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02-07-12
COUNTING ALL THOSE STARS
02-05-12
THE RECOVERY ROOM
01-30-12
STALE
01-20-12
HER KISS
01-10-12
AN OPEN LETTER TO MY DEFRIENDER
12-20-11
FEAR
12-20-11
persistence of passion
12-20-11
THE HABIT
12-18-11
A SMALL BOY SPITS
12-18-11
COMMUNION
12-14-11
THE WAY I SEE
12-13-11
Caught in this fate
12-12-11
FELT MY FALL
11-30-11
Sparkling red wine
11-26-11
SWALLOW GOD, SPIT POLITICS
11-22-11
A CRUSH OF SNOW
11-21-11
NOTHING
11-11-11
THE BUS RIDE TONIGHT
11-11-11
ODE TO THE HUMAN
11-10-11
TERRYCLOTH ALARM CLOCK
10-28-11
THE CHEATING HARP
10-15-11
THE SUN
10-13-11
LIFE
10-05-11
SKAGIT
10-04-11
WOMAN
09-28-11
KILLING OURSELVES
09-27-11
UNTITLED
09-26-11
I CAN’T FORM A LINE
09-19-11
INSOMNIATIC PULSE
09-15-11
THE LAST DRIP
09-09-11
Consumption by night
09-08-11
PLANTS
09-03-11
I HAVE DREAMS SOMETIMES
09-01-11
MEMENTO
08-28-11
PIGEONS IN THE PARK
08-28-11
SOME WOMEN
08-28-11
CONTEMPLATION FROM TOP TO BOTTOM
08-28-11
IT
08-27-11
ONE DAY
08-21-11
FRIENDLY ADVICE
08-17-11
The people who claim marriage
08-08-11
HOPE
08-07-11
SUMMER JOB
08-02-11
DEKALB
07-21-11
SLOW WAIT
07-17-11
Conversation with a telephone pole
07-15-11
Life; My flooding drizzle
07-11-11
Spiders in sawdust.
07-06-11
SLEEPLESS
07-01-11
She looks at me blank
06-20-11
Last Night
06-19-11
Ripping the hairs
06-19-11
NATURE
06-18-11
401K
06-13-11
WALKING IN CIRCLES PUKING ON GRAVES
06-13-11
BLOCK
06-10-11
OUR SUN
06-10-11
FRONT ROW CENTER
06-06-11
PURSUIT OF GREATNESS
06-02-11
You were
05-31-11
While in the crosswalk
05-31-11
THE GARDEN WALL
05-25-11
THE WORST
05-23-11
FATE OF THE BULL
05-22-11
In my bed
05-20-11
MAYBE NEXT TIME
05-20-11
TITLES THAT DO NOT SUCK
05-20-11
THERE WILL ALWAYS BE
05-17-11
A difference of opinion
05-15-11
FEAR AND THE CONCEPT OF TOMORROW
05-14-11
CAUSE OF DEATH
05-09-11
IRRITATING
05-07-11
INTERMISSION
05-05-11
CLOUDY
04-24-11
Lemon Meringue
04-18-11
Sleeping
04-16-11
Before I got out
04-16-11
EXCUSES
04-15-11
TORTOISE SHELL
04-14-11
CLIPPING NAILS
04-10-11
TRAFFIC
04-10-11
PATCHING BRICK
04-08-11
SKIN ON
04-05-11
As I get older
04-05-11
Refill
04-03-11
AGAINST THE TIDE
04-02-11
Swallowing The Fly
04-02-11
Abandoned Umbrellas
04-01-11
The egg was blue
03-31-11
WORK
03-30-11
LOVE
03-29-11
I cringe in the night
03-28-11
A tsunami in Japan
03-27-11
AMBITION
03-26-11
You can’t tame a butterfly.
03-25-11
DEAD DOGS DON’T HOWL
03-23-11
CONSUMPTION
03-23-11
1892
03-21-11
Underneath the clouds
03-21-11
VAN GOGH IN CHICAGO
03-19-11
COMING BACK FROM GOING OUT
03-19-11
THIS COP
03-19-11
SCRAPING CLEAN THE PALETTE
03-19-11
SUCCESS
03-19-11
CRUNCH
03-19-11
HARVEST
03-17-11
NEW YORK STRIP
03-17-11
PENANCE
03-16-11
autodidact
03-16-11
FAILURE
03-14-11
LOVER (chewing gum etiquette)
03-10-11
flood
03-08-11
In my dream last night
03-07-11
I VISIT DEATH
03-06-11
STALE DAY OLD
03-05-11
Even I
03-02-11
WOMAN DRIVERS
03-02-11
THE SENTIMINTALITY OF ANTS
03-02-11
Counting Sheep
03-01-11
The violets of mid-afternoon
02-27-11
Can I take your coat?
02-25-11
A salt water croc
02-24-11
Moth on lampshade, lit
02-22-11
Where I Grew Up
02-20-11
INHERITANCE
02-18-11
His small boy ears
02-17-11
MY TURN TO CROSS
02-17-11
THE WILD BOAR
02-16-11
Poison frogs at nighttime
02-15-11
Bruised
02-14-11
VALENTINES DAY
02-13-11
FRUITLESS YEARS
02-13-11
I Watch Award Shows
02-13-11
Credibility
02-11-11
FOR YOU
02-11-11
DONUT HOLE
02-10-11
THE DUNK TANK
02-07-11
COMING DOWN CAPITOL HILL
02-07-11
ON MY GOOD DAYS
02-05-11
Conception of Death
02-04-11
LICKED
01-30-11
WHAT IF?
01-28-11
FRAILTY
01-27-11
OUTPUT
01-26-11
I decided to leave.
01-25-11
DOUBLE SHOT MASOCHIST
01-20-11
LYING IN THIS BOX
01-18-11
SERVES THEM RIGHT
01-17-11
THE GENIUS
01-16-11
GENTLENESS
01-15-11
FEVER
01-14-11
TAR PITS
01-12-11
EDUCATION
01-11-11
FIRST SNOW
01-06-11
Clogged sink
01-06-11
LIKE CHUCK TAYLORS ON A WIRE
01-06-11
Caged
01-06-11
BACON
01-06-11
A GOOD WOMAN
01-06-11
DANCING
01-06-11
DEPARTURE
01-04-11
EXODUS 1:1:11
01-02-11
DIAL TONE
01-02-11
KILLING TIME
01-01-11
THE BEST IS
01-01-11
This night, the next night, and all nights after that
01-01-11
DEAREST FRIENDS
12-30-10
MOUSTACHE ATTEMPT
12-30-10
METER
12-30-10
WET MATCHES
12-29-10
LAMBEAU SYNDROME
THE LEGACY OF BRETT FAVRE
12-28-10
BAD CORK
12-28-10
DON’T CHASE BUTTERFLIES—
BUY A POSTCARD INSTEAD
12-28-10
NOTHING BUT GARLIC FARTS
12-27-10
DOORMAT
12-27-10
GRANDMA’S DENTURES
12-26-10
Getting some air
12-26-10
KEEPING THE CORK IN
12-24-10
PREQUALIFIED!
12-24-10
The Tragedy of Bones
12-24-10
THE ASS RAPERS
12-23-10
A HISTORY OF WHORES
12-23-10
Borrowing a Cup of Sugar
12-22-10
The Tragedy of Faces
12-22-10
TROMBONE LESSONS
12-21-10
Rita
12-20-10
Of seagulls and homeless
12-20-10
EGG
12-19-10
Underpass on Route 66
12-19-10
Jesus Christ, the Lawn Ornament
12-17-10
CRAZY BLOOD
12-14-10
AFTER DINNER MINT
12-13-10
The Gingerbread House
12-13-10
FINISHING THE SAKE
12-13-10
FAT CHANCE CINNAMON
12-11-10
Applesauce, Hungry girl, Beating off
12-10-10
HONEY JAR
12-10-10
Celebration of Bed Wetters
12-10-10
BEST FRIENDS
12-08-10
The Hills Of My Home
12-08-10
CONQUEST OF THE WRITER
12-07-10
Posters of Neil Armstrong get rolled
12-07-10
AN APPLE FOR THE TEACHER
12-06-10
CHASING THE RED BIRDS
12-05-10
BORROWING FROM FRIENDS
12-01-10
TRANSIT
12-01-10
A GREAT DIVIDE
11-30-10
Stroopwafel Blonde
11-29-10
TEETH CLEANING
11-29-10
untitled
11-28-10
RODEO CLOWN
11-27-10
Listen Carefully.
11-27-10
Angry Midnight
11-26-10
BLACK FRIDAY GRAY
11-24-10
REJECTION SLIP
11-24-10
Paper Mask
11-23-10
A lovely poem about dolphins
11-22-10
COLD EXPERIENCE
11-22-10
THERMOSTAT
11-22-10
THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO GO
11-20-10
Going Without
11-20-10
CERTIFICATION
11-20-10
GRADUATE
11-19-10
FRIDGE MAGNET POETRY
11-19-10
HARD SELL
11-18-10
In the Taxi
11-18-10
elogy
11-17-10
TEN CENTS
11-16-10
THE TIME IS NOW
11-16-10
DURING MY 3rd BEER
11-15-10
PUNCH
11-15-10
MATURITY
11-15-10
RELUCTANT MOTHERS
11-13-10
At dusk
11-12-10
THIRTY
11-11-10
ALMOST 30
11-10-10
Loosey
11-10-10
THESE LAST DAYS
11-09-10
NICE TRY
11-08-10
TICK TOCK
11-08-10
Nights after November
11-08-10
TAPPING THE WELL
11-07-10
Levitation or LOVE
11-06-10
I do not beat
11-06-10
AVALANCHE
11-06-10
ping piNG PING
11-05-10
Gallery Chatter
11-03-10
RAW
11-03-10
WALLET SIZED
11-01-10
RAIN
10-30-10
ORANGE
10-30-10
SYRUP
10-30-10
DIG
10-28-10
Cascade
10-26-10
SLEEP
10-24-10
LEAVE ME ALONE
10-23-10
28
10-22-10
a great fall
10-22-10
the next
10-22-10
Torte
10-21-10
IT
10-20-10
Saving me for Sundays
10-20-10
Apple Core
10-19-10
vinum aegrum
10-16-10
Flight
10-13-10
My anonymous Midwest.
10-12-10
Yellow Pears
10-11-10
Ma-mah
10-11-10
Pay as you EXIT
10-09-10
Granny
10-08-10
Performing for you
10-07-10
Whistle
10-06-10
promises
10-04-10
Outsmarting the Tall
10-02-10
procession
09-30-10
are gone at last
09-29-10
Coming back again
09-29-10
untitled song
09-28-10
Breakfast?
09-27-10
ᵧddo˩
09-26-10
the dark hall
09-25-10
Prick
09-25-10
swarming
09-24-10
Naked on the bed
09-23-10
at night
09-21-10
thick like sap
09-20-10
Skyline
09-20-10
Resistance
09-19-10
Lover Lover Lover Lover Lover Lover Lover,
09-18-10
Defined
09-17-10
Jars of Glass
09-17-10
Friend
09-15-10
WORD SALAD
09-15-10
bad poetry
09-15-10
lover
09-12-10
Gloomy Sunday
09-10-10
Equalizer of Experience
09-06-10
LOVE
09-01-10
Bleeding My Trees
09-01-10
Last Night on Earth
08-31-10
daydream at a funeral
08-25-10
vinyl
08-23-10
love song
08-22-10
The Warbler
08-21-10
the atheist in love
08-19-10
Clever
08-17-10
confession
08-15-10
The End of the World
08-11-10
No Family
08-11-10
Tragedy of Dreams
08-11-10
Breakfast
08-05-10
hang
08-05-10
the deer trophy
08-03-10
garbage disposal afterlife
08-01-10
without me
08-01-10
Washington D.C.
07-31-10
red thread
07-30-10
OPEN MIC AT THE POETRY SLAM
07-29-10
BLOW
07-28-10
Edge of Summer
07-27-10
autumn wind
07-19-10
mittens
07-18-10
we, the undersigned
07-13-10
entertaining myself
07-12-10
Remembering
07-11-10
By my last breath
07-08-10
Relief
07-07-10
autopsy room
07-07-10
Fairness
07-02-10
ballad of the piggies
06-30-10
Thirst for applause
06-30-10
From: Martha
06-30-10
the ocean never loved me
06-29-10
too old
06-29-10
Illinois
06-28-10
Inside of my heart
06-28-10
Pity
06-27-10
ants
06-26-10
900 lbs of words
06-23-10
If you ever
06-22-10
Scanning the night
06-22-10
The Servant
06-20-10
Contemplation of Loss
06-19-10
red
06-17-10
Forgiveness
06-17-10
my destiny
06-16-10
Betrayal
06-13-10
It’s gone! It’s gone!
06-13-10
5:53 p.m. Sunday.
06-12-10
my incentive
06-11-10
Therefore
06-08-10
bobber
06-06-10
Typical
06-02-10
DO NOT DISTURB.
05-31-10
an alright affair
05-30-10
entrance to distance
05-29-10
advice for the saboteur
05-27-10
Sunday mornings
05-24-10
Uncertainty
05-18-10
futile
05-17-10
pardon
05-16-10
Glimmer
05-14-10
Toothpicks (signing the bill and readying to leave)
05-13-10
the poet who wished to be a painter
05-11-10
ONE MAN SHOW
05-10-10
Poems I wrote this morning which I didn’t want to burn in a plane crash with me.
04-30-10
lost potential
04-28-10
pomegranate
04-23-10
Table Display (after Yoona’s sketch)
04-18-10
My Famous Ring
04-17-10
sparrow in no direction
04-17-10
Blonde Beast
04-16-10
Lost to the memory
04-15-10
headache no more
04-14-10
Bones – the kind you find buried on a beach
04-06-10
balloon
04-05-10
escape me
04-04-10
Easter
04-02-10
Night Chills
03-31-10
My Visitor
03-29-10
Jealousy
03-27-10
The Vanishing
03-26-10
Ten Lessons.
03-22-10
in passing
03-20-10
Tooth Extraction
03-18-10
Centerpiece
03-16-10
Bike
03-14-10
as a friend
03-10-10
Buttered Rigatoni
03-09-10
wife
03-08-10
An open letter to my post mortem editor
03-07-10
Moth
03-06-10
Canadian side of Niagara Falls
03-04-10
Heroes and Monsters (An Open Letter from the Virtuous Man to his Noble Woman)
02-27-10
Neon Glow
02-25-10
Blame it
02-22-10
Public Lewdness
02-21-10
Follow Me.
02-14-10
this years valentine
02-10-10
Rain and Smoke
02-08-10
contours on counters
02-04-10
My daughter’s pond
01-29-10
this book is yours
01-23-10
Ice
01-19-10
George
01-11-10
Aurora
01-08-10
Chicago
01-03-10
Have and Have-nots (for my epitaph)
01-01-10
New Years Day
12-31-09
The annual hangover
12-30-09
the night before new years eve
12-29-09
the devil who loves you
12-28-09
Oh woes me.
12-26-09
Cast me away.
12-25-09
Scalpel
12-23-09
the night before christmas eve
12-22-09
the engagement
12-21-09
Uniformed Fools
12-20-09
Burning haystack
12-19-09
peeling skin
12-18-09
The Pursuit
12-14-09
daughter
12-12-09
The Photographer
12-11-09
Push pin
12-10-09
Death of a ladies’ man
12-09-09
my suburban wife
12-08-09
January
12-07-09
Better Man
12-04-09
Soldier Doll
12-03-09
Limby
11-30-09
Yard with a Fence
11-29-09
Itsy Bitsy Spider
11-27-09
Writer’s Block
11-24-09
Unopened
11-23-09
Dancer
11-21-09
Winter
11-20-09
Own
11-16-09
Wood Blocks
11-14-09
Three words
11-12-09
The Future (Letting Go)
11-08-09
Default Lover
11-05-09
She
11-02-09
the poet and the Woman
10-24-09
Fish Bowl
10-21-09
Destructo
10-19-09
She Who Waits
10-18-09
Blah blah blah
10-13-09
Hit & Run
10-07-09
Contract
10-05-09
Rejection
09-29-09
11:56
09-28-09
To Autumn
09-26-09
The Source
09-23-09
Cyst
09-21-09
Or Three
09-18-09
Bed
09-16-09
Season End
09-15-09
Room Service
09-14-09
Dreamers
09-13-09
Dedication
09-06-09
closet
08-03-09
last letter
07-03-09
DREAMERS
06-29-09
BITTER LOSS
06-20-09
FRAILTY
06-19-09
i love you- though i speak it to another
06-09-09
TALL LEGS
06-04-09
SAN SERIF
05-31-09
licking my wounds
05-18-09
DRILLING
04-24-09
Memories
02-14-09
History can feel you
01-21-09
SHELTER
11-12-03
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