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Lost at Sea

Of When

Gemini Lady

The Girl She Used To Be

Spring Summer 17

Carve Me Out

Childhood Patterns

Spectrum

A Peel of You

The Woman with the Mirror Cheek

Syria as pictured

Beneath the ornaments

Learning to live again

The Interview

Loop hole hearted

Iron

solitario de amor no more

it is now or never

Lines

A One-Horse Race

Myopic Vision

Feel You

Decisions

Blue Eyes

Bad Date

The Color of Transcendence

Leaving

Absurdité

soaked almonds

HOLY ESCAPE

Impossible space (for Zaha Hadid)

TV times

Swatch

Girl within a girl

Fallout from the War on Women

THE GIRL

Dirty filthy garments and open, gaping wounds

STILL

Mind’s Eye

Becoming

DOOR TO THE PAST

THE PARK GIRL

Losing Her for Her

NESTED

Hunger

Tearing a Hole

Trapped

Ripped from the Headlines

Kaleid

woman within

And Then At Times

Inner voice

Imitation

SLUMPED

Compassion

Girl In Waiting

At Peace

Inside Out

Anamnesis

The Black and White of Me

Egret

He Sings About Hawks

Inside/outside

Dualistic Dance/Trance Migration

The Girl Living Inside My Head Is Japanese I Think

A Dusty Something

Potentate.

Something Strange

Disrupter

women in portrait

Configured

There We Were

Posterity’s Price

A Safe Grooming

Natureville

Wondering of how watching ignites

What They See

Unspoken

Like a glass too full

LOOKING IN, or LOOKING OUT

Charade Of Protest

The Page

Forbidden Fruit

Picture of Two Veiled Women

Lamentation

Different

Pud

White Trash

Not distant, small

The Woman in the Hat

Sanctuary

Warning

Give Me What I Want Though I Don’t Know What It Is

Partially Poetic Peaceful Dream Sequence

Monochrome

Boxes

AUDACIOUS “SHE!”

For Jean Cooke

Considering Myself

Personal Progress Journal, Day 11

Artless

Still Shot

The Surface

Love in Five Volumes

Picture This

Smile

And a river went out of Eden

Return

Whispering Parasites

Then We Were Four

Permission to Speak Goes Unheard

Salvage

Charlotte

Split Personality

FLOWER GIRL

Without a stain

ABOUT THIS ISSUE

Angel or Demon

Fruitless

Forgetting

1968 Do Over

True Colours

My Mother lives in a Polaroid

Hello, Goodbye

Paper Dolls

Me without you

Gap

Anosmia

Postscript

Soft

Untitled

The Autumn of Our Spring

Giving up the gaze

Kissing her Fingers

inside Her

Evening Walk.

The Voice Inside His Head

Being A girl

I WAS YOU

A Villanelle on Identity

Someone else

Carapace

Reel Ink

Underwater

What would Charlotte do?

Friction

A NATURAL TENDENCY

Seasoned Lovers

The Fallen Embrace

Origami (The Balancing Act)

Keep Up With You

Melancholy

Glass slipper

Laugh It Out

Romanticism

FAÇADE

Rip Open The Window

Self Reflection

Don’t I Know You?

They say time heals.

TORN

(where

Hole In The Head

A Change Of View

the last day of love

Sunday Picnic

Unveiled

Sister of Secrets (SOS)

Life, Still

Capture

Skin

About-Face

Confounded Selves

Morgan

BUMP

Vacuous

She

But once I could

River of the Dead and the Alive

The Traveller

Who She Was

Memoirs of a Whore

WHEN THE ROCK MOVED

We Are Folds and Reveals

Green

Tear me a face

everything scares, everything smarts

I am a sage by profession!

Yoko

The Migraineur’s Witch

Lady paints jazz

A torn face

Peas in a Pod

Lock and Key

Tragic Sonnet for Shakespeare Day

The Tear

Five-Fold Symmetries

I will pronounce your name, Eternal truths

Poignant pondering

a haiku for a smile

The Area Between Two Places

The Gathering

Sister Veronica’s Habit

Esoteria

TAPESTRY

Silence

What is left of me?

Leaves

The path of the Mice and nice.

Love Upholds

American Gothic

She

Veiled

The Encounter

We receive new names

This Land

I can hear the grass grow

One-Sided Conversation

The Dog Knows

Milk

DINNER WITH THE ROYALS

The Unseen Heart

Some Kind of Tiger

Domestication

Seduction

Elmo’s Eyes

Felinity

Chops

Softness

Thank Goodness

Feline Apathy

Not the Eyes

Flea in your ear

You are not the only dog here

of tendencies: the anatomy of an unruly emotion

Philautia

Vacuous – The Oval

Olfactory

P

The Smell of Sweet Caramel

Give Me God, But Not Too Much

Dermis

Hot Ember

SOMETHING GNAWING AWAY

Animalia

Fate Decreed

Pet Me

Maw

Kafka to Canine

Camera

Smell perfect and wild

The Raja’s Daughter

Monographic

What Evolution Has Left Us

A Certain Chord

Implement

Meeting Point

Still Laying

Fear

Muzzle

Serengeti

Apes—different

Pick A Scent

Furball

Kindred Spirits

and the animal is smiling

Unexpected Turn of Events

Rotsecna

Tuesday

COPY ARTISTRY

Growing Trees

Familiar

Gothic Telltale

Conciliazione

Facets

Watermelons

Stuffed Animal

Archaic Emoting

Imagine This

Satellite

Come Fire

Pretzl

Torn from the same page

Grrr

Prongs of Three

Journey to Nod

“unchain my heart”

Neurosity LXXXV: meditations on triangles in the early morning rain

Whoa man. Woe man. Woman. Omen.

A HAND OF MAGIC

The Road to Aleppo

Conjure philosophy

That’s Right, Ain’t It?

Well, Fine

Memory

Two Figures in a Landscape

The man who had no neighbours

Mudcat

MyFeline

Yokeland’s Best

A Perspective of Memories.

Monsanto Ted Talk Plan

The Dead Man’s Whiskers

Undead, unliving

Land-bound Poseidon

Catch of the Day

Cameo

to this

Pitchfork Justice.

Presence

History of art

Dream Guzzler

Aging in Place

Cheeted

Zone

Stuffed

This is this and not that

In The Absence Of Eyes

Notes from field expedition #1

Dog

From One Man to Another

Paradise Rejected

Hello Tiger

Scrub

For R

On the Outskirts

Stay Steady

A Woman Passing

For Syria

“Beautiful Day, Sheriff!”

The women smile

In the world | In my mind

Cats in Computers

My Name is Dominika

You and I

American Gothic

What’s it like for you?

Wherever The Winds May Blow

The Upstair Neighbors

Socially Awkward Symptoms

A Garden of Beauty

Praise Him

Fair Trade

Waiting for a paternoster

A Modern Interview

Snickers

Toy Mouse

Jungle Alarm Clock

Sash

Architecture

Three pinhead priests, two in flight, one walking on water, enforce the ritual of land-bound remembrance on a boy child found watching birds at swim

Reflections on a past life as a Western God

Bird Boy

Coma Response

Blinded by Vision

The Guardians

Between sunset and night

Nagging Suspicion

From the Tome’s Pages

The Dot on the Horizon Isn’t the Sun

After Robert Frost

When Bobby Fischer Goes Swimming

I HAVE THE ABILITY TO PULL THE TIDES

My Private Life

Trinity

In The Day Of The Old Money

Fuck, the cat

Safe Journey

The Ecstasy

A sea, between you and me

Ownership

Haul

From Scratch

oh, alice

A cat called Nettie

A Found Poem from a Nut-Hugging Bear Cookies Recipe

Purple People

COMPANIONS OF THE HOST

Coasting

Striped

American Gothic

scent predicts

Daylight’s End

The infinite monkey theorem

Playing Games

March

Blind Folds

Atlantis Burning

Four months, four women

O Master, you shall pay!

Playthings Of The Gods

ORACLE CHRONICLES

The Lullaby of the Water

Chalked

The New Gothic: Marriage

Be My Guest

guardians

We Picked a Bad Time

I wished I could wake up

Blue

Haiku

“You Looking At Me?”

Sweet Home Chicago

Glossary for Aulis

CATTUS

Trapped

Dinnertime Routine

The Cats Want to Know

Arches of symmetrical penetration

The Couch at 3 AM

Bear

The journey north

Farmers Almanac

Hide and Seek

NOT SO SWEET

The elements

On the Psychology of Quantum Mechanics

Trapped and Blinded

Cavity

Dive In!

AFTERIMAGE

American Gothic

Afraid of the Dark

Red Pill Retribution

Folktale

Bloody Where the War Is Waged

Recollections of Water

Cornucopia

Abe the Storyteller

I cannot commit

Refused portrait sitting

Her

Our Home

Who is She?

Anamosa, IA

Tigris

Rumplestiltskin

Face Recognition

Her Comic Valentine

Cumin of Agen

Hunt

The Numb Keeper.

Teddy

Double Rainbow (a haibun)

breakfast tea

Jump

For my son

A DARKER WOOD

Mothær

They are gone far

New-Found Shore

Mourning Ms Pyrex

Circle and Spread

Simple is Not Enough

The Edge

Gothic Guignol

Felinus

Dead Brother’s Note to Our Dad

Nobody’s Dream

Domestication

Taking the Plunge

We won’t sell

Howl

Impressions

Fold

The Lick of Salt on Your Skin

What will the neighbours say?

Cat Communication

#youstink (tetrhaiku)

Philosopher

Nosey

Leash

GRANITE

Close-Up

post-what?

Dreamsong

Forks

Cameo

Harvest

FREEDOM

American Gothic

My wife is Althaea

Acts of Silence

Burn

Common Sense

Every great adventure

The Only Lizard on Mars

Space Roe

I’ve been working hard on my defeatism lately, and I think it’s really starting to show

An Emotional Affair

The last fork

Point and shoot

Re-imagining a piece of property

At The End

SEKHMET

I’s tell a story of failed tongues

Limitless boundaries

Slideshow

Sunset

You Can’t Go Home Again

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