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- castaway
- Royal Coachman
- Fossil Beach
- Tell Me Where the Cows Are
- small pleasures
- falling
- Smackdown
- cross-quarter days
- Highway 17 South
- DNA
- astral ages
- Piggy Bank
- Cremains
- visionary
- Trip the Rime
- August, now and after
- heart-shaped stones
- maybe, in winter
- backwash
- ancients
- here, winter
- Sherando
- for want of water
- no-name time of day
- Farm
- Redneck Haiku
- Regina Road
- clouded
- Afton Mountain
- yesterday/today
- Migration
- universal placeholder
- Summer, finito
- Sharp-shinned
- Remembering Conway
- Collectors
- Husband Googles Travel Zoo
- You are here
- Foster's Landing
- Exploring Physics
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- Cape Charles
- What I Saw in Mexico
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- That Being Said
- Stone Cold Sexy
- Preaching to a streetlight
- Glowing Inhibition
- Big Heater
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- Wet funeral
- Where I Live Now
- Brain Cleaning & Repair
- Wednesday late, Friday early
- Future Imperfect, a Jeremiad
- Hart Crane Pantoum No. 1
- Crash
- Counter intuit
- After getting sober through a bout of Bukowski
- Eli in the Middle of the Night
- No Nibbling!
- confronting the nonconfrontational
- Theater
- Placeholders
- Epiphany on a July Morning
- Something's Wrong
- Proverbs of the Converted
- The Path
- The technological Judas delivers no kiss
- Food, Marcia, Food!
- Mule
- There's no time
- Memory and Restoration
- Gambit
- Doubting Dylan
- From the Notebook of John T. Cacciopo: A Brief Biography of Ann Coulter
- Do not speak of love or death
- Strange Times
- Hand Grenades, or The Child in Your Eyes is Exploding
- If I Felt
- March
- Rabusongu
- Cathy
- 16 Rules to help you become a Writer
- Parcel
- Sorry to have missed you
- Do Not Spank the Truth
- Suddenly Jonathan Franzen
- Dos Equis
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- where horses stood ground
- Sophie's Choice
- Through windows dimly lit
- Fatuous Dialogue #1
- The White Dogs Of West Emerald Street
- mort
- Paper Boat
- Death's Honesty -- 1
- 2 Good Hubcaps
- A Cameo (for no-one)
- mnemonic haiku
- Spectrophotometer
- Assless
- Subsistence Culture
- A Beggar's Welcome
- I Wanna Do This
- Fealty
- instead
- Jonah Enters a Fish
- Because
- Death's Honesty (Ch-2)
- Lucky Strike
- Heirloom Pendant of an Ash-Tracked Snow
- The Things They Forgot To Tell Us When They Left
- Inconsequential
- Chicken Noodle
- The Rising Tide
- Our Beautiful Sadly Revolving Broken Wheel
- Ways and Means
- Dancing with the Marionettes
- Death's Honesty (3)
- Uncle John
- Missing Letter
- The Hors d’oeurves Plate at the OH Townhouse, Eureka
- Frenchie at the Fair
- Searching for Mr. Bharath Seshardi
- Dumb Ass
- Phenomenology- Short Stack
- Flirtbooking
- Unfinished thoughts of a convex mind
- Missing
- The Bounce
- Death's Honesty (4)
- The Work of Constant Rising
- Wandering Eye
- Frozen Shells
- What Kind of Priest
- The Man With the Hairy Back
- re·frac·tion
- A Debt No Honest Man Can Pay
- Meditation on a Pomegranate
- Gravity as Destiny
- First Kiss
- Any poem is possible
- Weeds
- The Secret
- Ghost Questions
- spot-lit
- The hills above St Florent
- Showtime
- Rwanda Suite: Basketball
- Mindspeak
- crave
- On and On
- Complex
- Hollywood
- Death's Honesty (6)
- Author meets unflattering reviewer in bar
- Gasp and Dash
- music done gone pale
- Dropped stones, skimmed skin
- Bookstore Reading, Telegraph Ave, Berkeley
- Silver & Suds
- Blind Jack
- Amy-Loyd Plax
- Grunion Fishing
- September 26, 2016
- Where is Vincent Price when you need him?
- We Never Left
- Happy Columbus Day
- In search of reification
- Awaiting the End of Time
- Death's Honesty (7)
- Six Feet Over
- Sleeping late in Cahuita, Costa Rica
- My Future Husband
- This Is
- No Good Hubcaps - song
- A Book to Read the Lights By
- 3 short poems (2)
- Dead Lines
- Hotel Mechanics
- when-one-of-your-two-divorcing-dearest-friends-says-Choose-it-turns-out-both-is-not-an-option
- 3 Pieces of a Broken Heart: song
- Catholics
- New Homes / New Fears
- Death's Honesty (8)
- The wind plays Schubert
- She Rose From the Weeds
- A Small Life in Slices
- TRAUMA
- John Bonham
- I Go Gentle On You
- The Girl With No Name
- threes
- halloween haiku
- Kaleidoscope
- Ladies' Day At Sam's Place
- Life at the Brew-Ha-Ha Pub
- Not Sure If You're Actually Having Sex? I Can Help.
- Existential Dioramas
- The Laughing Buddha is Stuck Inside a Time Capsule
- Rwanda Suite: The Wild Man Scale
- Sunrise at the Cock and Cooter Motel
- Kwaazy Wabbit
- Reckonings
- As You Suspected
- One Perfect Dream
- The Seer
- Off Island
- Band Names
- The Gift Garden (Extract)
- A Waning Gibbous Moon
- #HOWRU
- Secret Lives of Cell Phones
- Poem Written While Undergoing ECT
- from Presence
- A Certain Distance
- haiku apolitical
- A Bad Year
- Hey, they forgot to count my vote!
- For my Good Boy who has no idea
- Relationship S&M
- A World of Possible Flowers
- Nothing Special
- November Light
- Mein Penthouse
- Songlines
- Bliss
- Office M
- Picture of You: Song
- Unpublished
- Untitled
- Lavender, a Liberal
- The Red Suitcase: Part 1
- Head Lines
- Figs from the jar
- Days of Thor
- The Passed Away
- A love letter to Hunter S. Thompson's hypothetical, disenchanted love child
- D Evil in the D
- The Red Suitcase: (Conclusion)
- Wonkie Eye
- Going Back in Time: Song
- 404
- “Yo Donnie, Hawyadoon?”
- After the Poison
- November Odds
- Notel Nobel
- Remember to Sing
- The Abandoned Shoe Project
- Death's Honesty (12)
- Man In The Blue Scooter
- $5 K a Day
- Like There Was No Tomorrow
- Late Night / Early Morning
- Rain Song
- December 1, 2016
- Breaking Point
- Downtown
- Our Own
- Trumphobia
- Matilda is my love
- The Sickness of your Genius
- Political Poem
- To a Pale Pair of Bright Green Eyes
- NEWS
- Bound to Stakes
- Adirondack
- Hillary's Pantsuits
- Ripped from the Headlines
- Why I like My Watches Analog
- Chrysanthemums
- My Back (Facebook) Pages*
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- Eggs
- Couples
- Marriage
- No Collar
- Santa
- Chinese Whispers
- Dark-Thirty
- About Those High Tension Wires In Our Backyard
- How Was Your Afternoon, Dear? 2
- Early Winter Haikus
- The Land Collector
- TOP TEN LIST
- The Safety of Breakers
- The Medicine
- Year End Closeout
- In the Alley
- No Regrets
- How Circular Turns Infinity
- A Christmas Story
- Rejection
- Believing Everything I Read In Your Upturned Eyes
- Sonnet for a Unicorn
- The Boot
- Praying in bed
- the cold the day left
- Small Snow Haiku.
- On the Rocks
- A One-eyed Polar Bear Tap-dancing On A Polaroid Of Satan Dressed As Gandhi
- Stars and Smiles
- What It Took To Be God
- Downtown
- Another "Accidental" Tryst
- Of Cameramen and Death Squads in Tbilisi
- The Committee
- Unsent
- moon/light
- Road Trip
- Scratching into January, 2017
- Zen Yoga Mind Over Body Food Prep Hair Net
- Descent on Six Wheels
- What He Knows What She Knows What You Know
- Moriarty lets her hair down
- A city in the forties
- Vacation
- Edward Ogle the Ninth
- We Have Our Eye On You, Too
- A Message From Darryl Price
- From This Distance
- Breakfast
- The Man Who Couldn't Move
- Advice to the Lovelorn
- The most tender thing
- Spiced Nuts
- tears, et cetera
- Blood on Her Hands
- The Rune
- The Small Boat Row Told Through a Rough Dungeon Window
- symbols
- Texas Spleen
- Horace
- Feb 1
- Watch Closely the Raven
- Reba, Garth, and Dunn
- Marcel Unchained
- Parts
- Guinness for Iron
- A Monologue About Skyscrapers
- The oranges are dreaming
- Feb 5
- The Next Landscape
- Feb 8
- Sex & Love Addicts Anonymous
- Lover's Spat
- Thumbing For a Ride
- juvenile haiku
- Tribe
- Emily Dickinson in New York
- Fear the Future: 25 Brief Tales in Various Keys of Woe, Fear, and Loathing
- Moon collar
- The Angel Closes the Rain
- Crooning
- Postcard
- Beethoven
- Another Poem About the Moon
- Not Lao-tzu's Yellow Brick Road, i - xvi
- Seven Haiku for Sad and Scary Times
- The Atheist of Mirrors
- Neapolitan
- Dog Years
- Perhaps No One Is Immune to Memory Distortion
- BACK IN THE USSUSSUSSR
- Some Kind of Compass
- Pull Another String
- Liking in "The Scarlet Letter"
- The object of my affection....."Red, red wine - Will thy fresh lips ever meet mine"
- Diagnosis
- Hardaway's Poems Piss Off DC Bigwig
- Digging a Hole to the China Sea
- Homer
- Forty Days of Fasting
- Bangs
- Our Last Night at the Nunnery Motel 2.0 in Milano
- Not Lao-tzu's Yellow Brick Road, xvii - xxvii
- Walking With The Moon
- Two Weeks in a Dristan Land
- Not Lao-tzu's Yellow Brick Road, xxviii - xxxvii
- He's Just Not That Into You -Part I
- Lunch at Luigi's
- Animus and Vitriol
- Sounds from the Sun
- Procedural
- A New Notion about an Old Story
- Pirate Ship
- Danger Above, Danger Below
- Pterodactyls
- 50 Ways to Leave Your Facebook
- Not Lao-tzu's Magna Carta, xlvi - liv
- Eel Fishing, Leahi Beach
- version
- Summer Drive
- Morning and Arachnophobia
- yet mo bands
- The Grilled Saint
- chicken little considers the sky again (a parable for our time)
- Spot
- Louis Belfast
- Resource Management
- A Stubborn Stain
- The Imprint of Necessity
- Three haikoos
- Sin Curve
- Broken Waters
- Not Lao-tzu's Magna Carta, lv - lxiii
- Worms Shouldn't Drink Whiskey
- Dinner With the Footnotes
- When the Muse Abandons You
- Trompe L'Oeil
- Song: Got a Sixth of a Cow In the Freezer
- The Ogontz Branch
- The King's Snit
- Water Break
- Not Lao-tzu's Magna Carta, lxiv - lxxii
- Dithyrambic
- What To Believe
- Texas Weather Triptych
- A Shroud Over Me
- Strange
- At the Site of Jonah’s Burial
- To my own two feet
- The Secret of Belief
- Love Me Like It's Midnight
- A Poet in a Coffeeshop in the Motherfucking Nineties
- Welcome to the Dark Walls
- Kite Flying
- Staves 3 and 4 from "Edju"
- Strange and Silent Hands
- Cloudstopper
- Solid
- Museo Libo
- Napomo 17: April 1-6
- Still Mo Bands
- Window
- Wingwise
- Streets of Gold
- Saturday TV with Dad
- Christ walks the streets of Venice
- The Lost Clouds
- Manliness!! *urp*
- Bardo
- Napomo 17: April 7-12
- Salzburg
- Passion
- Beasts
- When the wind/sky really is God
- V E R V E I N E
- Manifesto
- Tomorrow
- the morality of pens: a sonnet
- Deadly duel: Blow v. Teach
- masters of their trade
- Melancholy
- Paws in Snow
- Weed Fire
- Napomo 17: April 13 - 18
- Hands of a City
- Excerpt (Writing With Wine)
- Plant Me
- 404
- A Story Told Over Dinner
- How To Train Mules
- On an Iceberg of Words
- Metro Retrofitting
- even from the moon
- James Dean
- The Day Nixon Died
- Napomo 17: April 19 – 24
- Boots/Weather Predictions (Two Poems)
- BRAILLE
- God's Personal Microphones
- Stimulated by Miracles
- Napomo 17: April 25 - 30
- A Bench With A Name
- No doubt... no donuts
- When I'm Sixty-Four (Semantic Satiation)
- Starlight
- How to Stop Doing and Be
- Depths
- Boardroom Bullshit
- A Shot at Pool
- Ghosts
- news through a window
- Against the Wall
- Away
- To the Manchester Children's Monster
- Peace in the Backyard
- Love?
- No Hay Bandaid
- Fuck Men!
- Dove call
- Portfolio
- When Spectacle Replaces Ritual,
- exile on and off the road
- All Dogs Are Needy
- The Cliffs
- INGOB
- Zombies to Mars
- Eskimos Happened to Come Wandering By
- Quantum Quandary
- The Ring of Harvest
- two square verse notes for Mr. S.
- Heartlong
- Silence
- Absence
- The River Flows
- (Platter of) Figs and Oranges Set to Organ Music
- Moon Talk
- Death Is No Big Deal.
- Sacrifices of Famished Promise Made to Apology
- February
- an occultation casts a narrow silence
- Tawny Frogmouth
- Jack-in-the-Box U-Haul
- The Autobiography of the Falsehoods Which Are Not Love
- Rescue
- The Perplexed Follow Their Own Guidance, Merci
- The World is Bigger
- Latté plus
- AntsBirdsCoffee
- Imminent Weather, Five AM
- Ilex Cahokia and A Common Piece
- Sugar Desire
- Axiology and Semantics: Expiration Dates
- Wanna Bet?
- Space Program
- Walking
- Beer and Cancer
- Old Penny
- Just the Facts
- Star Heart
- Delusions Well-Hid from Myself
- Mommy
- Bird on Gravel
- Missed Connections
- The Winner
- Bring Down the Babies
- Straight to Jimbo
- Little Oddities
- A Late Encounter with a Circular Future
- The Mender
- On Global Warming
- My Hot Rod and the Redhead
- Despite Your Faith
- The Stop
- What We Give
- Inmate Words
- Jackpot
- Elvis, Mosquitoes & Marilyn Monroe -- What I Learned From Magazines This Week
- Reflections
- First Love
- Fake Empire (Thanks Matt)
- Please Help Support My Attempts at Being Funny
- Life Apart
- The Nightingale
- The Dry World
- Holes
- Harvesting Sunflowers
- The Fetishist
- Calling All Feathers, Do You Hear Us?
- Story by Committee
- Auden at Swarthmore
- Honoring Heritage
- Daily Living
- haiku not much carved
- The Work of Constant Rising
- The Well
- Version - 2.0
- Bodies Approaching Rest
- Dead Poets
- Of Life
- Three Short Poems
- Make Not Thy Head a Grave
- First the Newborn Birds on High and Then the Awful Climbing Beasts
- Blurred Waters
- Stones
- To See Who's There
- Four from “Autobiographies”
- 2+2=4
- Unseenly
- In the Garden
- The Catcher and the Caught
- Gnomeland
- What's a Horse without a Loofah?
- Balloon Seller
- Monday
- Circumstance
- The Player
- I'd Be Happy To Date You When Hell Freezes Over -- One Single Librarian's Collection Of Online Dating Profile Turnoffs
- I Would Make the Worst Cable News Anchorwoman Ever
- Fascination
- Sparrow and Mockingbird Greet the Dawn
- Language
- Out of the Woods
- hendecasyllabic moon
- Serrated Leaves
- November Is The Month Of Dying
- Herd
- Within You and Without You
- marc bolan
- The Bedbugs
- An Extremely Complex Fall Evening
- Kissing In a Warm Car
- Jesus, Zombie
- Echo
- Painting with Big Mama
- What Gorillas 'Talk' About When Gorillas 'Talk' About Love
- Time Change in Florida #2
- Alone
- A Death of the Bed
- Over Fifty
- Boil
- Got A Light
- Cornelius van Linjpleel's Contributions to the Study of Etruscan Tombs
- First Date
- Perilous Joy
- Towards the End of Memory
- Librarians! Are You A Book Whisperer, A Truth Wizard, Or an Information Goddess?
- Damn Sure Right
- Work Room
- Weight
- The New Year
- Footnote
- Santa's stuck
- Bridges Are a Lot Like Long Corridors
- lament of Liu Ch'e . . . while elsewhere--
- ROAD TRIP
- With My Eye
- Three Short Pieces
- Mr. Creeping Hands, Gum-Popping Granny and Crabby Newspaper Guy: Welcome To Your Local Library
- Wayward Souls
- American Passage
- Paper Horse
- Wolf Moon
- Cardboard Suitcase
- Curves
- Late at Night
- The Lonely Genius
- Otherwise Chaos
- Little Hands
- eleven by eleven by five
- various verses
- Framed
- Eggman
- The Conversation
- What I Learned About Death While Eating Dark Chocolate
- Untitled
- Confinement
- new world
- Away
- Writing Prompts
- The Point
- Wild turkey chase
- Lapidary
- Abra Cadaver
- empty
- From The Chronicles of His Demise
- Trouble behind, trouble ahead, and you know that notion's stole from the Dead
- Bone & Air
- A Cherry-Pink Moment
- a chat between Li Bai and Du Fu
- philanthropy from a cardboard box + a detour to Han-shan
- Urgencies
- In an authentic Irish pub in Las Vegas
- The Planet Will Erase Us
- Waves of Memory
- Puppet X, 1
- Her Alphabet
- What is Retirement?
- Bricks
- More from the Chronicles of His Demise
- Svalbard
- The Little Things (three versions)
- Moles & Scraps
- after
- How to Fuck Kayne West (Up the Ass) by Donald Trump
- The Turning
- Various
- Caged Light
- Oops...
- Morning Thoughts (5)
- House Next Door
- Summer, 1995.
- 21st Century Living
- four haiku
- Thanksgiving, 2018
- Pitcher
- Morning Thoughts (6)
- Desire: First Love Poem
- Re-valued
Thank you for the read, Kitty. :)
HI kitty, Thanks so much for reading and commenting on Ilex Cahokia.
I agree with Mathew--you are quite the light. I'm glad you're here.
Thank you for your kind comment on my High School piece, Kitty.
Thanks for reading.
Hi Kitty, thanks for reading and commenting on my little poem
Welcome Kitty, I have liked what I have read of you.
Welcome to Fictionaut, Kitty! May your fierce and friendly light shine undaunted.