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Ever By The Grace Of Gravity

2

My Girl Is Nearly There

3

Their Size Entirely Untenable

4

Thanks For Stopping

5

Because It Has Touched Me Once

6

The 5-Year Old Iranian Boy with His Arms Crossed

7

I've Decided

8

"Nervous System"

9

First Episode Psychosis

10

Orange Tree

11

Phone

12

We Are Blistering

13

Afraid To Stand

14

Lemon Tree

15

Supreme Court

16

Not That We Aren’t All Good

17

This Is The Secret Box Of Time Hidden Between Christmas And New Year’s

18

Being Like I Always Wanted

19

What I’m Built For

20

Homecoming

21

I Don't Require More In The Way Of Happiness

22

Idle

23

A New Edict

24

How Will I Judge My Bravery While I Was Here

25

How to Take Oneself Seriously as an Artist

26

The Index of Everything

27

At Home in New York

28

The Gilded and The Ghostly

29

My Future Love

30

It Is 7:15am and I Don’t Have Time To Write This Poem

31

In The Meantime I'll Take Happiness

32

Victoria Falls Out My Chest

33

What My Body Knows About Rest

34

After Scrolling For An Hour, I Have 8 Minutes To Write A Poem

35

The Privilege of Worry

36

Shrieking on Descent

37

What Wild Posse Of Imposters Do I Have To Join To Feel Myself Amongst My Kind

38

Tsunami of Lassitude

39

I am Wholly Lost Without Your Words

40

Craning for Selfies

41

Opening Day

42

Careworn

43

This Gluttony of Pleasures

44

Abscission By Ethylene

45

Rebelong Yourself Back To Your Life Again

46

Standing in the Longest Light

47

Bird of a Man

48

We Are Always Better Together

49

New Daddy

50

If a Hug Falls in the Woods

51

Last Night I Kissed a Pig

52

So I Met God The Other Day

53

Swan Dive

54

The Luxury of Silence

55

It's December 19th And I'm Late With My Packages

56

Someone Must Have Celebrated Him, But It Was Not Me

57

Despite This Coddled Architecture

58

"The Little Girl On The Bed"

59

Since I've Become More Permeable To The World

60

Pressed Flat By Possibilities

61

I'll Show You

62

I’ve Been Rubenesqued Against My Will

63

Her Shimmering Grave

64

These Things Which Must Be Done

65

This Is One Thing I Love

66

I Want To Do Everything

67

I Am Hoping For The Quality Of My Thoughts To Change

68

I Like A Horizon

69

Somewhere Between Vacation And My New Life

70

Final Goodbyes

71

That Little Bit of Dependable Routine

72

I Can Miss The Way Things Were Before

73

Church Camp

74

Narcissus on Acid

75

My Great Good Fortune

76

There Is A Grand Canyon Between Here And There

77

You Know Me Best

78

Now That I’ve Left Everything

79

Baggage Sizer

80

Everyone Knows You Need A Pair

81

Mouse in the Sink

82

All This Time It's Been You And I

83

"Chocolate Bunny"

84

The Hungry Wolf

85

Thank You Especially For Your Going

86

The Finding Of Love In Any Place

87

Concussion

88

We Are All Outsiders

89

The Altar of Water

90

Dangerously Safe

91

When The Life She Wanted Has Been Hiroshima’d

92

To Move A Thing For Real Using Something Immaterial

93

If I Can Just Get Used To Aching

94

I'd Give Everything To See It More Often

95

Everything I Thought I Knew About Myself Is Gone

96

Every Year I Think I Can Make It Without AC

97

The Love That Is Not Yet In My Life

98

Rough and Unkempt

99

The Key of Life

100

When I Saw The Lights Of My City

101

You Are Saving Lives, David & Renée

102

Yesterday I Rode The Bus

103

If I Can Wreak Havoc On Their Repressed But Orderly Life, I Will Feel I Have Succeeded

104

I Am Great At Almost Everything

105

This Disappearance Of Everything Being Too Hard

106

You Are Not A Broken Machine, You Are A Walking Goddamn Mystery Of The Universe

107

Ice Cream From The Dollar Store

108

Crawling Out Of A Vat Of Spaghetti

109

Turns Out That All It Takes To Find Myself Is Some Pro-Social Motherfuckers Like You Guys

110

I Don’t Know What It Is, But I Am Happy Again

111

Men Come For Me

112

I Never Stop Coming

113

Lucky in Love

114

If You Ever Want To Talk

115

What I Know So Far About Mr Social Studies Teacher

116

I Can't Just Fuck With You, It Fucks Me Too

117

This Gift From God Must Be Good For Something

118

I Don't Think I Want To Share a Room With 16 Filthy Pilgrims

119

What To Do With Myself Every Saturday

120

I'm Going to Ireland Alone

121

A Woman My Age is Not Seen Doing That

122

That Makes Me More Irish I Think

123

You Patiently Watched Me Sprout

124

My Feral Language

125

My Big Problem

126

What If I Relented and Arrived

127

I Will Officially Become Olden Bodied

128

The Cheery Lady with the Open Wound

129

The Whyte Emerald

130

The Outline of the Invisible Part of Myself

131

I Am A Play-Doh

132

I Am Not A Sitting Duck, I Am A Magnificent Bird

133

Flag

134

I Will Allow It

135

If This Were Happening To Anyone Else I Would Be So Nice

136

Help Me Surrender My Small Ideas

137

In The Worm Bin of My Spiritual Growth

138

I Get Why Old People Get Cynical

139

This Grief Just Cracks Me Open

140

Idiopathic Love

141

Existential Feng Shui Nightmare of Epic Proportions

142

Three Swords Reversed, Five Shields, Two Cauldrons

143

How Can I Let Their Small Idea of Me Be Right

144

It Is Hard To Be a Million Pieces

145

Warm Eyes

146

I Swam To Safety

147

The Better I Get To Know Myself

148

But Then I Found I Had It

149

I Must Turn Back Toward the World

150

The Old Objects of Our Affection

151

Tiny Holes

152

Dutch Baby

153

The Empty Room Called Divorce

154

So Full of the Sadness I Thought Had Passed

155

Please Honey Stop Screaming

156

The Sum of All These Things Equals This Feeling

157

Not Today, Satan

158

Platform 9 1/2

159

Ex-Husband's Birthday

160

Old Wet Dog

161

I am Rich With a New Mind

162

Introduce Yourself

163

Inside My Vision of a Pop-Up

164

Notice You Are Not Empty-Handed

165

Unwind The Peace Spooled In Your Heart

166

The Budino I Savored

167

I Would Pay Everything To Know

168

Some Things Must Be Left in the Dark

169

Everyone is an Adorable Baby

170

Blazing Light

171

Ignore All Your To-Do’s

172

Haiku

173

Thanksgiving

174

Do I Need a Label To Exist

175

I am From Wherever Place Plays a Piccolo

176

The Healing of my Self-Hatred

177

No Time Ever Passes

178

Today I Will Go to a Muscle Man

179

Break a Leg

180

This Truth That Falls Out of Your Head

181

A Sliver’s Glimpse

182

Domestic Choreography

183

Springing Forward

184

Blessings on Bright Clear Day

185

Everything is in Perfect Order Everywhere

186

The Light That Has Not Gone Out

187

Why is Self-Love So Embarrassing

188

This Love We Have at Lincoln's

189

I Think I Should Be Elsewhere

190

Bring Your New Self Everywhere

191

Essential Self

192

Solemn Hush

193

The Dear Precious Holders of Me

194

Every Time My Week Is Empty

195

Doing Something Visible

196

As I Learn To Love Myself

197

Crawling Around At The Feet Of Others

198

Clearly I Am Wrong About Myself

199

What Remedy Am I For The World

200

Noah's Ark

201

The Salvation of Simplicity

202

Shock Proteins

203

Look at What You Do Have

204

Waiting for Rejection, Waiting for Embrace

205

How to Untie a Burden at a Distance

206

I Suppose I Don’t Need a Grand Plan

207

Drop In Pressure

208

Giving Unhoused Vibes

209

Cherry Berry Dong Dongs

210

Prayer For a New Way

211

Those People

212

Widow's Walk

213

It Saves My Gift

214

Coins in a Dirty Diaper

215

I Am Like a 12 Year Old Girl

216

Constrain to a Closer Circumference

217

Brown Rice and Water Again

218

Porpoise

219

My Padded Nest

220

I'm Full

221

My Job

222

Not Knowing Shit

223

Busy Bees

224

The Letter S

225

This Swashbuckling Poet

226

My Own Eden

227

Carpe Diem

228

Carried Away

229

We Were a Palace of Light

230

Once In A Blue Moon

231

Charlie

232

Gravity

233

The Things You Keep

234

Clematis

235

Some Friends Need Not Stand Close

236

Moving Home To Myself

237

Ice Cream Cones With Sprinkles

238

If Only I Could Get Used To Blindness

239

Packed to the Gills

240

Back to School

241

Coming Back

242

Double Life

243

My Thighs Were Not Disgusting

244

Time Outside

245

A Bigger Pond

246

Can I Give Up My Search For My Worth in Your Broken Heart

247

Interviewing for Position of Weary Travel Companion

248

Make Peace With the Life You Find Yourself In

249

Picture Perfect Payback

250

"Rustle Up Something"

251

To Be Moved Again

252

Solstice Blessing

253

Dad's First Birthday

254

Even If I Can't Pay Back All My Debts By The End

255

I Feel in Better Hands Than Ever

256

Gasping For Peonies

257

My Life Will Not Always Be Like This

258

A Smooth-Talking Swindler

259

Poet Lawyers

260

Circus Men

261

Come Inside

262

Remembered Belonging

263

A Softness Like Smoke

264

When You Walk Out of Your Encumberment

265

I Might Like to be That Sort of Magician

266

The Captain of my Ship Has Been Given the Brown Acid

267

If The Purpose Of Life Is Not To Save The World

268

The Mind is Good at Keeping Surprises

269

To Birth A Coup Requires A Nap After

270

Blindness to Blessedness

271

To Be Known Intimately From A Distance

272

I Feel Like a Pillowcase Full of Cats

273

Scared to See You

274

To Say Too Much About Yourself All At Once

275

Yesterday I Said Yes

276

My Mom is Like a 5 Year Old

277

None Of This Is A Real Thing

278

Poetry Is Not Depressing

279

The Fingerprint I Find Every Time

280

When You Are Not Busy

281

When You Live Alone

282

An Eye of God Looking Back on Itself

283

When The Beauty Makes Me Sad

284

Impractical Woman

285

What I Want With a Man

286

Raconteuse

287

Quiet Elliott

288

When Someone is There But Their Heart is Not

289

A Bath, a Barber, and a Sidewalk Hygentist

290

Zeus-y Lightning

291

Banter of Builders

292

To Be In A Room With Like Minds

293

No Plans

294

Sturdy Rumpley Elegance

295

Good Sleep

296

When The World Has No Fig Leaves To Cover Itself

297

Whoring Out the Prima Ballerina of the National Ballet

298

Making Deals with the Devil

299

This is Why We Can't Stay High All the Time

300

Back in the Terrarium

301

Let’s Get Some FDIC Shit Up In Here

302

Maybe Now is a Good Time to Try Everything

303

Waiting For God To Throw My Stick

304

Like Endorphins On Tap at 7-11

305

Disoriented

306

I Want To Be A Frog In That Warm Water

307

Who Do I Think I Am?

308

I've Arrived

309

I Can't Write Poetry Like This

310

I Always Want To Be On Top

311

Me and My Guy at the Gate

312

The High in My Thighs

313

My Portland, Maine

314

Men Are Blind

315

Realizing I'm Adopted

316

Stuck in a Thicket

317

Laden With Riches

318

To Write More Words is to Make More Work

319

1000 Push-Ups

320

A Solo Captain

321

So Jolly Are We

322

Acid In My French Press

323

You Can't See Shit

324

New Year's Excitement

325

The Joy Circuits Are Jammed

326

You Haven't Left Your Family After All

327

Cynicism Check-In

328

I Value Hopeful Optimism

329

A Woman Who Still Has Eyes For Life

330

Delicate Fingers

331

I See You Are The Golden Prize

332

Plump and Poised

333

Shine Together

334

Next Level Hygge

335

I Come From Swedes

336

The Winter Was Repulsive

337

You're No Match

338

The Way Nature Cinches You Tighter Together

339

Wintress

340

The Bull of Winter

341

I Do Better The Days I Feel Pretty

342

Sleepaway Camp for Comics

343

An Incremental Deposit

344

This Little Grazing Devil

345

The Shout of Gout

346

Real Feel

347

Being One's Own Christmas Pudding

348

Take Heart Little Chicky

349

Chocolate-Covered Cherries

350

In Your Bunny Body

351

That Tiny Gesture of Generosity

352

Love Unwrapped

353

Remembering Our Bigness

354

Winter Wrestling

355

A Heaven With Pain In It

356

Crunch Time

357

To Be a Happy Passenger Instead

358

That Bold Posture of Hopefulness

359

Something You've Never Said Yourself

360

My House is a Sterile Field

361

Yin Wins

362

Now That You're Unmoored

363

Asking To Be Picked

364

In What Room I'll Belong

365

When I Get Done Being Mad

366

With Her Wildness

367

Less Will Do

368

The Sweet Gift of Julian

369

Me and a Band of Spirits

370

Slightly Stunned

371

My Own Holy Place

372

I Try To Be Out

373

Our Favorite Guy

374

The High Tea Version of a Shit Sandwich

375

Bed Pleasure

376

Drawing Inwards

377

Why I'm Pumped

378

Subpar Squat

379

See Through Fingers

380

The Ear Muffs Of Words

381

The Mercedes and the Mud Mutt

382

Sisterly Sustenance

383

This Orchestra of Kindness

384

Sabari The Charge Nurse

385

Like a Bird From His Branch

386

New Eyes To See Everything

387

The Crevasse I'm Straddling

388

My Dad's Body

389

FaceTime

390

It's A Lot To Hold

391

And So I Shit My Pants and Get Into My Boat

392

If I Could Bring Mercy Faster

393

Beer and Syrup and Truffles

394

It Only Seemed Natural

395

My Old Lady Bologna Sandwich Fund

396

I Wanna Go Deep

397

Adrian poemette

398

The Exercise of Lifting the Heart

399

Parts Counting

400

To Bring a New Vista to Her Eyes

401

That Irish Hospitality

402

The Spice of Life

403

The Quiet Invisible Despair of Becoming Yourself

404

Nothing To Keep You Warm

405

Sad But Not Devastating

406

Making My Rooms Ready

407

Today's Word is Leave

408

The Agony of Blindness

409

You Step Over It

410

The Giant Faberge Egg Under A Tarp In The Driveway

411

The Vestment of Nakedness

412

Being Fallow

413

My Heart Is Getting Off At Your Exit

414

Call Me Inside

415

Enough for the Day

416

To Live Seaside

417

Pickle Myself In Love

418

Dangerous Conversations

419

A Gorgeous Day in Fall

420

Some Weather

421

A Deer in the Headlights

422

Adults Who Can Keep Their Clothes On

423

Being Measured For Your Fitting

424

She Flanks Me

425

I Could Have a Threesome Perhaps

426

Our More Rubenesque Nature

427

The Two Kinds of Love

428

The Twitchy Ravenous Devourer

429

Miles of Stratum Corneum

430

Your Great Good Fortune

431

In The Garden with Joe

432

After Two Weeks of Feeling Repulsive

433

Basket Weavers of the Euphrates

434

The Happiest Fatigue

435

Shining For All Time

436

All I Could Ever Want

437

The Way Life Should Be

438

Please Let Him Be

439

The Art of Repose

440

These Invisible Constraints

441

A Little Spiffier

442

A Kiss in Words

443

A Nice Night Out

444

The Bone Show

445

1000 Superdomes

446

Ambient Weirdness

447

It's Not Bad Work

448

A Lucky Grab

449

Here Towards The End

450

The Attack of the Black Snake Lady

451

These Words Are Not Rubbish

452

At Least I'll Be Dancing - 5 poemettes

453

The Gift of the Fog in the Mind

454

I Do Want For Company

455

Crave It Like a Burger

456

So Much To See

457

Rugged In Their Pliableness

458

Par For The Course

459

A Poem About a Biscuit

460

Overyjoyed, Except Now

461

I'm So Good At Everything It Seems

462

Not A Lot of Action for The Naturalist

463

The Body Calls To Be Taken Out

464

Her Vehicle Needs A Break

465

It's Too Big

466

Pleasure's Attendant is Pain

467

Little Stage on the Page

468

The Hindu Goddess with the Whirling Arms

469

The Coast Is Clear

470

Modest Plenty

471

No Dark Corners To Hide In

472

How God Answers My Prayers for Money

473

What I'm Protecting You From

474

The Exhibitionism Has A Cost

475

Waking Up "Nuxy"

476

Who You Fear You'd Meet

477

Family Circle

478

The Repulsive Mood

479

That's My Girl

480

Prayer and Decluttering

481

Ready for Rebirth

482

It Can't Be Helped

483

Blanket-Fort Builder

484

Safely Comported

485

Being A Wide Receiver

486

If Easy Is Wrong, I Don't Want To Be Right

487

The Right Tool For The Job

488

My Visit With Molly

489

Mom and the Assless Chaps

490

The Predictable Non-Conformist

491

The Bryonia Alba

492

All The Things Related To Dating

493

A God Given Talent

494

The Editorial Committee

495

Grateful for Paper

496

Mundane Delight

497

Journaling or Poet-ing

498

A Sunday Blessing

499

The Voice Thing

500

A Festival of Gloating

501

Craig and Classism

502

A Black Box Warning For My Readers

503

I Like Have Some Seriously Helpful Shit

504

Embarrassing Words Come Out

505

A Refill of Those Eyes

506

I'm Out of Clean Undies

507

The Juxtaposition

508

Go Outside Right Now

509

I Shout From My Heart

510

A Treasure Find

511

A Perpetual Obstacle

512

It's Like the ER in Here

513

A Gently Charged Particle

514

The Periods of Life That Are Not Total Shit

515

A Good Time in The Meantime

516

Peace is Impressive Enough

517

The Kind of Problem I'd Like To Be Facing

518

A Convo With Vlad

519

The Costume Department

520

The People Who Already Do

521

The Turtle Man

522

Hostile Peaceful Takeover

523

The Thing That Happens Without Trying

524

Ghosted by a Librarian

525

I'm Kind of a Stripper

526

Glitch in the System

527

Polar Exhibitionism

528

The Visitor Center

529

What If That Something Was Myself

530

God's Lasso

531

The Issue of the Ridiculous

532

Essential Worker

533

A Body of Flan

534

Petunia Rose Hellfire

535

The Spell is Broken

536

If He Swerves

537

The No-Tack Approach

538

She Didn't Mind Eavesdroppers

539

Maybe He Knows The Way

540

Transferrable Commodity

541

Friends In Low Places

542

You've Caught Me at a Good Time

543

I've Always Worked For Free

544

So Anemic My Heart

545

Up Here In The Attic

546

The Binoculars You've Got

547

Poetry Machine

548

How I Use My Silks

549

The Changing Room

550

There's No Unseeing That

551

How Far Past Eager

552

A Poet's Costume

553

The Solution of Another