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April 11, 2017 Where the sky meets the sea. Memory and dream commingle where the ocean meets the sky. The flux between extant and extinct builds the tides. We were there, once, back before we December 15, 2015 Godzilla vs. Giant Eagle Godzilla vs Giant Eagle (With apologies to Godzilla who is less destructive) The radicalized bird Hit me first, hit us. I hit back and maybe harder December 15, 2015 Godzilla vs. Giant Eagle Godzilla vs Giant Eagle (With apologies to Godzilla who is less destructive) The radicalized bird Hit me first, hit us. I hit back and maybe harder December 13, 2015 Tier 1 Graphic Standards: Inappropriate Applications This poem was created by copying lines directly from the VA Tier 1 Graphic Standrds Manual. It’s kind of like blackout poetry in that I deleted December 8, 2015 Big words, small gun Hashtag your #2ndAmendmentJeremiad and let us discuss, between magazines, how ’ merican we are on the internet December 7, 2015 Good People Just Don’t Go Into Politics So I dithered on posting this for fear of offending people, even though I like what I wrote. I’m chosing to post it not that I don’t care but December 6, 2015 Destroy All Monsters The last two mornings, I start by asking myself what is frustrating me. While this seems an endless fontain of creativity, because the world is December 5, 2015 God isn’t fixing this I awoke angry this morning. The news is so sad this last week and the response from anyone that could affect change is, at best, infuriating. The November 26, 2015 Banking by phone. Hello. Thank you for calling Bank of America. We have your money in a box slowly suffocating. Para continuar en español presione 7 October 31, 2015 Truth belied. How sincerely seeking on all hallow’s eve a costume to hide sickly sins we’ve swear’d; We are only wishing for the world to see that all these October 31, 2015 Truth belied. How sincerely seeking on all hallow’s eve a costume to hide sickly sins we’ve swear’d; We are only wishing for the world to see that all these October 25, 2015 An Approaching Lullaby I never rhyme or write in verse and meter. So, here’s all of it all at once to make up for all the years of not writing them but for class. Daylight October 19, 2015 The makeup of reality Of the galaxies above Through all the infinite reaches With stars and constellations Uniting as we do As lovers; We are Both starstuff with Rent due September 13, 2015 Between Versions I thought it would be kind of neat to see how a poem in process can look. Below is a first draft then the current draft of something I’m working on, August 25, 2015 Self-evaluation Brain like a jello salad served front and center at a Midwestern family cookout. Sweet and gelatinous until you inevitably confront the one sour August 23, 2015 so much depends upon So much depends upon a full red pen carving fat away from useful words I used to want poetry to be enormous, euphonic, entities dripping with August 17, 2015 Refresh I am as clever as the literature refresh I throw aside to fix the Facebook screeds in which I dwell. refresh Classic lit ain’t got refresh nothing August 8, 2015 I am Torn I’ve been looking at sending poetry for publication. Like to paper publications, publications that offer money or prizes. A number of the July 29, 2015 Going home to your electric toys. Working for millennia Thinking about When’s it done When’s it done I don’t want it Resisting it I want it That Contact probing hand That Electric July 27, 2015 Arashi in blue. I wrapped this by hand, with sinew thread, taking one long afternoon wrap (and breathe) by (and breathe) wrap (and breathe) July 23, 2015 Endangered species The least you could be is indifferent to my gnashing, angry gold teeth and allow me to bite through your yielded flesh like some privileged lowland July 17, 2015 Reviewing old poetry Re-reading my old journals is hard and not in an emotionally difficult way but in a “what the hell was I trying to say” sort of way. So much of it July 12, 2015 Active Ingredients A new but familiar orange bottle. The safety lid to protect children. Little, white pills. Active Ingredients: bupropion hydrochloride, July 7, 2015 Dyson Sphere In the deep hollows of space I can build a sphere around the sun to apportion the radiant energy, joule by joule. It is buffered by cool and October 26, 2014 Sex for Chemists From our shells we reach out. Between us, a dense fog of uncertain Relations. We connect, our hands brushing with electric intent and release light October 25, 2014 External Carotid Artery Hold the carotid. We’re grasping at elation. Tighter. Just tighter October 21, 2014 Lark’s Head Lover’s observance: Slowly pulling at grasses. Hear the singing lark September 27, 2014 Smith Corona [gallery] I had some key sticking issues with a new typewriter acquisition. It was an easy fix and it is working just fine now! It now resides in March 24, 2014 Ode to Tools [gallery] He scrubs the pot once filled to Brimming with the appliance of making. Something crafted line by line From a lab book filled with words January 13, 2014 Unlace my skin. Study the knots of my shame From a lifetime of can not or the deference of should not. Know me not like I know me, Not how I have always known me. October 15, 2010 Cold, Calm and the Quiet originally uploaded by ABMann. When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted To sever the years, Pale