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- May 2008
“they run
down
the platform with
their odd gaits…”
- April 2008
“when i
look
down in the
morning i can see…”
- January 2008
“coincidence of
music
like the
fabled
monkeys
…”
- October 2007
“i come
to
contemplate
the detrious surrounding…”
- August 2007
“broken
segues
timing my tan
closeups of the…”
- July 2007
the Dead in
‘73
“subliminal
beneath the…”
- June 2007
“TWO REUNION
POEMS
one with quotations and one without
Callas
is…”
- March 2007
“the jaw
conspires with the
day’s routine
the unmedicated night gives
way…”
- December
2006
“i watch and wonder in the
morning
light
[the
fog lifting…”
- July 2006
“Two Back Window
Poems
the ducks
plow…”
- June 2006
“wrong window
seat
no moving gazes to contain
my thoughts…”
- May 2006
“acid yellow
forsythia spiking
in the sun i
fly by on the highway…”
- March 2006
“a
winter
haiku in the window track
repeating…”
- December
2005
“GLIMPSES
(by which poetry is defined as)
two
Decembers…”
- July
2005
“connections
cold
the winter…”
- June 2005
“are we
the
only ones
looking
at the
shapes…”
- May 2005
“there are the
people that you recognize but do not know
you see them every day
on the
train, on the street, shaking their cup, hawking their paper…”
- April 2005
“there's
no
difference playing
kick the stone…”
- May 2004
“listening
to
the furnace late
at night…”
- April 2004
“April
Fragments
rapid conversation
pains…”
- July 2003
“THE GOLDEN
SIDEWALK - PART 2
watching it fade…”
- May 2003
“every
now
[every now]
and then…”
- June 2002
“perugia and the
morning of remembered dreams
lead pencil
dead weight
the…”
- May 2002
“sea birds
bill
boards the
girders of a…”
- April 2002
“like the
woman
wearing black gloves
typing in the…”
- October 2001
“ short poem
and two fragments, one of which needs no explanation
the brain
pan
full of crackling…”
- August 2001
“transfixed
by
the morning sky
he turns away…”
- July 2001
“A POEM IN TWO
PARTS
“the locomotive
line on track…”
- June 2001
“at some
point
you realize
the next year has…”
- May 2001
“The Tate
Modern
“the suspended piano
by turbine hall…”
- April 2001
“Leaving
Florida
3/6/01
thank you for observing rule
90…”
- March 2001
“he wakes in a
fever
half a poem in his
mind…”
- December
2000
“November Observations
“the keyed monte
carlo
the skeleton of giotto…”
- May 2000
“riding on the
Haight Street bus
with Trevor…”
- March 2000
“a poem in
several parts
“ some days i think
'this is
madness'…”
- December
1999
two poems about autumn
1.
“leaf piles rotting
in…"
- November 1999
"past
days
now
in the future…"
- October 1999
"no pot
memories
of
seventies…"
- September 1999
" two poems on the
John Singer Sargent exhibition
1. whining and whimpering
the sunday crowd
finds…"
- August 1999
" TWO TRAVELING
POEMS
1. smiling at moments that
never happened he…"
- June-July 1999
" planning
not
to be in a hurry
he forgets…"
- May 1999
" ah poetry
the
ides of April pass
without a…"
- April 1999
" the tunnel
jackers
freeze the ground
before them…"
- March 1999
" i read to pass
the
time
my vitality…"
- February 1999
" pen
poised
motionless
for no man…"
- January 1999
"the clock
will
last ten
thousand years…"
- December
1998
"at the wedding
two women
in suits one brown…"
- November 1998
"the
pollock
between
ellsworth…"
- October 1998
"short February
no
Snow moon to
call its own…"
- September 1998
"'lonely
and
companionless' grey
pebbles dot…"
- August 1998
"parked on
the
Williamsburg
bridge the subway…"
- July 1998
"thunder
out of
nowhere
silence…"
- June 1998
"at 5 thirty on a
spring
morning the buses
leapfrog down the…"
- May 1998
"Prelude
so we
take the measure
and the universe may split in revulsion…"
- April 1998
"however wishful,
the
brown melt runs past
new concrete, the sawdust…"
- March 1998
"greeted by
an
ancient acquaintance
warmed by friends…"
- February 1998
"the grey man
on
stage
tuning the steel guitar…"
- January 1998
Two Travelling
Poems
and a Landing Poem…
- December
1997
"cold fingers
fighting
shallow breaths…"
- November 1997
"small
poetic
moments
watching…"
- October 1997
THE DUMP'S ON
FIRE
"the muffled sound
of batteries…"
- September 1997
the year of dead
beatniks
"bill and al
len caught up
to jack…"
- August 1997
'frame of
reference'
"he gazes on the waters
that move at a pace…"
- July 1997
QUIET &
SURPRISE
"i had a poem
in the shower…"
- June 1997
" the jets echoing off
the
low spread of clouds…"
- May 1997
" that was Alan
Ginsberg
he's dying…"
- April 1997
" he talks
i
write
we listen…"
- March 1997
" i've always
wondered
about women who
line their lips…"
- February 1997
" deliberate
chocolate
elaborate
symphony…"
- January 1997
" the iron
crystal
at the heart of it
all…"
- December 1996
" the woman in
black now
blonde her…"
- November 1996
" life is
menu
planning what
to eat when…"
- October 1996
" no time
to
write the subjects
are unpleasant…"
- September 1996
" most
meat
still
sweet…"
- August Extra 1996
" The computer
simulates
death quite
nicely the hidden…"
- August 1996
"there was extra
time
last
night.
I
woke at…"
- July 1996
" the pain
replaced
by a
filled-in hollow…"
- June 1996
" i'm cooking my
breakfast
listening to the radio
[watching the yard through…"
- May 1996
"what's the
right
scale
cosmic…"
- April 1996
"the
microwave
makes
this busy white noise…"
- March 1996
Two Visions of a
November Dream
"i had a dream
back at Amherst…"
- February 1996
POETRY ON THE
WEB
"it's like radio
late night…"
- January 1996
"like my
father
like the yellow
man…"
- December 1995
"another fifty passes
and dorothy wonders at me
about the
silences…"
- November 1995
"sitting
screened in
the street passing…"
- October 1995
"trapped in
time
swimming against the current…"
- September 1995
"writing
dreams
about having poetry…"
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