My Poems

All of my hundreds of poems have one thing in common:  They are all intended to be published in a monospace typeface. In all the poetry I’ve written, the typeface I’ve used is 11-point Courier New, for its resemblance to a traditional typewriter font. 

Today, monospaced fonts have fallen out of style, for various legitimate reasons, and are used today primarily for displaying computer code. 

But I still intend to work with Courier New because, for me, the appearance of a poem on the page is an important aspect of its impact and even its meaning.  So, as an artist, I’m stuck with it.  To change the font would change the character of the poem, much as the musical key of a piece, and its rhythm, are what makes each musical passage sound the way its composer intended.

My poems have been published in Adventures in Poetry Magazine, Adventures in Poetry Anthology, Creative Review, Encore, New Earth Review, Speak Out and Writer’s Forum.

Here I name my 400+ poems:

A Bar

A Choice

A Concise Statement of the Theory of Social Work and a Comment

A Dramatic Introduction

A Prayer

Able

Adam and Eve

After Life

Aftermath

Again

Again, Oblivion

Age and Youth

All for All

All in Time

Almost

Alone Once More

Alternative Lifestyle

Am I?

And I Do

Angel

Any Pattern

Ark

Arnold

Art Fern

As a First Step

Aspiration

At Last

At My Doorstep

At Night

at the ample moment of bare creation

At Turning

Auburn

Awful  Wonder

Bay Study

Bedtime

Before Dawn

Below

Bird

Black Daisies and Iron Rum Part One

Black Daisies and Iron Rum Part Two

Black Daisies and Iron Rum Part Three

Black Daisies and Iron Rum Part Four

Blame

Bleak

Books Pour Out

Boredom

Born and Died

Boy Talk

Brothers

But

Butterfly Passion

By reason

Calendar

Canyon

Caught Between

Centurion

Chestnut

Childhood

Children

Chimirri

Chisel Cat

Choice

Christine

Circle

City Limits

Clouds

Cock Crew

Cocoon

Coda

Coffin

Collar

Confusion

Consensus

Construction

Consumer Demand

Contemplation

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Creations

Creed

Crist’s fours

Critic’s Apology

Crucifixion

Cursed by Love

Curtain Call

Cut a Cat

Cyclers

Daisies

Dancer

Day after Christmas

Daytime

Death (at Some Point)

Death (Never Any)

Death Remembered

Decision Tree

Deference

Die Day

Directions

Disconnect

Dish

Distress Signals

Dog Ends

Draft

Dream Markets

Drunk Among Stars

Dumb Last Words

Early Departure

Earth Wall

Easter Psychosis

Elephant Juice

Elephants Without Bells

Ellipse

End

Energy is Round

Epitaph

Epitaph, Hasty

Eye and Eye

Eyes

Faith

Fantasy

Father O’Hara

Feelings

Finding a Room

Finish This Poem

Fireside

Flowers in Vases

Fluke

Foot Fetish

For Mother

For Permission

For This Reason (Every Season)

For This Reason (With Her)

Forever Young

Formality

Forty Tubes

Foundation

Four Ninety-Four

Fragmented

Fury

Futility

Gas

Girls and Boys

Girls in Crestwood

Glory Bees

Godforsaken

Goodbye Seasonal Change

Graduation Day

Gray My Eyes

Grudge

Happiness

He Shoots

Heart

Here

Hey, Look

His Sudden Death

History March

Home Terminal

Honesty

Hymn for Despised Goats

Hymn to the Goddess

I am the Land

I Can See

I Don’t Remark

I Don’t Believe in God

I Guess Every Day

I Have to Write Out

I Imagine

i like to look at my friend

I Remembered a Song

I Think of You

I Want to Write a Poem

I Was

I Write Poems

Impermanence

in both world charm are our home

In Fidelity to Imperious Lovers

In Partial Fulfillment

In the Woods

Inadequate Personality

Independence Day

Inevitability

Information Center

Interlude

Into

Intrinsic Philosophy

Intro, Non-Spec

Introvert

It’s Over

Item Number One

Jan

Janet

Jot

King James Version

King Kong

Lady

Lamp Virgin

Last Man

Leaving the Mountain

Letters

Life is Almost Over

Life is Like Waiting

Life Time

Life Without Sun

Lines Written in Bitterness

Lonely

Look for Me

Love For Example

Love These Lines

Marvel

Mask

Matinee

Matters

Meal Measures

Means

Meeting

Memories are Few

Merry Ellen

Method

Mine for the Asking

Miss America

Missing Tanya

Moderns

Monologue

Motorbike Morning

Mountains

Moving to the Future

Mud Tide

Mud Waters

My Apologies

My Last Line

My Lost Friend

My Problem

My Self and I

Mystery

Nabisco

Nation Body

Needing Much

Never Easy

News

Night

Night Door

No Problem

Not Me

Not Much More

Not My Problem

Not Quite

nothing i do is helping

Nowhere I know

O Night

Ode to the Trees

On and On

One Critic’s Apology

One Disparity

One Lover’s Preoccupation

One Moment’s Eternity

One Rich Cup

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Orchard Sleep

Other Horses

Other People

Overland

Owed to the Limerick

Own Me

Pacing

Paranoia

Pattern

Pea Night

Peace

Peace of Mind

Peaceful Valley

Peanut Butter

Peanuts

People Running

Peter Pumpkin Eater

Philip in Chains

Picture of Health

Pieces

Pit Nap

Places I’ve Been

Planter

Play

Poem

Poetry’s Perhaps the Hardest

Point of Order

Pointless

Portrait of Power

Practice

Prayer During a Storm

Preoccupations

Presidio Park

Pride

Progress

Proportions

Pullman Coach – Creation

Quickie

Rain Running

Rapture

Ready

Red Daisies

Redouble

Remains

Remember

Remembered Passion

Repeat

Revolutions of Eggs

Riddle

Riverboat

Road Rally

Robotic Connections

Rose of Sharon

Runaway

Sadness

Salvation

San Diego

Sand Dunes

Scientific Method

Searching

Seascape

Seeing and Not Seeing

Service

Sex and Marriage

She Who Never Was

Shipboard

Shot

Signpost

Silent Movie

Simpleton

Sisters

Sleep

Smoke

Social Science

Soft

Some Kind of Sin

Somehow

Something Worth Living

Sometime

Sonya

Sound Pattern

Spirit

Starlight

strings and strings

Suddenly Over Time

Suitcase

Sun Day

Sunfish Creek

Swan Lake

Sympathy

Symphony of Pine

T. D. Complex

Table Scraps

Teacher

Telephone

The Arc of Triumph

The Black Rosary

The Blessing of God and the Passion of Man

The Condensed Works of

The Dog and the Master

The Drifting Fisherman

The Enemy

The Fifth and Final Part – Black Daisies and Iron Rum

The Gift

The Hundicant

The Idea of Poems

The Languishing Lover

The Letter

The Lord’s Prayer

The Message in the Bottle

The Meta of Self

The Mud-Slinging Contest

The Musician

The Nativity

The Nut

The Ovens

The Prisoner

The Psalm of the Devout Penitent

The Real

The Rules of Order

The Sea

The Stance

The Unpossessed

The Wizards

There Is Only One God

There Was a Man

Think of the Times

Thinking

Those Who Go

Three Brown Notes

Tides

Time

Time Without You

Tired of Feeling

Title Unknown At This Juncture

To a Farther Room

To Live

Together

Tomorrow

Tonight

Tonight Is

Trade

Trains and You

Tree Man

Trigger

Trump

Truth and Beauty

Turtles

Two

Underemployed

Unfinished

Unsure

Untitled

Upon My Coming of Age

Varieties of Religious Experience

Variety

Vegas Girl

Victim

Victor

View

Violins

War

War-X

Watching

We Are All Men

Welcome

Welfare

Wet

What I Once

When a Mother Does

When He Speaks

When Nothing Matters

Where Beasts of Prayer Lay Down at Night

Where does the star fall?

Who Can’t Be Helped

Whose Business Is It?

Wine Song

Winter in Babylon

With a Certain Regularity

Without You

Wizard of Oz

Words

Worn Record

Wrong

You Were Just Here

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