Poems
Poems seem to be the most popular items from my collection of writings. I suspect that this is because they are short. It is generally the most polite thing to enter into a short text, for most people, in case the act of reading, or the text itself, should prove intolerable. With less cynical modesty, I might also note that my poems enjoy a considerable frequency of publication and are often well received in performance.
- This Poem Isn’t About Wine
- An Old Man Recalls Wartime
- Objectives
- A Game of Musical Chairs
- A Place with a Creek
- The Gold Teeth of Death
- Gun
- Tangled Strings
- They Don’t Write Odes
- Accepted: Eviction
- Cut-up Poem #3
- Cut-up Poem #2
- Cut-up Poem #1
- An Orphaned Couplet
- Raining in Mecklenburg
- Water
- Dream
- redundant redundant
- On Not Going Home
- Reflection
- Often and Only
- Unwanted Lullaby
- Morning and Night
- Exhaustion
- Statuary
- Sound
- Texture
- Taste
- Sight
- Thought
- Feeling
- The Richest Literary Journal in History
- Clouds
- Hallelujah
- The Imperial Red Yo-Yo
- Scrawl
- Patterns of Action
- The Performance Bug
- No One There is You
- Travel
- Bum
- Toys
- Journalism
- So Fast, So Fast
- Highways out of the Darkness
- Live Without Eyes
- Whole Language
- The Vertigo Contraption
- Platitudes
- Steel Structures
- Ask Them This
- Sunset Streets
- Metropolis
- Interstate
- The Breaths Between Us
- Nothing comes of the stone candle
- Heated Dreams
- Swelling the World Around You
- Waiting for Silence to Die
- Doubt
- a poem in progress
- Time to Go
- Drowned in the loud
- Waiting for the Song Worth Dancing
- Let There Be One
- An Acquired Taste
- Under The Tree
- Two Types
- Midnight Train
- Thoughts on a Suitcase
- Spider Time
- Sing for Song
- Self-Mutilation
- About a Photograph
- Pedestrian
- Lost Nation
- Let Up
- “Don’t Turn Your Back on Me”
- I Came to Get
- Housekeeping!
- History
- Old Flame
- The Poem I’m Expected to Write
- Excuses Not to Speak
- Eviction
- A Sonnet
- Erosion
- Dumb Love Poem
- Dream of Seas
- Delerium Fade to Grey
- Dance Some
- Aftermath
- Children Can Remember
- Chaos of the Day
- Break
- UnAmerican National Anthem
- Genesis
- Only Bodies Can Say
- I Saw Jesus
- 2 Function Form
- Thomas Raine Crowe
- Hey Baby, Sleep
- Moonlight
- So You Say
- Blue
- Stream of Consciousness Poem
- Blue Thing
- Baby Mountains
- Too many Christs on Too Many Crosses
- Razor Boy
- Deciduous People
- Regret
- Full-Moon-Light Snowfall
Many of these poems are nearly a decade old now, and editing them together has been a curious task. The task is an ongoing one. The reader may notice that i have begun to prefer a more sentence-like style for my poetry, where the line is capitalized that begins the complete thought, and I have begun to punctuate more than I did.