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The Poetry Spigot Podcast — 554 episodes
Today My Mom Turns 80
Ever By The Grace Of Gravity
My Girl Is Nearly There
Their Size Entirely Untenable
Thanks For Stopping
Because It Has Touched Me Once
The 5-Year Old Iranian Boy with His Arms Crossed
I've Decided
"Nervous System"
First Episode Psychosis
Orange Tree
Phone
We Are Blistering
Afraid To Stand
Lemon Tree
Supreme Court
Not That We Aren’t All Good
This Is The Secret Box Of Time Hidden Between Christmas And New Year’s
Being Like I Always Wanted
What I’m Built For
Homecoming
I Don't Require More In The Way Of Happiness
Idle
A New Edict
How Will I Judge My Bravery While I Was Here
How to Take Oneself Seriously as an Artist
The Index of Everything
At Home in New York
The Gilded and The Ghostly
My Future Love
It Is 7:15am and I Don’t Have Time To Write This Poem
In The Meantime I'll Take Happiness
Victoria Falls Out My Chest
What My Body Knows About Rest
After Scrolling For An Hour, I Have 8 Minutes To Write A Poem
The Privilege of Worry
Shrieking on Descent
What Wild Posse Of Imposters Do I Have To Join To Feel Myself Amongst My Kind
Tsunami of Lassitude
I am Wholly Lost Without Your Words
Craning for Selfies
Opening Day
Careworn
This Gluttony of Pleasures
Abscission By Ethylene
Rebelong Yourself Back To Your Life Again
Standing in the Longest Light
Bird of a Man
We Are Always Better Together
New Daddy
If a Hug Falls in the Woods
Last Night I Kissed a Pig
So I Met God The Other Day
Swan Dive
The Luxury of Silence
It's December 19th And I'm Late With My Packages
Someone Must Have Celebrated Him, But It Was Not Me
Despite This Coddled Architecture
"The Little Girl On The Bed"
Since I've Become More Permeable To The World
Pressed Flat By Possibilities
I'll Show You
I’ve Been Rubenesqued Against My Will
Her Shimmering Grave
These Things Which Must Be Done
This Is One Thing I Love
I Want To Do Everything
I Am Hoping For The Quality Of My Thoughts To Change
I Like A Horizon
Somewhere Between Vacation And My New Life
Final Goodbyes
That Little Bit of Dependable Routine
I Can Miss The Way Things Were Before
Church Camp
Narcissus on Acid
My Great Good Fortune
There Is A Grand Canyon Between Here And There
You Know Me Best
Now That I’ve Left Everything
Baggage Sizer
Everyone Knows You Need A Pair
Mouse in the Sink
All This Time It's Been You And I
"Chocolate Bunny"
The Hungry Wolf
Thank You Especially For Your Going
The Finding Of Love In Any Place
Concussion
We Are All Outsiders
The Altar of Water
Dangerously Safe
When The Life She Wanted Has Been Hiroshima’d
To Move A Thing For Real Using Something Immaterial
If I Can Just Get Used To Aching
I'd Give Everything To See It More Often
Everything I Thought I Knew About Myself Is Gone
Every Year I Think I Can Make It Without AC
The Love That Is Not Yet In My Life
Rough and Unkempt
The Key of Life
When I Saw The Lights Of My City
You Are Saving Lives, David & Renée
Yesterday I Rode The Bus
If I Can Wreak Havoc On Their Repressed But Orderly Life, I Will Feel I Have Succeeded
I Am Great At Almost Everything
This Disappearance Of Everything Being Too Hard
You Are Not A Broken Machine, You Are A Walking Goddamn Mystery Of The Universe
Ice Cream From The Dollar Store
Crawling Out Of A Vat Of Spaghetti
Turns Out That All It Takes To Find Myself Is Some Pro-Social Motherfuckers Like You Guys
I Don’t Know What It Is, But I Am Happy Again
Men Come For Me
I Never Stop Coming
Lucky in Love
If You Ever Want To Talk
What I Know So Far About Mr Social Studies Teacher
I Can't Just Fuck With You, It Fucks Me Too
This Gift From God Must Be Good For Something
I Don't Think I Want To Share a Room With 16 Filthy Pilgrims
What To Do With Myself Every Saturday
I'm Going to Ireland Alone
A Woman My Age is Not Seen Doing That
That Makes Me More Irish I Think
You Patiently Watched Me Sprout
My Feral Language
My Big Problem
What If I Relented and Arrived
I Will Officially Become Olden Bodied
The Cheery Lady with the Open Wound
The Whyte Emerald
The Outline of the Invisible Part of Myself
I Am A Play-Doh
I Am Not A Sitting Duck, I Am A Magnificent Bird
Flag
I Will Allow It
If This Were Happening To Anyone Else I Would Be So Nice
Help Me Surrender My Small Ideas
In The Worm Bin of My Spiritual Growth
I Get Why Old People Get Cynical
This Grief Just Cracks Me Open
Idiopathic Love
Existential Feng Shui Nightmare of Epic Proportions
Three Swords Reversed, Five Shields, Two Cauldrons
How Can I Let Their Small Idea of Me Be Right
It Is Hard To Be a Million Pieces
Warm Eyes
I Swam To Safety
The Better I Get To Know Myself
But Then I Found I Had It
I Must Turn Back Toward the World
The Old Objects of Our Affection
Tiny Holes
Dutch Baby
The Empty Room Called Divorce
So Full of the Sadness I Thought Had Passed
Please Honey Stop Screaming
The Sum of All These Things Equals This Feeling
Not Today, Satan
Platform 9 1/2
Ex-Husband's Birthday
Old Wet Dog
I am Rich With a New Mind
Introduce Yourself
Inside My Vision of a Pop-Up
Notice You Are Not Empty-Handed
Unwind The Peace Spooled In Your Heart
The Budino I Savored
I Would Pay Everything To Know
Some Things Must Be Left in the Dark
Everyone is an Adorable Baby
Blazing Light
Ignore All Your To-Do’s
Haiku
Thanksgiving
Do I Need a Label To Exist
I am From Wherever Place Plays a Piccolo
The Healing of my Self-Hatred
No Time Ever Passes
Today I Will Go to a Muscle Man
Break a Leg
This Truth That Falls Out of Your Head
A Sliver’s Glimpse
Domestic Choreography
Springing Forward
Blessings on Bright Clear Day
Everything is in Perfect Order Everywhere
The Light That Has Not Gone Out
Why is Self-Love So Embarrassing
This Love We Have at Lincoln's
I Think I Should Be Elsewhere
Bring Your New Self Everywhere
Essential Self
Solemn Hush
The Dear Precious Holders of Me
Every Time My Week Is Empty
Doing Something Visible
As I Learn To Love Myself
Crawling Around At The Feet Of Others
Clearly I Am Wrong About Myself
What Remedy Am I For The World
Noah's Ark
The Salvation of Simplicity
Shock Proteins
Look at What You Do Have
Waiting for Rejection, Waiting for Embrace
How to Untie a Burden at a Distance
I Suppose I Don’t Need a Grand Plan
Drop In Pressure
Giving Unhoused Vibes
Cherry Berry Dong Dongs
Prayer For a New Way
Those People
Widow's Walk
It Saves My Gift
Coins in a Dirty Diaper
I Am Like a 12 Year Old Girl
Constrain to a Closer Circumference
Brown Rice and Water Again
Porpoise
My Padded Nest
I'm Full
My Job
Not Knowing Shit
Busy Bees
The Letter S
This Swashbuckling Poet
My Own Eden
Carpe Diem
Carried Away
We Were a Palace of Light
Once In A Blue Moon
Charlie
Gravity
The Things You Keep
Clematis
Some Friends Need Not Stand Close
Moving Home To Myself
Ice Cream Cones With Sprinkles
If Only I Could Get Used To Blindness
Packed to the Gills
Back to School
Coming Back
Double Life
My Thighs Were Not Disgusting
Time Outside
A Bigger Pond
Can I Give Up My Search For My Worth in Your Broken Heart
Interviewing for Position of Weary Travel Companion
Make Peace With the Life You Find Yourself In
Picture Perfect Payback
"Rustle Up Something"
To Be Moved Again
Solstice Blessing
Dad's First Birthday
Even If I Can't Pay Back All My Debts By The End
I Feel in Better Hands Than Ever
Gasping For Peonies
My Life Will Not Always Be Like This
A Smooth-Talking Swindler
Poet Lawyers
Circus Men
Come Inside
Remembered Belonging
A Softness Like Smoke
When You Walk Out of Your Encumberment
I Might Like to be That Sort of Magician
The Captain of my Ship Has Been Given the Brown Acid
If The Purpose Of Life Is Not To Save The World
The Mind is Good at Keeping Surprises
To Birth A Coup Requires A Nap After
Blindness to Blessedness
To Be Known Intimately From A Distance
I Feel Like a Pillowcase Full of Cats
Scared to See You
To Say Too Much About Yourself All At Once
Yesterday I Said Yes
My Mom is Like a 5 Year Old
None Of This Is A Real Thing
Poetry Is Not Depressing
The Fingerprint I Find Every Time
When You Are Not Busy
When You Live Alone
An Eye of God Looking Back on Itself
When The Beauty Makes Me Sad
Impractical Woman
What I Want With a Man
Raconteuse
Quiet Elliott
When Someone is There But Their Heart is Not
A Bath, a Barber, and a Sidewalk Hygentist
Zeus-y Lightning
Banter of Builders
To Be In A Room With Like Minds
No Plans
Sturdy Rumpley Elegance
Good Sleep
When The World Has No Fig Leaves To Cover Itself
Whoring Out the Prima Ballerina of the National Ballet
Making Deals with the Devil
This is Why We Can't Stay High All the Time
Back in the Terrarium
Let’s Get Some FDIC Shit Up In Here
Maybe Now is a Good Time to Try Everything
Waiting For God To Throw My Stick
Like Endorphins On Tap at 7-11
Disoriented
I Want To Be A Frog In That Warm Water
Who Do I Think I Am?
I've Arrived
I Can't Write Poetry Like This
I Always Want To Be On Top
Me and My Guy at the Gate
The High in My Thighs
My Portland, Maine
Men Are Blind
Realizing I'm Adopted
Stuck in a Thicket
Laden With Riches
To Write More Words is to Make More Work
1000 Push-Ups
A Solo Captain
So Jolly Are We
Acid In My French Press
You Can't See Shit
New Year's Excitement
The Joy Circuits Are Jammed
You Haven't Left Your Family After All
Cynicism Check-In
I Value Hopeful Optimism
A Woman Who Still Has Eyes For Life
Delicate Fingers
I See You Are The Golden Prize
Plump and Poised
Shine Together
Next Level Hygge
I Come From Swedes
The Winter Was Repulsive
You're No Match
The Way Nature Cinches You Tighter Together
Wintress
The Bull of Winter
I Do Better The Days I Feel Pretty
Sleepaway Camp for Comics
An Incremental Deposit
This Little Grazing Devil
The Shout of Gout
Real Feel
Being One's Own Christmas Pudding
Take Heart Little Chicky
Chocolate-Covered Cherries
In Your Bunny Body
That Tiny Gesture of Generosity
Love Unwrapped
Remembering Our Bigness
Winter Wrestling
A Heaven With Pain In It
Crunch Time
To Be a Happy Passenger Instead
That Bold Posture of Hopefulness
Something You've Never Said Yourself
My House is a Sterile Field
Yin Wins
Now That You're Unmoored
Asking To Be Picked
In What Room I'll Belong
When I Get Done Being Mad
With Her Wildness
Less Will Do
The Sweet Gift of Julian
Me and a Band of Spirits
Slightly Stunned
My Own Holy Place
I Try To Be Out
Our Favorite Guy
The High Tea Version of a Shit Sandwich
Bed Pleasure
Drawing Inwards
Why I'm Pumped
Subpar Squat
See Through Fingers
The Ear Muffs Of Words
The Mercedes and the Mud Mutt
Sisterly Sustenance
This Orchestra of Kindness
Sabari The Charge Nurse
Like a Bird From His Branch
New Eyes To See Everything
The Crevasse I'm Straddling
My Dad's Body
FaceTime
It's A Lot To Hold
And So I Shit My Pants and Get Into My Boat
If I Could Bring Mercy Faster
Beer and Syrup and Truffles
It Only Seemed Natural
My Old Lady Bologna Sandwich Fund
I Wanna Go Deep
Adrian poemette
The Exercise of Lifting the Heart
Parts Counting
To Bring a New Vista to Her Eyes
That Irish Hospitality
The Spice of Life
The Quiet Invisible Despair of Becoming Yourself
Nothing To Keep You Warm
Sad But Not Devastating
Making My Rooms Ready
Today's Word is Leave
The Agony of Blindness
You Step Over It
The Giant Faberge Egg Under A Tarp In The Driveway
The Vestment of Nakedness
Being Fallow
My Heart Is Getting Off At Your Exit
Call Me Inside
Enough for the Day
To Live Seaside
Pickle Myself In Love
Dangerous Conversations
A Gorgeous Day in Fall
Some Weather
A Deer in the Headlights
Adults Who Can Keep Their Clothes On
Being Measured For Your Fitting
She Flanks Me
I Could Have a Threesome Perhaps
Our More Rubenesque Nature
The Two Kinds of Love
The Twitchy Ravenous Devourer
Miles of Stratum Corneum
Your Great Good Fortune
In The Garden with Joe
After Two Weeks of Feeling Repulsive
Basket Weavers of the Euphrates
The Happiest Fatigue
Shining For All Time
All I Could Ever Want
The Way Life Should Be
Please Let Him Be
The Art of Repose
These Invisible Constraints
A Little Spiffier
A Kiss in Words
A Nice Night Out
The Bone Show
1000 Superdomes
Ambient Weirdness
It's Not Bad Work
A Lucky Grab
Here Towards The End
The Attack of the Black Snake Lady
These Words Are Not Rubbish
At Least I'll Be Dancing - 5 poemettes
The Gift of the Fog in the Mind
I Do Want For Company
Crave It Like a Burger
So Much To See
Rugged In Their Pliableness
Par For The Course
A Poem About a Biscuit
Overyjoyed, Except Now
I'm So Good At Everything It Seems
Not A Lot of Action for The Naturalist
The Body Calls To Be Taken Out
Her Vehicle Needs A Break
It's Too Big
Pleasure's Attendant is Pain
Little Stage on the Page
The Hindu Goddess with the Whirling Arms
The Coast Is Clear
Modest Plenty
No Dark Corners To Hide In
How God Answers My Prayers for Money
What I'm Protecting You From
The Exhibitionism Has A Cost
Waking Up "Nuxy"
Who You Fear You'd Meet
Family Circle
The Repulsive Mood
That's My Girl
Prayer and Decluttering
Ready for Rebirth
It Can't Be Helped
Blanket-Fort Builder
Safely Comported
Being A Wide Receiver
If Easy Is Wrong, I Don't Want To Be Right
The Right Tool For The Job
My Visit With Molly
Mom and the Assless Chaps
The Predictable Non-Conformist
The Bryonia Alba
All The Things Related To Dating
A God Given Talent
The Editorial Committee
Grateful for Paper
Mundane Delight
Journaling or Poet-ing
A Sunday Blessing
The Voice Thing
A Festival of Gloating
Craig and Classism
A Black Box Warning For My Readers
I Like Have Some Seriously Helpful Shit
Embarrassing Words Come Out
A Refill of Those Eyes
I'm Out of Clean Undies
The Juxtaposition
Go Outside Right Now
I Shout From My Heart
A Treasure Find
A Perpetual Obstacle
It's Like the ER in Here
A Gently Charged Particle
The Periods of Life That Are Not Total Shit
A Good Time in The Meantime
Peace is Impressive Enough
The Kind of Problem I'd Like To Be Facing
A Convo With Vlad
The Costume Department
The People Who Already Do
The Turtle Man
Hostile Peaceful Takeover
The Thing That Happens Without Trying
Ghosted by a Librarian
I'm Kind of a Stripper
Glitch in the System
Polar Exhibitionism
The Visitor Center
What If That Something Was Myself
God's Lasso
The Issue of the Ridiculous
Essential Worker
A Body of Flan
Petunia Rose Hellfire
The Spell is Broken
If He Swerves
The No-Tack Approach
She Didn't Mind Eavesdroppers
Maybe He Knows The Way
Transferrable Commodity
Friends In Low Places
You've Caught Me at a Good Time
I've Always Worked For Free
So Anemic My Heart
Up Here In The Attic
The Binoculars You've Got
Poetry Machine
How I Use My Silks
The Changing Room
There's No Unseeing That
How Far Past Eager
A Poet's Costume
The Solution of Another