Poetry
A selection of published poems, arranged alphabetically:
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After Hours
Aletheia
Alice Speaks runner-up for the 2003 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize)
All Is Forgiven
All She Needs
Ambient Light
Ancient Knowledge
Angels Move into the House Next Door
Antimatter
An Apology finalist for the 2003 James Hearst Poetry Prize; selected by Billy Collins for the anthology 180 More (Random House 2005)
Ars Poetica
Arse Poetica
As Above, So Below
Astroculture
Atonal Bisque
Autumn
brain composition
Bronze Age
Bullfight with Hemingway
Captivity
winner of Tattoo Highway #15 "Picture Worth 500 Words" Poetry Contest
Cento Canto
Change of Life
Cheap at Any Price
Cocoa Butter
Companion to the Guide to the Norton Reader
Corporate Art Collection
Creed
The Culture of the Impractical
Cymbal Eyes
Dark Empathy
Dead of Summer
Dead Pheasant
Death and the Maiden
Death Wish
Dissolution 3rd place in The Writer 2005 New Discovery contest
Dominion
Doomgobble
Duet for One Voice
Earth Cinquain
Earthly Delights
Eating Light winner of the 2008 SFPA Rhysling Award for the Short Poem
End-of-the-World Grill
Extinction
Falling Barometer
First Contact
First Day of Autumn
For Your Convenience
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Gender Characteristics
Ghosts
Grand Tour winner of the 2003 Mary Roberts Rinehart National Poetry Award
Great Horned runner-up in the 2006 Hotel Amerika poetry contest
Greedy Postal Worker
The Green Sun Is Not a Sun
Guns, Butter honorable mention in the 2005 Mississippi Review poetry contest
Haiku for the White House
Hate Crimes
The Haunted Parka
Hibernation
High Road
Homesickness
Hors Concours
Household Gods
How to Write Poems #49
How to Write Poems #86
How to Write Poems #510
i Is for Imaginary
If I Were a Truck
Imaging Dept.
Imperceptible Changes
In the Final Analysis
Instead
Isthmus in November
(it's perfect, actually) 2nd place in Asinine Poetry's 2006 Haiku contest
Lamia Rosary
Language Barrier
Late Snow
Libation
Lifestyles of the Dead
Liquid
Look Ma No Hands
Looking Backward
winner of Tattoo Highway #8 “Picture Worth 500 Words” Poetry Contest
Lost in Translation
Madeline 648-7251
Marshmallows
Melt Completely
Mememto Mori
Mixed Media Abstract
The More Things
Mother's Day
New Physics
Night Out
Nightfall
Nine Dreams
No 'Gator Love
Oh My Mi_ winner of the Poetz.com mic-vs.-mike competition
Old Family Eggnog Recipe
Or Perish
Outer Planet
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Pantoumine
Perfection
Persian Garden
Photomancy
Pictosyllabic Haiku
Pilgrimage
Pippa Passes Gas
Planet Parenthood
Poetry Tasting
nominated for 2007 Best of the Web
Prairie Queen
Red Dot
Replication
Revelation
Rules For Life
Ruling Class
Salutary
Senses
Sequitur
Shopping List
Signs of Fever
Sky Blue
Smoking Mirror
Solitude
Space Factory
Spell
Spring Cleaning
the surrealists' party
Suspended Animation winner of the 2002 Balticon science fiction poetry competition
System Error
Tail
Taking in Each Other's Washing
Tea Ceremony
To my daughter on the other side of the world
To the Victims of Opression and Terrorism
Toilette for a Suicide
Travelogue
Twinkle
Unified Field
Uses of Metaphor
Valentine From the Cat
Vessel
Villanelle for Villains
Vocabulary Exercise
Volition
Wall winner of the 2004 Pauline Ellis Prose Poetry Prize
Waterfall
The Way Home
What Matters
runner-up for the 2004 Stephen Dunn Award
Winter Solstice
Wish List
The Woods
3rd place in the 2005 Lumina Ultra-Short Competition
Worlds that Orbit Stars Other Than Our Own
Years Later