Poetry

These works include free verse, haiku, rhyming patterns, and experimental formats in language and style. I try to express abstract concepts in the simplest words, or, as I like to think of it, children's poetry for adults.

 

Ephemera and Etcetera

• And Now, the Response by the Honorable Haiku from New York
• . . . at Café Elite
• Edward Gorey’s Cats
• Forced Rhyme
• Haikuomatopoeia
• My First Poem: Winter 1978
• NADSAT Natterings
• New York Traveler
• Rhizome Poem Moan
• The Ballad of Angus McKay
• The Metro Diner
• Three Kings

 

Existential Meditations

• A Wanting Earth
• A Letter to the Oppressive Minions of Orthodoxy After My Death
• Amsterdam, circa 1990
• Bohemian Rhapsody
• Crux Crucis
• Could I Not Move Like a Clock?
• Dead Big Epiphany
• Deep Field Observations
• Interstate-87
• I See . . . Dinosaurs
• I Wanna Be Steve McQueen
• Medieval Death Poem
• Observations for Eight Minutes in the University Cafeteria
• Ode to a Serving Tray with a Poster by Toulouse-Lautrec
• Old Country Prison Work Death Song (aka The Existential Hoedown)
• Perspective
• Suerat's Circus
• The Grey Man
• The Grey Man: The Lanthorn, Fall 1987
• The Prayers of Shiva
• The Work of Seurat
• Tripping
• Whom Gods Destroy
• Wide Montana Skies Over the Little Big Horn
• Wolf 359

 

Loss

• 451 ̊: The Lanthorn, Fall 1986
• A Study in Blue
• Candle Opera
• Departure Time
• Dissipation
• Maudlin
• Relative Position
• Somnus . . . Somnium
• Torch Song

 

Nature Cycle

• Autumn Equinox
• Dead Bug Epiphany
• Eulogy for a Spider
• Snowfall
• Summer Dawn Haiku
• Summer Siren
• Summer Solstice
• Summer Twilight Haiku
• Sun Burnt
• The Storm
• Winter Dawn Haiku
• Winter Solstice, Far North 

Social Conscious

• Ode to an Inmate
• The Facts are Plain
• Turning Towards Mecca at the County Jail
• We Shoot Them
• With Apologies to Pastor Martin Niemöller

●             ●             ●