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- Category: College
- 127 Questions (3/19/02)
- Afternoon Musing (7/20/02)
- Alone, My Worth (1/5/02)
- Altars and bedposts (9/21/02)
- Am I Jesus? (10/11/02)
- An unlit firecracker decomposing in an underwear drawer (11/15/03)
- Another helping of rain (8/14/02)
- Art History is punishing (10/14/04)
- Asleep in worship, unaware I see you (9/21/01)
- Bathing, 10/8/1944 (5/7/03)
- Because you'll walk by (11/20/01)
- Beyond the River (6/28/03)
- Boy watches (8/9/02)
- But for the journey (2/14/02)
- Campus morn (12/17/01)
- Can you force me to epiphany? (12/21/03)
- Can't give you what you're worth (2/3/02)
- Cause they say I'm the lucky one (8/2/03)
- Child's walls (6/27/02)
- Clad in indigo (7/26/04)
- Cold showers (11/1/03)
- Concert's over (8/11/01)
- Copper pennies (9/7/02)
- Dark side of the moon (9/3/01)
- Daybreak (5/17/02)
- Dead plant on the countertop (5/23/04)
- Designed Living (5/26/02)
- Do you see us topple, again (3/17/02)
- Don't stop breathing (6/15/03)
- Easy as 1-2-3 CD Creator (2/16/02)
- Empty as these jars (6/11/02)
- Etched in Ice (10/28/01)
- Exploding the dreams we don't share (11/12/02)
- Family heirlooms (8/21/03)
- Flushed with the forbidden (8/3/02)
- Forbidden cricket song (5/2/05)
- Getting her off, his chest (1/25/05)
- Go fish. I don't have the cards you're looking for (5/23/04)
- Goodbye Owingsville ('92), Goodbye Elementary ('94), Goodbye School ('05) (4/9/05)
- Greece: Six months after (1/19/05)
- Greens go hunting (8/27/02)
- Happiness. . .I think not (9/13/02)
- Hash browns (after Waffle House) (2/9/05)
- Hearing your thoughts (7/4/02)
- Hindered by Love (2/12/02)
- Hip, hop in the MoMA (5/2/05)
- Holy Taint (8/26/01)
- How do I prayer? (11/5/01)
- Hug buddy (3/30/05)
- I rearrange bits on a magnetic plane (9/29/02)
- I smell of woman (1/19/02)
- I turn the radio off (6/13/02)
- If I pick one, she will be torn (5/29/03)
- In Philadelphia (1/24/05)
- In the case of the life of the mother (1/26/04)
- Its creators--us (7/3/04)
- Joined at the head (7/9/03)
- June Widow (after Saving Private Ryan) (5/5/05)
- Keep asking cause you've smbitten me. (10/23/04)
- Laughter on a wedding night (2/16/02)
- Like a Rumpke truck (7/23/03)
- Like paparazzi (6/6/02)
- Like the Guy that never got married (2/6/04)
- Little things (2/1/02)
- Lola eat a nother (11/4/03)
- Loving You Ignorantly (11/17/01)
- Mantis religiosa (only-pricks-of-protein) (1/9/04)
- Maybe the encore will save us (6/26/04)
- Me, a renegade artist? (3/17/02)
- Mediocrity redeemed (7/4/02)
- Meningitis Vaccination (1/5/04)
- Mid-Doubt (12/22/01)
- Mind if I take a photo? (1/4/02)
- Mobstones (debt would make it easier) (12/24/03)
- More than a Movie (9/12/01)
- My experiences, my words (4/13/02)
- My Mount Olympia (12/17/03)
- My pen is a thumb-- (2/20/03)
- Never free, loved. (1/10/02)
- No help wanted (3/29/02)
- No idea where I'm going (11/25/02)
- Of cricket-song (7/1/04)
- Oh, this milkshake of mine (1/7/03)
- On the back of live bait (7/16/02)
- One dog sniffs – a poet’s calling (11/8/03)
- One of these days (1/3/03)
- Only wires and air (1/1/04)
- Our magnolias blooming (4/1/02)
- Paloma: 10 years for cultivation (3/10/05)
- Parenthetical thoughts of the future (2/14/03)
- Passing the same wooden fence (9/12/02)
- Please look down momentarily (9/20/01)
- Prayer for Dead-Letter Office Unemployment (1/6/03)
- Prayer of the Widowmaker (7/7/03)
- Preparation for the hearth (4/22/05)
- Pretty models: the contraceptive of truth (7/30/04)
- Pulverize my heart (9/2/01)
- Pupils’ pupils (3/1/04)
- Putting the Parthenon on hold for poetry (8/20/04)
- Ready to be called? (4/13/02)
- Release: scribbling on hotel paper (7/1/03)
- Scarved leaves parachute (10/29/02)
- Schadenfreude (7/11/03)
- scratch a little (8/2/04)
- Scribbling an idea about an affair with the pool boy (7/4/04)
- See me, sea wood floating (8/14/02)
- She reads road signs (in love with potential) (1/15/04)
- She's all down here, all up there (8/18/03)
- Sheets chastely seduce (11/19/01)
- Should I fake my joy? (7/25/03)
- So dirty, you want to spit out your gum (8/14/04)
- Sometimes I lie (11/2/02)
- Special: follow Stephen in Athens (8/12/04)
- Staring into the sun (3/29/03)
- Stas and Effect (10/25/01)
- Step outside (5/22/02)
- Take off your shoes and stay a while (5/2/05)
- Thankful I am (11/15/01)
- The cork pops and the wine of words bubbles forth (9/20/04)
- The crushes (3/12/04)
- The diameter of these circles (12/20/03)
- The grain and the fish (8/26/01)
- The night after (8/9/02)
- The one real thing (5/12/02)
- The Passionate Love to His Shepherdess (7/24/03)
- The quiet rape (6/8/04)
- The recent mail (11/20/03)
- The red chord (3/8/02)
- The sadness (7/23/02)
- The slashing, slashing (1/28/03)
- The vermin--verses--the color field (2/15/03)
- Then sings your soul (8/29/03)
- There is no space; time stops (10/31/01)
- These god-like stones (1/20/02)
- This thawing day (12/31/02)
- Through the seasons, changed (1/25/03)
- Til death due us together (6/8/04)
- Time scuttles but doesn’t slow (11/30/03)
- Tired of saying stomach (10/15/04)
- Unpopular as innocence (thankfully) (3/15/04)
- Up There Someday (8/8/01)
- Vulture (1/5/04)
- Wailing knives twirling (10/6/01)
- Walking home (2/16/02)
- Washing the sleep oil off (6/16/03)
- Waves of tongues (2/20/03)
- We yelled for the sake of yelling our favorite songs (12/23/04)
- Wet wall (8/27/01)
- What I deserve (7/17/02)
- When black and blue combine (7/25/02)
- When homework depended on holidays (4/11/04)
- When I found out they were humans (6/15/04)
- When I stacked Bugles on fingertips (9/29/02)
- When on the mountain (3/3/02)
- When the strings and co come to town (3/1/04)
- Winter night moonrise (6/13/02)
- Words: $.99/lb. (6/3/03)
- Wouldn't change a thing (9/7/02)
- You only dream of pizza, I hear (6/8/03)
- Your dream girl (10/1/03)
- Category: High School
- Afloat (6/23/01)
- An emotional dilettante is about to tear (4/29/01)
- Are these words drugs? (4/20/01)
- Call up Captain Smith (5/11/01)
- Can I love on my own? (3/15/01)
- Check your bags at the door (5/29/01)
- Climbing (5/16/01)
- Don't care about Happiness (3/20/01)
- Drugged on fear since the first night (4/12/01)
- Every time I stop typing (3/31/01)
- For You (7/15/01)
- Gladiator (7/12/01)
- Hide you may (3/30/01)
- I am Worthy (3/3/01)
- In Your bottle (6/29/01)
- Level (5/18/01)
- Like a Parent (3/2/01)
- Long Distance Friend (3/11/01)
- Love that is a reflex (3/3/01)
- My Porch Paradox (6/6/01)
- Naked Mall Rats (5/11/01)
- New Fragile Friend (3/15/01)
- No one to romance (4/15/01)
- Online (8/1/01)
- Paths chosen (6/17/01)
- Ride Home (6/26/01)
- Should I have chased? (3/2/01)
- Sounds of huffs (6/29/01)
- Stack another thing (6/6/01)
- Still in disbelief (6/19/01)
- Sweet visual (7/12/01)
- The Face Behind the Font (3/20/01)
- The hands of the lesser (5/9/01)
- The Well (6/17/01)
- Thinking of You (III) (6/10/01)
- Totally Sure (3/15/01)
- Tropical Iceberg (5/31/01)
- Wellspring (7/17/01)
- Where have all the butterflies gone? (4/8/01)
- Worry Lane (6/21/01)
- You Come Waltzing (6/16/01)
- Category: Post College
- Blue and gray battle tunes (8/21/07)
- God had a sense of humor (3/1/07)
- I was mistaken (or that pain was post-orgasmic marriage glue) (10/15/07)
- Pommelled fruit (4/19/07)
- The planes: the shortest distance between corn (6/10/06)
- There is no animal (6/30/07)
- Tigers (or your tormentors) (1/1/06)
- Was it this man or his parents, Katrina? (9/11/05)
- What if boot camp was what it was all about (3/4/07)
- White-faced (9/26/05)
- Will they love me if I comment? (3/3/07)
- You've stopped up my pen (8/6/06)
- Category: Uncategorized
- Cancelled (11/29/99)
- Change (11/29/99)
- DReaD (11/29/99)
- Enigma (11/30/99)
- HACK (9/1/94)
- Happiness is. . . (9/20/91)
- Numbers 20 (11/29/99)
- Revised Standard Version (11/30/99)
- Y. D. EMOTIONS (11/29/99)
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Pommelled fruit
Back up against a tree,
golden foliage shelters the curves,
freckled islands, a desert
of smooth sand, gripped by palms
soaked in the sweet, salty sweat of a summer night
squeezed of the juice from a fallen fruit.
Pretty models: the contraceptive of truth
I want some ugly (just a little, please–on the side)
but I guess we have a lot of–of makeover shows,
which just goes to show the need for:
an equal opportunity leer of leg hair and some
lips to drip of metaphors and intellectual orgasms,
a mouth to keep me masticating my pens up and down,
and some hands to remove these synthetic condos
that prevent my copulation with truth
In the case of the life of the mother
“I guarantee! or your friendship back”
he promises
lay down your problems and back IN my paper tray,
I’ll journal, write now
and male them OUT next Wednesday’s
child is full of Roe, love is murder?
choosing some
aborting hundreds of little verses
and I consented to everyone, every time,
“Did it hurt when you fell from Heaven?” Trying to pick up
the paper whispers in my ear
that my pen is running up and down the page–
just like men, no commit,
my uterus expands for another and
halts its periodic ink
for my beautiful child.
