INDEX OF POEMS PART THREE

(Poems dating from May 2021 onwards...)

FEBRUARY 2022

Is That Your Real Name

Advice To Be Followed In The Worst Part Of The Fairy Tale Or That Awful Dream About The

Balloon Poppers

Composition

Alice Comiig Up For Air Again, From The Dream State

Ghosts Live The Life Of Riley Said One A Little Wiley

And This Is A True Story

It Won't Make A Difference To The Stars

Yellow Diamonds

The Stage Set Historically Speaking, The Rollercoaster At The Time

JANUARY 2022

Career Day Quandry Subconsciously Streamed

Then We Dreamed Of The Sea, Wounded With Shipwrecks

Poem In Commemoration Of William Butler Yeats Who Died On January 28, 1939

Language Lesson

Big Top

The Hunters

For Emily Dickinson (2)

Basic Dilemmas 101

Snow In Jerusalem

In The End All You Want Is To Go Home

Punctuation Dream Scheme

Bridge Of Air

Bad Advice

Sad Song

I Dreamed Narcissus Looked Into The Sun

What Was Left Out Of The Story

Lemony Lullaby

Green Field

Already The Snow Lights Have Gathered In The Sky

The Poem I Love Chimes Out Of Time

We Walk In Dreams

Follow The Lantern Bearers Out Of The Dark

To The Post Modern Poets That They Turn Again, Back

Riddling Dream

Lost Above Ground I Carried On

Forgive Me Universe And Yellow Brick Road

The Small Make Do

The Gold Among The Ruins

Amesthyst

Palomino Gold

Silverly

The Dear Days Beyond Recall

What To Do

What Dreams In Us

High Above The Dreams Of Men, Softly Now The Snow Sets In

The Lost Language Of Dolls

The Queen's Platinum Pudding Poem

Uh Oh

On The Morning Of The Merlin Winds

With Exorbitant Praise Of The Sentimental, Y'all

Your Typical Metaphysical Nursery Q's And A's

Ranking It

Conversant With Birds

Looking for Beulah Land

Book Exchange

We Lived Behind The Wall In The World

How The Glass Hills Shone

Regarding The F Word And Etc. PLEASE SHUT UP, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING!!

Sometimes In Moments Of Fitful Repose

To Forge A New Solitude

The Angel To Shoshtakovich In A Dream

Always To Think And Never To Feel

Golden Vanilla

Will It Always Be This Way, The Moon Through The Sudden Clouds

Sing The Sixpence Song Without The Pie

Dream Postcard Written In Haste

Mysterious Beams Sited;Origin Untraceable

Lamentation On The Feast Of Epiphany

Leftover Christmas Poem

The Heart That Goes On

Ars Poetica: Firework Show

Here On Earth, We Are Rich From Birth

Who Washed The Dream Sand Out Of Our Eyes

Notes For A Play I Don't Want To Be InThe Small Rubicons

Heaped With Flowers And Hushed In The Urn

That Old Riddle Time

At Recess Near The Shade Trees

Next Time Don't Put The Strawberry Tarts There

Another Pale Lament About The Clouds

First Poem Of The New Year

Spelling The Stone I Awake From Darkness

DECEMBER 2021

Elegy For A Cloud Well Painted

Landscapes In Dreams

Dream Of A Not So Ridiculous Man

I'm Not Going To Do It

Candy Apple Red In The Dead Of Winter

Sparkle

No Matter How Small You Make Him, He Still Made The Stars

Advice In Traffic

You Give Short Shrift To The Swan Decked Page

My Heart Before The Wearied Day

My Words Seek His Benediction

Plea

All Coming True

Potentially Speaking

My Broadway Song For The Hey Kids, Let's Put On A Show Retrospective

/Something Will Shine Sometimes

In Winter

Resolute

As If She Had

Petals

Doll Dress And The Dolls- Approbation

Still There Remains

Monologue On Cezanne

I Do Not Want To Acknowledge

Rosetta Stone

Thoughts On Listening To Beethoven Again

NOVEMBER 2021

The Names Of Things Spelled Into Her Hands

Irrevocably

In The Archives, A Little Past The Stonecutter's Cottage

Restless

Wolfie

Neither Leaf Nor Bloom Have They Left

School Dream Well Into June

Another Variation On The Story

No Fade From Green

Long Live The Emerald City I Said

Rhetorically Speaking Into The Vast Of Dream

A Faint Nostalgia For The Stars Of Eden

Let Now No Reasonable Star

On How A Poem Is Made

Ghosts On The Moon

O Give Me The Sun Bright Words

Each One A Galaxy

The Whole World Is Haunted With The Holy Ghost

Dorothy Toward Oz, The House Never Settling

For The Green Words Sung To Only One

Not The Hymn To Technocracy You Perhaps Wanted

The Poem To The Toys Left Behind

The Beautiful Words We Wept Over

The Haunted Histories Considered On Christmas Day

The Lilacs In The Evening Of My Poem

The Poem About Pastels

I'm Not Here To Speak To The Unhappiness Of The Uncrowned

The Poem To Thingamabobs, To Ray Bradbury

OCTOBER 2021

Glaze 

The Busy Soul

The End of Weather As We Knew It

Toward Winter Remembering The Lost Bird Of The Soul

I Heard The Weeping Of  Words

Here We Are Whispers The Soul

In October

To Poetry Eluding All Capture

I Only Hear The Angels Sing

Q.E.D. For The Princess And The Pea Proof

Mid Flood, Praying For The Rainbow Aftermath

Only Draw Light

Deposition From The Princess Marionette

Reposted: For Dylan Thomas In The Dark Blue Dusk, The Gilded Dust Of Words

After Long Deserts Dreamed

I Trace The Fault Lines In The Leaf

One Block From Me The Angels Live

Making The Meeting On Time On How To Not Save The Drowning

In Eden

The Days Right After

Translations

Unless

If Not

Narrow Escape

On The Quite Contrary & Etc.

But Still Gold

Imperishably

I'd Rather Dream It So

Stop For A Moment And Read This Poem

If You Are The Child Who Stands Tiptoe At Midnight

In Mid October

On What To Do When The Second Best Wish Comes True

Lifting The Stone To Throw

It Was What I Dreamed

If I Could Build Inside Myself A House Of Sticks

To God My Father On The Subject Of Poets, Poetic Language

Scenes From A Christmas Dollhouse In The Catalogue

How A Poem Is Made

Tide Charts And Sun Tables

Their Purple They Have Wasted On The Wind

Catalpa Tree In The District

For That Which Is Beautiful The Artists Carried Water

On Reading Again His Verses

To Resemble The Light Of The Star

And Will Not Dream

All The Poems On Earth Can't Tell Me What The Light Said

Caught In The Snow Queen's Bright Exacting Mirrors

Some Poets, You Know

To God My Father In Receding Starlight

The Swan Of Tuonela

Thumbelina Scrawls On A Wall

To The Poem Forever Eluding Detection

Why Don't You (Composition No, 2)

Small Cancion On Disappearing

The Magic Cat of the King

SEPTEMBER 2021

To the Keepers Of The True, The Good And The Beautiful In A Cynical Time

To My Mama

Crimson Angels

Thumbelina's Lament

Retrospective

Poetry, I Won't Complain

Finals

Across The Potomac, Angels Along The Fault Lines

Big Top

Fitting Nowhere i Hang From A Star

Outside The Diamond Wind Cuts Hard

I Have Slipped The Marigold Stitch

It's A Fauve Mauve

Hymn To God My Father On The Subject Of Light

Alice In Chalk Pastels

Cry Into Softly, The Memory Of Snows

Still May The Unearthly Rainbow In The Shell

Dark Cherry Thoughts While Chewing Montmorency Cherries

On Listening To The Album My Attention Span Or Thereabouts

The Princess As I Envisioned Her

Largesse/I Sing In Favor Of The Jam-Packed Poem

Glorious Improviso

Song For The Constantly Berated

AUGUST 2021

My Ladder Leans Against The Skies

Not Poetry Outloud;Something Else Instead

Who Are You Where Have You Been

Rainy Saturday, Consulting The Dictionary Of Prisms

At The Malevich Exhibition For Awhile

When I Am Lost Like The Stray Puzzle Piece From The Box

Reading

When I Am Lost Like The Stray Puzzle Piece From The Box

(first draft?)

My Grandmother's Piano

Godmother

What Can I Do But Praise You Father Of Light

Song For A Radiant Atheist

Round Trip With Emeralds

Landscape With Urban Clouds

In The Fair Kingdms, Fast Asleep

The Fins Flash Silver But Some Flash Gold

Summer Poem In Chlorine Blue

Augury In August

For Amy Lowell, For Her Poem "Opal"

The Next To The Last Page In The Book

To My Sister In The Blue Dusk Of Time

Spirograph

From A Glass Sky

Silver On The Stones

This Lemon Bar Of Sunlight (two versions?)

His Famous Children Laud His More Resounding Fame

To Rainier Maria Rilke Again

Yum

Not In Praise Of Ambiguity

Anthems

A Prophecy Over The Small Child On The Swingset

Reading The Tea Leaves For Injust Justice

With A Single Theme

JULY 2021

Nor Be The Gold Flounder

Beautiful Imagination, I Have Come To Call

We Thought We Ruled The Country Of Clouds

Postscript With Love To My Catholic Schooling

The Toads Depart From The Imaginary Gardens

The Fairy Tale Woods Are Perishing

I Was Thinking I Was Dreaming

All The Light He Sends Us

Alice In The Microcosmos

My Words

Instructive Is The Moon

On Reading Again His Verses

Considering The Lilies

Here Before Us In Your Majesty

in The Intended Country In My Dream

Not Even Light Whom You Loved First

The Only Surviviing Detail From The Dream Wreck

Diving Off From The Dream Wreckage

Alchemy Revisited And The Prisms I Would Weep

The Poet Grieves The Loss Of Logos, The Green And Living Word,

And Is Then Made Glad

You Think You May Have

The Language of Birds

The Sendoff In The Pale Blue Galaxy 500

Post Modern Poetry: A Conjecture

Sometimes I Dream Of The Moon Over Calais

Go I Know Not Where, Fetch I Know Not What (variation?)

To The Beautiful Standing Still

Her White Armour

Go I Know Nor Where, Fetch I Know Not What (first draft?)

God Of All These Paths Outworn

Sweet Unsecreted Light Terrestrial Celestial (unknown word) My Eyes

To The Unknown Poets, In Their Anguish

Till Thistledown, I Blow Away

Paperdoll Newsprint Project Not Even Papier Mache And You Can Do It Too

The Drifting Petals Set At Naught, The Clement Wave

To Certain Poets On The Misuse Of The Poetic Impulse

The Last, Late And Lingering Clouds

Let Now No Glistening Word Depart

If I Lose The White Sun

It Is Still Day

Phantasm

JUNE 2021

Pastorale

Beautiful Cosmos, Amid Our Anguish

Oh Bid The Sweet Dove Back

Return Translucent Ship Of Words, Return;I Cried Into The Open Mic Denied

REPOSTED: To Poetry Forever (In Honor Of National Poetry Month April 2021)

Into Our Wilderness You Dropped The Goldeen Orb Of Song

Hypothetical - Protected Species (to Osip Mandelstam)

Rose Gold In The Autumn Afternoon

The Lilacs In The Evening Of My Poem

Conquistadores

The Beautiful Evening At the End Of The World

The Colour Green Seen As A Country

REPOSTED: Particoloured Tears Were Falling Through The Evening Blind

SciFi

May 2021

To Be Found Again

String Theory

These Raids On Unspeakable Beauty

Looking At The Picture Of Flowers That Grow In The Himalayas

A Little Rococo With Your Cocoa

The Name Of God Fell Out Of The Sky

Poetry Is A Kingdom, Not A Locale

Dreaming In Order

Stray Notes On Stray Pieces Of Paper

The Reparations Rag

Subliminal Convenience Store Justifications Before The Lord/The Elevator Pitch For The Movie

Cherry Vanilla

Holding Onto The Light

There Is A Great River Of Sadness In The World

Transience

How Pursed Lipped The Moderns Were About God

Who Is He Really, The Keeper Of Our Days

Her Descendants

The Decline Of Modern Poetry: The Waning Of The Light

On The History Of Poetry

Here Where The Desolate Reminisce About The Beautiful

On Reading Belatedly Of The Immense Praise By The Irish Times Heaped On Bob 

 Dylan For His Nobel Prize Award

Largo

Where Is The Poem You Sent Out

My Most Roseate Years

Writing The Poem You Long To Be

Staff Picks

To A Young Poet Digging An Early Grave

Hemispheres

Minimalism

On The Deletion Of The Word God From The National Day Of Prayer 

 Declaration As Signed Off On By Joe Biden May 6, 2021

The Flight Of Libraries 

Paper Horse

We Would Not Be

To Sharon My Sister On The Brink Of May

O We Write Poetry

On The Futility Of Intellectualizing About Ray Bradbury My Unopened Letter To The Academics

The Heart Folded Over

Let's Call Everything Poetry Because We Can;t Write The Real Stuff Worth A Tinker's Dam, Sam

Invisible Threads

As They Were In The Original