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  • (Form: Poetic Closure) My Very Own Ghost Cat
    130 4 1

    Dedicated to Bogart Alexander, my newly acquired Ghost Cat.

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  • Laughing Waters
    282 4 1

    Very early draft... edit, comment, suggest, please. Emotional piece for me dealing with my cousin's sudden diagnosis. Thinking of our laughter together all of our lives, and how I need it to continue. Free verse---no set form....on purpose.

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  • Nocturnal Ruminations, Or: Lessons Taught, Lessons Learned
    110 2 1

    Author's Note: Summer 1997. To celebrate the release of Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, the KGB Bar in downtown Manhattan held a Pynchon Sound-a-like Contest. You were encouraged to write like our favorite reclusive author and enter your work. All participants had to read their work aloud. The winner got free drinks t...

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  • The Good Ship Wounded Clam
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  • Envelopes of Leaves
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    This is a prose poem so be prepared for that type of expression. The idea is to condense as much as possible into a small space, but in a style similar to prose yet poetic in word choice. Note word sounds. They are intentional. I want you to hear what I heard in those moments. This is a true series of interconnecte...

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  • *Caged*
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    First draft of a free verse styled poem echoing the staccato style of seizures I endure too often. I have another draft that I like much better, and is finer crafted through more revisions but since it was submitted for possible publishing in an anthology I will not print it here. I'll let you know if the revised v...

  • Work (Or don't, whichever)
    57 1 1

    Working hard, chasing girls, trying to get out of work.