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2014

  • Loquacious (imagined granddaughter)
  • Photoshop® (the shortest novel imaginable)
  • The Disciplines
  • They killed Gwen Stacy in the film too
  • a bad day (not the worse part)
  • a single rail
  • anniversary ceremonies (the things we cannot incinerate so we lie)
  • blue blood
  • chalk
  • colors (the rainbow you)
  • criminal acts (black&white)
  • dark chocolate
  • diligence (skeleton key)
  • dislocation
  • do you
  • everyone believes in god (on the paradox of being wholly human)
  • glimpse you
  • hello
  • i am the voice of reason (breathing you breathing me)
  • i do not fall in love
  • i still lie (he thought)
  • imagination&recollection (i come to tell you everything)
  • impending doom
  • j was young&happy (and everyone hated her for it)
  • lies, paralysis, & all the things we cannot recover
  • miracles & dust
  • misfire (trigger warning)
  • other men have squandered this
  • polish (this did not happen)
  • rising sun, you (solstice)
  • rooms and spoons (i watch you with my fingertips and palm)
  • secrets between my granddaughter and me (watch out world)
  • selfie
  • shaving over scars (the art of not falling backward)
  • she was risen
  • small sad songs playing in my mind
  • something i learned watching a young 20s couple at barnes and noble
  • spoken (we swallow words like cyanide)
  • summer poem
  • teleportation, time travel, & dreams (the empiricists have no clothes)
  • the chemistry of my sorrow (skin&bone)
  • the death of us (redux)
  • the moon is nothing
  • tracing (everything that matters)
  • train
  • unchosen
  • warning: pay attention
  • we all fail (you coming new to us)
  • withering plants, bloat kings, & hangovers from dreaming of you
  • you have asked me why i walk so fast

2013

  • 52 (hurtling)
  • Anomaly (imagined child)
  • Manifest destiny
  • The 451 App (22 August 2022)
  • Yen To Dollar (notes on a gifted child as an adult)
  • a couple of brief couplets
  • a few words about being wrong & after the monsoon (holding on pt. 2)
  • a short poem about a hollow object
  • abeyance
  • all the king’s horses (re-assembly required)
  • april fool
  • balloon (too light for this world)
  • believer
  • broken heart
  • bruises, horns, flakes of dried blood, & new books
  • child (you have you)
  • child of my child (exponential love)
  • crinoline (&)
  • distance
  • fist (under the rug)
  • gasoline (callouses)
  • god
  • here (belong)
  • hindsight
  • holding on (our zen odyssey)
  • hoods (justice pt. 2)
  • i stood too long at the edge of us (tighter)
  • impressions
  • in case you ever wonder
  • in light of everything (snow blind)
  • in the absence of you (men are crude)
  • justice
  • knowing
  • lamb of my heart, you (on being sheepless)
  • lavender silk monkeys
  • loneliness is weightlessness (dumbfounded)
  • measured (this is what she learned)
  • midnight (these rituals of recreation)
  • on second thought
  • prayer (inhale)
  • razor blade
  • recognition (the proximity of imagined cars)
  • sadness (dark chocolate)
  • scales (homophones)
  • she drew herself
  • sleeping alone
  • somebody’s somebody who matters (the art of wanting)
  • spring (en route)
  • stitches
  • tarantulas sharks black mambas zombies & witches
  • tears remain tears (time travel pt. 2)
  • text sent to my daughter on her wedding day
  • the absence of you
  • the archeology of white people
  • the economy of mix tapes (bygone)
  • the happiness of new books first read
  • the kindness school (beyond the archeology of white people, pt. 2)
  • the last straw (touching)
  • the problem with the New World
  • the proximity of entrances and exits (the only teenager i ever knew how to be)
  • the truth
  • they ran (15 April 2013)
  • this film of you (Transylvania haunts me)
  • this is the reason i failed you (a polaroid)
  • this quest for sweetness
  • tide & moon
  • unable (the day rose)
  • virtue or beauty (she reads in class as if nothing else matters)
  • wake (i will try)
  • walls
  • warning: writers (if)
  • what does a curve weigh?
  • which came first (or does it matter): out of nothing
  • wine song
  • wonderland (Yen To Dollar pt. 2)
  • you (i do not think)
  • “invisible & weightless” (time machine)

2012

  • 3ight (infinity)
  • a poem on being desired, being desirable
  • acrylic (heartless)
  • amper&and (& other stories)
  • artifacts (redux)
  • as if (faerie tales for mortals)
  • autopsy
  • bone-deep (after the scarring)
  • calculating (the erased)
  • cautious (resignation)
  • chemotherapy (poetry is fabrication)
  • choice (Vote!)
  • confessions (this bay of love)
  • confidant (nothing will ever be to me)
  • cover (crestfallen)
  • cured (when)
  • delicious (just deserts)
  • directions (lather rinse repeat)
  • disembodied
  • dragons (R.I.P.)
  • fascism
  • feasting (how the wealthy thrive)
  • fight (because & the sweetness of golden pears)
  • filled (a second heart)
  • Fisherman and The Siren (vortex of desire)
  • flirting with a life only spoken
  • frail (drop of blood in a glass of red wine)
  • grazing (koan)
  • half-life (weightier than plutonium)
  • happiness (the only me i’ll ever be)
  • here is my secret (shhhh)
  • i miss you most (possible)
  • in the time after the cure (the melancholia of broken hearts)
  • inside you, inside me (flying, falling)
  • intimacy (men&women)
  • layers (stranger in my own dreams)
  • light (the irretrievable allure of outdoors)
  • longing for thunderstorms
  • loss is just a word
  • mourning (the arc of my days)
  • my reptilian brain (beware the buffalo): anniversary of my sorrow
  • my zombie life
  • on imprisonment and freedom
  • our rare sober days (uncanny)
  • powder, frosting, & slices of lime
  • precious infidelity (bibliophilia)
  • reading a biography (in the absence of you)
  • recollection (dreams blossom like a garden)
  • relief (naming)
  • rendezvous (what lonely people do, pt. 2)
  • rings (grounded)
  • saving
  • sirens, faerie tales, & all of my trippings (howl)
  • taking her pulse (struck)
  • Tarame never had a daughter (Anomaly)
  • thank you (& tales of a nude man)
  • the archeology of happiness (wherefore)
  • the consumers (crimes against the market)
  • the everyday motion of artifacts
  • the gathering (MayDay)
  • the world
  • there is this thing of us and always (the indelible)
  • these boxes (an antiquarian's Valentine’s Day card)
  • these gaps of us
  • these prepositions of love
  • time (all my calendars are the same)
  • time travel (in this time after the End)
  • to lie in bed (appeasement)
  • tracing, holes, self-righteousness, & superpowers (crimes of passion)
  • upon watching The Matrix 13 years late (Nerd Rules)
  • watcher (these novels and films)
  • what lonely people do (we)
  • words are a meager thing at the bottom of a grave
  • writer hermit vampire (artifice is a testament)

2011

  • a banana, peanut butter, & two slices of wheat bread (a koan)
  • candles smoldering like wine (you turn me on)
  • carpenter's song
  • coffee spoon worn (25 january 2011)
  • delicate (rice paper)
  • disappeared (put aside, necessarily)
  • empty
  • endemic (this moment called you)
  • Hunting Island, SC (wilderness)
  • in the middle of a full-moon summer night
  • it was at that moment (desire in a time of absence)
  • let's (lover's request)
  • liar (the only true you ever knew)
  • no other (snowflakes and ashes) pt. 1
  • now (kiss)
  • people do this (masks)
  • poverty and poetry
  • precipice (falling & the fallen)
  • reading Foucault while making spaghetti
  • seed of happiness and peace
  • shoes (did you know)
  • sins of her father (gods and kings and men of all kinds)
  • surface (volcanoes and the other side of gone) pt. 2
  • surrender (when they come for me)
  • tarame
  • tethered (this inertia of love)
  • the constant narration of things unsaid
  • the math of us (stages of grief)
  • these things
  • tracing (Du'a)
  • trap door (diamonds, fire, and honey)
  • we have lain
  • words

2010

  • and then we stopped wearing watches
  • avalanche (of antique books & fear)
  • bitterness (if it weren't for me)
  • boa (wearing my daughter around my neck)
  • exhaustion (upon watching Sylvia)
  • god (when humans kiss)
  • hanging lovers (recollection)
  • heart surgeons, astronauts & new lovers
  • heirloom, token, talisman (peace is an object given)
  • rewriting hansel & gretel (satiate)
  • saturnine (a belly full with stone)
  • she fell in love with words one day
  • she found herself
  • some times (disguise)
  • the intoxicating (and thus the war)
  • these metronomes
  • vampire mood

2009

  • i can't like other people
  • lie with you
  • listless (an upright life)
  • living the hour over (fearless)
  • lovers (no. 9)

2008

  • aching
  • horea
  • love & the promise of love
  • nails polished
  • no one teaches us
  • quilting
  • semiotics: nothing done in haste
  • sleeping (faerie dust has nothing on us)
  • tarot cards & tea leaves
  • the language of should
  • yellow wood to bare

Undated and Pre-2008

  • acetylene (2003)
  • billboard
  • blouses & skirts
  • bones of contention
  • carved pierced illustrated
  • cinco de mayo
  • drawn to two
  • eminence grise
  • facades & fingertips
  • half-life (2004)
  • honey
  • if—pining (my three-legged-table life)
  • Mary (sea of bitterness)
  • melting
  • michael has a beautiful voice
  • of anne sexton—and my lover (periwinkle & lavender) (2004)
  • rocks, scissors, paper—stoned
  • she could
  • the me not me
  • things built & things uncovered (2007)
  • wishing away the bars
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