs by Myself
  141. Rejection Letter
  142. Prom Queen
  143. SABIRS
  144. Tell Me You Know Me
  145. Spam
  146. Disc Full of Promising Leaves
  147. The Axle of Your Will
  148. Seasonscape
  149. Content Words
  150. Locking Dreams
  151. Missing The Prize
  152. Lament
  153. Living in a Nuance
  154. Thunder Roll
  155. Taking the Old Dog for a Walk
  156. Richard Haupt Burington, Vermont’s “Clarinet Man”
  157. The Complaint
  158. Road Crew
  159. Demanifest
  160. The Geometry of Disappointment
  161. A Random Set of Golden Values
  162. Chant Before I Cut Your Circulation
  163. Pedestal
  164. An Unlikely Porter
  165. From Break to Dunk
  166. The Frozen Section
  167. Note to the New Hired Mourner
  168. On the Cigarette as Time-​​​​​​Travel Device
  169. Wish Fullfillment
  170. Time
  171. Linger
  172. Somewhere South of So What
  173. Things Come to Life in Amsterdam
  174. 1946
  175. Line
  176. Blackbirds
  177. Cezanne’s Self Portrait
  178. Glorified Bandit
  179. The Interruption
  180. One
  181. The End of the World Lagos, Portugal
  182. Moroccan Children
  183. Laptop
  184. Casting Out
  185. Our Indy Pacer
  186. Earstopper
  187. Questions for Your Son
  188. Walking in the Forest
  189. Airborne
  190. The Three of Us
  191. Estuary
  192. The Past
  193. A Love Poem for the Cold
  194. Junkie
  195. Graveyard Shift Atheist
  196. Easter Snow
  197. Family Ghost
  198. New Year
  199. After Midnight
  200. Retirement
  201. Formless
  202. Symbiosis
  203. Between Tongue and Teeth
  204. Arnaut de Maruelh Sings for His Lunch
  205. A Leaf among Many Leaves
  206. Bones They Lie
  207. The Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca
  208. The Forty Steps-​​​​​​​​​​​​Newport R.I.
  209. The Awe Bridge Dance
  210. Cat Burial
  211. To the Baby Behind the Glass
  212. Evidence of Us
  213. In the Light of a Cathedral
  214. Dolphined Children
  215. I dig this grave
  216. Dorian’s lips in ruins
  217. Each Halloween and lifting the door
  218. On Retreat
  219. Coming of Age
  220. Centrifrugal Force
  221. Yield Not
  222. Changeling Day
  223. BANG!
  224. Unfurling Lover
  225. Landscape of a Pool
  226. God holds His Breath to wake the night
  227. Boat Trip Down the Detroit River
  228. Fruit Moon on Lake St. Clair
  229. The Wrong Car
  230. A Period of Inattention (For Sylvia)
  231. Photo Exhibition
  232. Refuge
  233. Inside The Swell of The Sea
  234. Inspirited
  235. What Was Said to Me One Fine Afternoon
  236. Trees
  237. The Window
  238. The Double
  239. The Words on the Will
  240. The Irish Castle
  241. Lizard: In the desert
  242. Schizo stage 4
  243. Shambala
  244. Night School for children working as labors in fish storage plant
  245. The Quickening
  246. Heaven
  247. Epilogue (For Vincent Van Gogh)
  248. Figures
  249. The Comic Book of Life
  250. Numbers
  251. Parable
  252. Cedars of Lebanon
  253. Will It Be On The Test
  254. Small Craft Advisory
  255. Specialty of the House
  256. Looking At a Last Lepidopteron
  257. Something About Today
  258. Time Out
  259. A Summer’s Distance
  260. The Bow
  261. Mini-​​Mal
  262. Goose Woman
  263. Big Bang/​Big Crunch?
  264. Johnny Come Lately
  265. Before the first heart…
  266. You don’t yell across a tree…
  267. Mary Blue
  268. Letter
  269. Blood-​​borne
  270. For the Sake of Mr. Finch
  271. Becoming the Wolf
  272. Love in the time of digital: Apologies to Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  273. Boner Bob
  274. Primer
  275. Wig Hymn
  276. Longing
  277. Last Rites
  278. The Nature Of the Devil
  279. Losing My Religion
  280. Problems of Representation
  281. Untitled Meditation #14
  282. Vacancy
  283. Landmine
  284. Cold, Goodnight (for You, Me, and Yesterday)
  285. We’ll meet again someday
  286. Us alone and the long grass.
  287. Chickens
  288. Invoking Whitman
  289. Anti-​​Ode to the Lower East Side
  290. Motherhood by the Numbers
  291. Drought
  292. Sandra Hook
  293. A Child’s View of Dachau
  294. The Labyrinth at Chartres
  295. Our Mother’s Walk
  296. The Wind Blowing The Ash:
  297. i.e. got me a girl
  298. Schrodinger’s Pearls (Hilde’s Poem)
  299. The Distance
  300. Frederick Law Olmstead and the Biltmore Estate
  301. Leonard Cohen at the Bar (circa 2009)
  302. Tesla’s Time
  303. Falls Creek Male
  304. If Heaven is a Field Generated by Neurology
  305. I Stand With Kip Cootes:
  306. Ancestors’ Descent
  307. The Workman’s Song
  308. Heart Beats in a Dusty Box
  309. Gneiss: a translation
  310. Open Hand
  311. On Being Jewish in a Small Town
  312. The King’s Cellars
  313. Yellow Roses
  314. Judgment!Judgment!
  315. The Fights
  316. Graffiti
  317. Some Afternoons When Nobody Is Fighting
  318. Four-​​Way Stop
  319. Inventory
  320. The Giving Tree
  321. Undressing Denial
  322. Old Friends
  323. Somewhere Over the Vltava
  324. God, Dan
  325. Ramifications
  326. Analogous
  327. Marriage Vows and Other Lies
  328. Guitar Contest
  329. Industrial Moth
  330. Learning to Kill
  331. But Instead Has Gone Into The Woods
  332. Fear
  333. The Custodian of My Transgressions
  334. God in a Box
  335. A Break in the Day
  336. Vinotok
  337. Rain Muse
  338. Ponderings from Massanutten Ridge
  339. Snowed In
  340. Monarch Crest
  341. Ice Climbing Together