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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)
- Dilation and extraction (6/8/08)
- 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/-1)
- 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)
Schadenfreude
“You like Thai?”
I laugh. This guy is wantin’ it bad.
His goods clear customs.
“Yeah, I like spicy.”
Waiting. . . Waiting. . .for the pickup line
Still waiting.
He smiles. Pulls out a pack of cigs
“One of my co-workers buys fifteen cartons when he visits his mom in Canada and sells ‘em for five at work”
“Cig dealers? That’s a riot.”
He looks around. So I am not only woman in the room.
Self-confidence is sexy; self-affinity is sexier.
“You seen those Brazilian murals down the street?”
“No. No, I haven’t.”
“I’ve got a smoke. I’m sorry.”
Yeah, you’re sorry–you just got here;
And I’m not watching your drink.
Turns and steps outside in front of the window;
talks to two tanks, and a Frenchi;
coughs looking at me looking back at the empty glass;
wraps himself around the Frenchi.
What kinda girl did you think I was?
Frenchi crosses back across the window–alone.
Smile.