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1

I Am Carrying Such Muchness

2

Today My Mom Turns 80

3

Ever By The Grace Of Gravity

4

My Girl Is Nearly There

5

Their Size Entirely Untenable

6

Thanks For Stopping

7

Because It Has Touched Me Once

8

The 5-Year Old Iranian Boy with His Arms Crossed

9

I've Decided

10

"Nervous System"

11

First Episode Psychosis

12

Orange Tree

13

Phone

14

We Are Blistering

15

Afraid To Stand

16

Lemon Tree

17

Supreme Court

18

Not That We Aren’t All Good

19

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

20

Being Like I Always Wanted

21

What I’m Built For

22

Homecoming

23

I Don't Require More In The Way Of Happiness

24

Idle

25

A New Edict

26

How Will I Judge My Bravery While I Was Here

27

How to Take Oneself Seriously as an Artist

28

The Index of Everything

29

At Home in New York

30

The Gilded and The Ghostly

31

My Future Love

32

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

33

In The Meantime I'll Take Happiness

34

Victoria Falls Out My Chest

35

What My Body Knows About Rest

36

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

37

The Privilege of Worry

38

Shrieking on Descent

39

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

40

Tsunami of Lassitude

41

I am Wholly Lost Without Your Words

42

Craning for Selfies

43

Opening Day

44

Careworn

45

This Gluttony of Pleasures

46

Abscission By Ethylene

47

Rebelong Yourself Back To Your Life Again

48

Standing in the Longest Light

49

Bird of a Man

50

We Are Always Better Together

51

New Daddy

52

If a Hug Falls in the Woods

53

Last Night I Kissed a Pig

54

So I Met God The Other Day

55

Swan Dive

56

The Luxury of Silence

57

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

58

Someone Must Have Celebrated Him, But It Was Not Me

59

Despite This Coddled Architecture

60

"The Little Girl On The Bed"

61

Since I've Become More Permeable To The World

62

Pressed Flat By Possibilities

63

I'll Show You

64

I’ve Been Rubenesqued Against My Will

65

Her Shimmering Grave

66

These Things Which Must Be Done

67

This Is One Thing I Love

68

I Want To Do Everything

69

I Am Hoping For The Quality Of My Thoughts To Change

70

I Like A Horizon

71

Somewhere Between Vacation And My New Life

72

Final Goodbyes

73

That Little Bit of Dependable Routine

74

I Can Miss The Way Things Were Before

75

Church Camp

76

Narcissus on Acid

77

My Great Good Fortune

78

There Is A Grand Canyon Between Here And There

79

You Know Me Best

80

Now That I’ve Left Everything

81

Baggage Sizer

82

Everyone Knows You Need A Pair

83

Mouse in the Sink

84

All This Time It's Been You And I

85

"Chocolate Bunny"

86

The Hungry Wolf

87

Thank You Especially For Your Going

88

The Finding Of Love In Any Place

89

Concussion

90

We Are All Outsiders

91

The Altar of Water

92

Dangerously Safe

93

When The Life She Wanted Has Been Hiroshima’d

94

To Move A Thing For Real Using Something Immaterial

95

If I Can Just Get Used To Aching

96

I'd Give Everything To See It More Often

97

Everything I Thought I Knew About Myself Is Gone

98

Every Year I Think I Can Make It Without AC

99

The Love That Is Not Yet In My Life

100

Rough and Unkempt

101

The Key of Life

102

When I Saw The Lights Of My City

103

You Are Saving Lives, David & Renée

104

Yesterday I Rode The Bus

105

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

106

I Am Great At Almost Everything

107

This Disappearance Of Everything Being Too Hard

108

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

109

Ice Cream From The Dollar Store

110

Crawling Out Of A Vat Of Spaghetti

111

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

112

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

113

Men Come For Me

114

I Never Stop Coming

115

Lucky in Love

116

If You Ever Want To Talk

117

What I Know So Far About Mr Social Studies Teacher

118

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

119

This Gift From God Must Be Good For Something

120

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

121

What To Do With Myself Every Saturday

122

I'm Going to Ireland Alone

123

A Woman My Age is Not Seen Doing That

124

That Makes Me More Irish I Think

125

You Patiently Watched Me Sprout

126

My Feral Language

127

My Big Problem

128

What If I Relented and Arrived

129

I Will Officially Become Olden Bodied

130

The Cheery Lady with the Open Wound

131

The Whyte Emerald

132

The Outline of the Invisible Part of Myself

133

I Am A Play-Doh

134

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

135

Flag

136

I Will Allow It

137

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

138

Help Me Surrender My Small Ideas

139

In The Worm Bin of My Spiritual Growth

140

I Get Why Old People Get Cynical

141

This Grief Just Cracks Me Open

142

Idiopathic Love

143

Existential Feng Shui Nightmare of Epic Proportions

144

Three Swords Reversed, Five Shields, Two Cauldrons

145

How Can I Let Their Small Idea of Me Be Right

146

It Is Hard To Be a Million Pieces

147

Warm Eyes

148

I Swam To Safety

149

The Better I Get To Know Myself

150

But Then I Found I Had It

151

I Must Turn Back Toward the World

152

The Old Objects of Our Affection

153

Tiny Holes

154

Dutch Baby

155

The Empty Room Called Divorce

156

So Full of the Sadness I Thought Had Passed

157

Please Honey Stop Screaming

158

The Sum of All These Things Equals This Feeling

159

Not Today, Satan

160

Platform 9 1/2

161

Ex-Husband's Birthday

162

Old Wet Dog

163

I am Rich With a New Mind

164

Introduce Yourself

165

Inside My Vision of a Pop-Up

166

Notice You Are Not Empty-Handed

167

Unwind The Peace Spooled In Your Heart

168

The Budino I Savored

169

I Would Pay Everything To Know

170

Some Things Must Be Left in the Dark

171

Everyone is an Adorable Baby

172

Blazing Light

173

Ignore All Your To-Do’s

174

Haiku

175

Thanksgiving

176

Do I Need a Label To Exist

177

I am From Wherever Place Plays a Piccolo

178

The Healing of my Self-Hatred

179

No Time Ever Passes

180

Today I Will Go to a Muscle Man

181

Break a Leg

182

This Truth That Falls Out of Your Head

183

A Sliver’s Glimpse

184

Domestic Choreography

185

Springing Forward

186

Blessings on Bright Clear Day

187

Everything is in Perfect Order Everywhere

188

The Light That Has Not Gone Out

189

Why is Self-Love So Embarrassing

190

This Love We Have at Lincoln's

191

I Think I Should Be Elsewhere

192

Bring Your New Self Everywhere

193

Essential Self

194

Solemn Hush

195

The Dear Precious Holders of Me

196

Every Time My Week Is Empty

197

Doing Something Visible

198

As I Learn To Love Myself

199

Crawling Around At The Feet Of Others

200

Clearly I Am Wrong About Myself

201

What Remedy Am I For The World

202

Noah's Ark

203

The Salvation of Simplicity

204

Shock Proteins

205

Look at What You Do Have

206

Waiting for Rejection, Waiting for Embrace

207

How to Untie a Burden at a Distance

208

I Suppose I Don’t Need a Grand Plan

209

Drop In Pressure

210

Giving Unhoused Vibes

211

Cherry Berry Dong Dongs

212

Prayer For a New Way

213

Those People

214

Widow's Walk

215

It Saves My Gift

216

Coins in a Dirty Diaper

217

I Am Like a 12 Year Old Girl

218

Constrain to a Closer Circumference

219

Brown Rice and Water Again

220

Porpoise

221

My Padded Nest

222

I'm Full

223

My Job

224

Not Knowing Shit

225

Busy Bees

226

The Letter S

227

This Swashbuckling Poet

228

My Own Eden

229

Carpe Diem

230

Carried Away

231

We Were a Palace of Light

232

Once In A Blue Moon

233

Charlie

234

Gravity

235

The Things You Keep

236

Clematis

237

Some Friends Need Not Stand Close

238

Moving Home To Myself

239

Ice Cream Cones With Sprinkles

240

If Only I Could Get Used To Blindness

241

Packed to the Gills

242

Back to School

243

Coming Back

244

Double Life

245

My Thighs Were Not Disgusting

246

Time Outside

247

A Bigger Pond

248

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

249

Interviewing for Position of Weary Travel Companion

250

Make Peace With the Life You Find Yourself In

251

Picture Perfect Payback

252

"Rustle Up Something"

253

To Be Moved Again

254

Solstice Blessing

255

Dad's First Birthday

256

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

257

I Feel in Better Hands Than Ever

258

Gasping For Peonies

259

My Life Will Not Always Be Like This

260

A Smooth-Talking Swindler

261

Poet Lawyers

262

Circus Men

263

Come Inside

264

Remembered Belonging

265

A Softness Like Smoke

266

When You Walk Out of Your Encumberment

267

I Might Like to be That Sort of Magician

268

The Captain of my Ship Has Been Given the Brown Acid

269

If The Purpose Of Life Is Not To Save The World

270

The Mind is Good at Keeping Surprises

271

To Birth A Coup Requires A Nap After

272

Blindness to Blessedness

273

To Be Known Intimately From A Distance

274

I Feel Like a Pillowcase Full of Cats

275

Scared to See You

276

To Say Too Much About Yourself All At Once

277

Yesterday I Said Yes

278

My Mom is Like a 5 Year Old

279

None Of This Is A Real Thing

280

Poetry Is Not Depressing

281

The Fingerprint I Find Every Time

282

When You Are Not Busy

283

When You Live Alone

284

An Eye of God Looking Back on Itself

285

When The Beauty Makes Me Sad

286

Impractical Woman

287

What I Want With a Man

288

Raconteuse

289

Quiet Elliott

290

When Someone is There But Their Heart is Not

291

A Bath, a Barber, and a Sidewalk Hygentist

292

Zeus-y Lightning

293

Banter of Builders

294

To Be In A Room With Like Minds

295

No Plans

296

Sturdy Rumpley Elegance

297

Good Sleep

298

When The World Has No Fig Leaves To Cover Itself

299

Whoring Out the Prima Ballerina of the National Ballet

300

Making Deals with the Devil

301

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

302

Back in the Terrarium

303

Let’s Get Some FDIC Shit Up In Here

304

Maybe Now is a Good Time to Try Everything

305

Waiting For God To Throw My Stick

306

Like Endorphins On Tap at 7-11

307

Disoriented

308

I Want To Be A Frog In That Warm Water

309

Who Do I Think I Am?

310

I've Arrived

311

I Can't Write Poetry Like This

312

I Always Want To Be On Top

313

Me and My Guy at the Gate

314

The High in My Thighs

315

My Portland, Maine

316

Men Are Blind

317

Realizing I'm Adopted

318

Stuck in a Thicket

319

Laden With Riches

320

To Write More Words is to Make More Work

321

1000 Push-Ups

322

A Solo Captain

323

So Jolly Are We

324

Acid In My French Press

325

You Can't See Shit

326

New Year's Excitement

327

The Joy Circuits Are Jammed

328

You Haven't Left Your Family After All

329

Cynicism Check-In

330

I Value Hopeful Optimism

331

A Woman Who Still Has Eyes For Life

332

Delicate Fingers

333

I See You Are The Golden Prize

334

Plump and Poised

335

Shine Together

336

Next Level Hygge

337

I Come From Swedes

338

The Winter Was Repulsive

339

You're No Match

340

The Way Nature Cinches You Tighter Together

341

Wintress

342

The Bull of Winter

343

I Do Better The Days I Feel Pretty

344

Sleepaway Camp for Comics

345

An Incremental Deposit

346

This Little Grazing Devil

347

The Shout of Gout

348

Real Feel

349

Being One's Own Christmas Pudding

350

Take Heart Little Chicky

351

Chocolate-Covered Cherries

352

In Your Bunny Body

353

That Tiny Gesture of Generosity

354

Love Unwrapped

355

Remembering Our Bigness

356

Winter Wrestling

357

A Heaven With Pain In It

358

Crunch Time

359

To Be a Happy Passenger Instead

360

That Bold Posture of Hopefulness

361

Something You've Never Said Yourself

362

My House is a Sterile Field

363

Yin Wins

364

Now That You're Unmoored

365

Asking To Be Picked

366

In What Room I'll Belong

367

When I Get Done Being Mad

368

With Her Wildness

369

Less Will Do

370

The Sweet Gift of Julian

371

Me and a Band of Spirits

372

Slightly Stunned

373

My Own Holy Place

374

I Try To Be Out

375

Our Favorite Guy

376

The High Tea Version of a Shit Sandwich

377

Bed Pleasure

378

Drawing Inwards

379

Why I'm Pumped

380

Subpar Squat

381

See Through Fingers

382

The Ear Muffs Of Words

383

The Mercedes and the Mud Mutt

384

Sisterly Sustenance

385

This Orchestra of Kindness

386

Sabari The Charge Nurse

387

Like a Bird From His Branch

388

New Eyes To See Everything

389

The Crevasse I'm Straddling

390

My Dad's Body

391

FaceTime

392

It's A Lot To Hold

393

And So I Shit My Pants and Get Into My Boat

394

If I Could Bring Mercy Faster

395

Beer and Syrup and Truffles

396

It Only Seemed Natural

397

My Old Lady Bologna Sandwich Fund

398

I Wanna Go Deep

399

Adrian poemette

400

The Exercise of Lifting the Heart

401

Parts Counting

402

To Bring a New Vista to Her Eyes

403

That Irish Hospitality

404

The Spice of Life

405

The Quiet Invisible Despair of Becoming Yourself

406

Nothing To Keep You Warm

407

Sad But Not Devastating

408

Making My Rooms Ready

409

Today's Word is Leave

410

The Agony of Blindness

411

You Step Over It

412

The Giant Faberge Egg Under A Tarp In The Driveway

413

The Vestment of Nakedness

414

Being Fallow

415

My Heart Is Getting Off At Your Exit

416

Call Me Inside

417

Enough for the Day

418

To Live Seaside

419

Pickle Myself In Love

420

Dangerous Conversations

421

A Gorgeous Day in Fall

422

Some Weather

423

A Deer in the Headlights

424

Adults Who Can Keep Their Clothes On

425

Being Measured For Your Fitting

426

She Flanks Me

427

I Could Have a Threesome Perhaps

428

Our More Rubenesque Nature

429

The Two Kinds of Love

430

The Twitchy Ravenous Devourer

431

Miles of Stratum Corneum

432

Your Great Good Fortune

433

In The Garden with Joe

434

After Two Weeks of Feeling Repulsive

435

Basket Weavers of the Euphrates

436

The Happiest Fatigue

437

Shining For All Time

438

All I Could Ever Want

439

The Way Life Should Be

440

Please Let Him Be

441

The Art of Repose

442

These Invisible Constraints

443

A Little Spiffier

444

A Kiss in Words

445

A Nice Night Out

446

The Bone Show

447

1000 Superdomes

448

Ambient Weirdness

449

It's Not Bad Work

450

A Lucky Grab

451

Here Towards The End

452

The Attack of the Black Snake Lady

453

These Words Are Not Rubbish

454

At Least I'll Be Dancing - 5 poemettes

455

The Gift of the Fog in the Mind

456

I Do Want For Company

457

Crave It Like a Burger

458

So Much To See

459

Rugged In Their Pliableness

460

Par For The Course

461

A Poem About a Biscuit

462

Overyjoyed, Except Now

463

I'm So Good At Everything It Seems

464

Not A Lot of Action for The Naturalist

465

The Body Calls To Be Taken Out

466

Her Vehicle Needs A Break

467

It's Too Big

468

Pleasure's Attendant is Pain

469

Little Stage on the Page

470

The Hindu Goddess with the Whirling Arms

471

The Coast Is Clear

472

Modest Plenty

473

No Dark Corners To Hide In

474

How God Answers My Prayers for Money

475

What I'm Protecting You From

476

The Exhibitionism Has A Cost

477

Waking Up "Nuxy"

478

Who You Fear You'd Meet

479

Family Circle

480

The Repulsive Mood

481

That's My Girl

482

Prayer and Decluttering

483

Ready for Rebirth

484

It Can't Be Helped

485

Blanket-Fort Builder

486

Safely Comported

487

Being A Wide Receiver

488

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

489

The Right Tool For The Job

490

My Visit With Molly

491

Mom and the Assless Chaps

492

The Predictable Non-Conformist

493

The Bryonia Alba

494

All The Things Related To Dating

495

A God Given Talent

496

The Editorial Committee

497

Grateful for Paper

498

Mundane Delight

499

Journaling or Poet-ing

500

A Sunday Blessing

501

The Voice Thing

502

A Festival of Gloating

503

Craig and Classism

504

A Black Box Warning For My Readers

505

I Like Have Some Seriously Helpful Shit

506

Embarrassing Words Come Out

507

A Refill of Those Eyes

508

I'm Out of Clean Undies

509

The Juxtaposition

510

Go Outside Right Now

511

I Shout From My Heart

512

A Treasure Find

513

A Perpetual Obstacle

514

It's Like the ER in Here

515

A Gently Charged Particle

516

The Periods of Life That Are Not Total Shit

517

A Good Time in The Meantime

518

Peace is Impressive Enough

519

The Kind of Problem I'd Like To Be Facing

520

A Convo With Vlad

521

The Costume Department

522

The People Who Already Do

523

The Turtle Man

524

Hostile Peaceful Takeover

525

The Thing That Happens Without Trying

526

Ghosted by a Librarian

527

I'm Kind of a Stripper

528

Glitch in the System

529

Polar Exhibitionism

530

The Visitor Center

531

What If That Something Was Myself

532

God's Lasso

533

The Issue of the Ridiculous

534

Essential Worker

535

A Body of Flan

536

Petunia Rose Hellfire

537

The Spell is Broken

538

If He Swerves

539

The No-Tack Approach

540

She Didn't Mind Eavesdroppers

541

Maybe He Knows The Way

542

Transferrable Commodity

543

Friends In Low Places

544

You've Caught Me at a Good Time

545

I've Always Worked For Free

546

So Anemic My Heart

547

Up Here In The Attic

548

The Binoculars You've Got

549

Poetry Machine

550

How I Use My Silks

551

The Changing Room

552

There's No Unseeing That

553

How Far Past Eager

554

A Poet's Costume

555

The Solution of Another