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MY BIO

1. "You are a fool to think I'm beautiful" -- critiqued
2. **Baubles**
3. -30-
4. 18 1/2 (A Vision of Home) -- critiqued
5. 1957 Scene (Starring John Birks Gillespie)
6. 1974 -- critiqued
7. 20.9
8. 24th Street Dream -- critiqued
9. 26 Hours (Brenna Poem ii) -- critiqued
10. 38 Today -- critiqued
11. 39 (Perils of Colleen)
12. 45
13. 915 to Hickory Ridge
14. A Bird That Eats Lollipops
15. A Candlelit Life
16. A Circle Broken (For Marty White) -- critiqued
17. A Day of Rest -- critiqued
18. A Drinker's Affirmation -- critiqued
19. A Gift for David -- critiqued
20. A Kitchen of My Own -- critiqued
21. A Moment, February 5th -- critiqued
22. A Simple Task
23. A Suburban Moment
24. A Veil is Lifted -- critiqued
25. A Very Long Walk
26. Affliction -- critiqued
27. Agriculture II
28. America
29. An Angel Walks Away -- critiqued
30. an artist? in December
31. An Artistic Life -- critiqued
32. Another View of Autumn
33. Another Vision of Home -- critiqued
34. April Rain -- critiqued
35. April Reality
36. As You Graduate
37. At the Allen Lee, First Night
38. At the Allen Lee, Later that Evening
39. Autopsy -- critiqued
40. Awake
41. Baby Girl -- critiqued
42. Baby Girl 2
43. Battle Lines
44. Beauty Burns
45. Big Wet Smack -- critiqued
46. Biography, 24 April
47. Bizarre Thoughts -- critiqued
48. Blessing
49. Blood Before Nightfall -- critiqued
50. Blue Glow
51. Blue House (Wisconsin & Chesapeake)
52. Blue Night
53. Blue Sweater Woman, Tuesday Morning -- critiqued
54. Blues From a Hollow Man -- critiqued
55. Bored -- critiqued
56. Bridges -- critiqued
57. Brittle Words -- critiqued
58. Burial of a LIfe
59. Butterfield 411
60. Car Radio
61. Celebration of a Life -- critiqued
62. Celeste -- critiqued
63. Center of the Universe
64. Child Beside a Creek
65. Church
66. Conversation with a Poet
67. Corinne's Closet -- critiqued
68. Craving
69. Craving Ice Cream
70. Crayola Landscape -- critiqued
71. Crystal Love
72. Dance Recital
73. Dance, and Stillness
74. Dancers by Degas -- critiqued
75. Dangerous Daydreams
76. Dark Country
77. Dark Too Early
78. David
79. December Letter to Marina
80. Delaware
81. Departure (For Jessica)
82. Distant As The Moon -- critiqued
83. Division -- critiqued
84. Doctor Visit
85. Dream
86. Dream # 129
87. Dream # 524
88. Dream # 623
89. Dream (April 16th, 2000)
90. Dream Garden -- critiqued
91. Dressed In Red {Lonely Day} -- critiqued
92. Dupont Circle, Saturday Night
93. Earth Mother (First Impression)
94. Echo
95. Evening on Belmont Street
96. eyeshadow.jpg
97. Face, 22
98. Falls
99. February Dream
100. February Sixth
101. Five Sixteen
102. Flamenco Poet
103. For Alma (Where She Wants To Be)
104. For JoAnn
105. Forecast
106. Forgotten One
107. Four Fifteen
108. Four Thirty Poem for Gwen
109. Fruit of All Our Love
110. Frustration (a love poem)
111. Gift from Marina
112. Glow
113. Go Away (Go Slowly)
114. Going The River
115. good morning
116. Having Just Stepped Off The Mothership -- critiqued
117. Healer In Repose
118. Hellfire Skies
119. Holes in the Night
120. Holiday Cheer
121. Honeysuckle
122. House Full of Treasures
123. How I Became the Poet I am
124. How To Write a Poem
125. Human Nature
126. I Hated Poetry -- critiqued
127. Ibo-Colored Words
128. In Silence
129. In Veronica's Space
130. Independence
131. Ink-Stained Madonna -- critiqued
132. Inspiration Found
133. Interview -- critiqued
134. Invention
135. Jewels
136. John Courage
137. Journal Entry (Reading Baraka)
138. Jude's Disciple
139. Kool Filter King -- critiqued
140. Lady CK -- critiqued
141. Lanterns
142. Lauren
143. Lens
144. Let the Curtain Fall, to Slow Music
145. Letter from Jane Varley
146. Letter to a Friend -- critiqued
147. Lonesome Poem -- critiqued
148. Lonesome Poem
149. Looking Like a Poet -- critiqued
150. Love Scenes -- critiqued
151. Love Story -- critiqued
152. Lovers Observed
153. Loving Ariel
154. Lunch In Irvine
155. Majestic Hands -- critiqued
156. McPherson Square
157. Mealtime Conversations
158. Memorandum # 4544
159. Meredith .3
160. Message to Ariel
161. Milwaukee Skyline (Part I)
162. Milwaukee Skyline (Part II, The Avenue)
163. Mirror Dream
164. Misty White
165. Montford Avenue Misty Morning
166. Morning After
167. Morning Dance
168. Mother's Day Poem
169. Mothers and Muses
170. Mountain Bird
171. Mournful Aphrodite
172. mrs johnson
173. mukwonago
174. Music From an Electric Train
175. My Room
176. Mystery 13
177. Naomi's Passover
178. Netta's Triumph
179. New Hope, Pennsylvania
180. New York Journey
181. New York Moments
182. North Michigan Park
183. November Shadow
184. Nude Descending a Staircase
185. Oblivion
186. October Scene (McPherson Square 4)
187. One Day In Winter
188. One Forty-Five, Thursday Afternoon
189. One Kind of Labor
190. Outsider Art
191. Packing (Allen Lee 4)
192. Pamela
193. Pannonica
194. Pastel Ballerina
195. Pastel Lady
196. Patricia Madigan
197. Picking
198. Pink Little World
199. Poem For Sylvia
200. Poem {Invisible}
201. Poems with Trains
202. Poet's Song
203. Poet's Song II -- critiqued
204. PoetessXVI
205. Poetic Outlaw -- critiqued
206. Portrait of My Lost Corinne
207. Prized Possession
208. Prufrock Redux
209. Pure
210. Rain Gray Day
211. Rainy Morning
212. Read To Me
213. Read to me, Page 2
214. Red Balloon
215. Red Rose Harbor
216. Regina's World -- critiqued
217. Regrets
218. Religion
219. Remaining Time
220. Revelation
221. Revolution number 10 (for Kenny Carroll) -- critiqued
222. Riposte (To Mr. Pound) -- critiqued
223. Rising Slowly
224. Romantic Figure
225. Rose Haze
226. Rose-Colored Evening
227. RosePoem
228. Ruled by Gravity
229. Sable
230. Sailboats In A Window
231. Sanctuary
232. Sanctuary III
233. Scene With Roseanne -- critiqued
234. Sea of Secrets -- critiqued
235. Search
236. Selena's Aura
237. September Poem
238. Shadow
239. She Inspires
240. She Is (Constance Poem 3)
241. She Is Not Here
242. She Ride White Horse
243. Shooting
244. Shop
245. Show Me
246. Silk Rose (A Ride With Erica)
247. Silver Midnight
248. Sky Cradle Woman
249. Small Blue Autumn Poem
250. Small Blue Desert Poem
251. Small Blue Dream Poem
252. Small Blue Home Poem
253. Small Blue Love Poem -- critiqued
254. Small Blue Poem # 1 -- critiqued
255. Small Blue Poem # 10 (December Dream)
256. Small Blue Poem # 2
257. Small Blue Poem # 3 -- critiqued
258. Small Blue Poem # 4 (Memory Wheel)
259. Small Blue Poem # 5
260. Snow Poem 2
261. Solitude
262. Solstice
263. Song of Freedom
264. Storm Journey
265. Strapped, 1991
266. Strawberry
267. Street Corner Majesty
268. subaqueous
269. Summer City
270. Sunday With Erica -- critiqued
271. Swain
272. sweet dream -- critiqued
273. Sweet's Love Song
274. Takoma Poem
275. Tale of Joseph
276. Tennessee -- critiqued
277. The Girl In The Photograph -- critiqued
278. The Glittering Children -- critiqued
279. The Last Time I Saw Leonard
280. The Luck of the Draw
281. The Man on the Street
282. The Mystery Beside Me
283. The Sandwich Makers -- critiqued
284. The Sculptor -- critiqued
285. The Space Around Her
286. The Tourist
287. The Way To Eden
288. Three Voices
289. Tired
290. To a Twelve-year-old Poet -- critiqued
291. To Share a Sweet Existence -- critiqued
292. To the Woman I Write About -- critiqued
293. Today
294. Transformation
295. Trees Afire
296. Tune for Julie
297. Twenty-One
298. Union Station, Saturday Morning -- critiqued
299. Unity
300. Velvet Prison
301. Venus and Artemis
302. Vienna to Asheville
303. Vision in Yellow
304. Vision of Time
305. Visit to Vienna
306. Visitors' Chair
307. Voice
308. Volcano
309. Waiting for You (Blue Room 2)
310. Waking
311. Walk Through Any Door
312. Walking Home (Black Shadow)
313. Walking Home (Freedom)
314. War Story
315. We Rule Gently
316. Web of Life
317. Wednesday Afternoon, Midway Airport
318. Welcome To My World
319. What Belongs to Me -- critiqued
320. What I Need
321. What inspired you to cross that river yesterday?
322. When Men Walked on the Moon
323. Where I Came From
324. White -- critiqued
325. Who Am I? (6 Replies) -- critiqued
326. Who is this girl, Sabrina?
327. Why she spells it "Erykah" -- critiqued
328. Wild and Precious LIfe -- critiqued
329. Wild Night -- critiqued
330. Winter Morning -- critiqued
331. Winter Songs -- critiqued
332. Woman -- critiqued
333. Woman of Mystery (to me) -- critiqued
334. Woman Poem -- critiqued
335. Word Document, March 15th -- critiqued
336. Would You Love Me?
337. Wounded Child
338. X
339. Xmas Poem