Poetry

Table of Contents

Cartographies in Despair
Countries of the Moon
Grotesque Tales
Postcards from Paris
The Language of Trees
The Visitor from Kazoo
Time Traveler’s Journal

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Cartographies of Despair

There is a poetry of Witness and Mourning that has been a part of human history from the beginning. Here I will honor the living and the dead memories of people of the earth who cannot defend themselves against the atrocity of the inhuman agents of evil in our world.

1. The Dying Earth
2. The Dark Queen of Elves
3. The Banshee
4. The Nightmare Lands
5. Siren Alectronica
6. Remembering Steven Sotloff
7. The Living Children Are Buried Now
8. A Witness to Gaza
9. Boxes & Mysteries
10. After Virgil: A Lucretian Meditation
11. The Dweller in the Sphere
12. Death is not a Word
13. Columbus Meets the Arawak On Judgment Day
14. End of the American Dream?
15. The Art of Solitude
16. A Death Song for Her Child
17. Tribute in Light
18. A Coward’s Past Betrayal
19. Is Peace a Myth?
20. Inside A Hollow Mind
21. Visiting the American Ruins
22. Clueless in New York City
23. Old-Timer’s in Hell
24. A Leaf in a Windy World
25. Troubling the Waters
26. Where Do We Come From

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Countries of the Moon

1. Countries of the Moon
2. Possibility
3. Sea-drifts: A Vision
4. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
5. Cassandra
6. An Eye So Wild & Free
7. The Lover’s Touch
8. For My Bard, Walt
9. Reckless Nights and Days
10. Old Men Sing The Delta Blues: Two Songs
11. Dog Day Afternoons of Crime
12. Honky Tonk Dreamer
13. What Poet’s Say and Do
14. Cowboy Blues
15. Being Vulnerable
16. 350 Wolverine
17. White Raven Dreams of Love
18. Fatal Strategies
19. “One day I must go to Pieria…”
20. Song Weaver
21. Last Cup of Cinnamon Tea
22. When We Were Young
23. The Indebted Man
24. Just Another Corporate Potlatch Festival
25. Hawks & Love
26. Cloud Dancer
27. White Doves
28. “A Raven in her mind…”
29. Where Have All The Maker’s Gone
30. Old Woman in the Alcove
31. The Lynx’s Eye: After Petrarch
32. Chameolen Dreams
33. Reaumur’s Gaze
34. Between the thought and thing…
35. Savanna Winds
36. Ruins
37. Stone
38. Vigilance
39. Savanna Winds
40. A Hole in the World
41. The Void: After Lucretius
42. Stone Bouncing Laughter
43. Night of the Earth
44. Bird of Paradise – A Haiku
45. The Moon: After Leopardi
46. In Defense of War Poetry
47. The green life of his art…
48. Synthetic Dreams
49. Cost of Awareness
50. Cities of the Plain
51. Hauntology
52. What does the eye see?
53. the girl in the red sneakers
54. A Living Thing
55. Tangerine Days
56. The Gift
57. The Lover’s Pact
58. Open the Dark
59. Relations
60. Mandolin Lady
61. Leavetaking
62. The Journey
63. The Pretty Hat Seller, Old
64. Framing The Emptiness of Light
65. Something Young And Beautiful
66. The Lute Player (Caravaggio) – A Prose Proem
67. White Light
68. A Thousand Emerald Eyes
69. Sweet River Waters
70. I Came to the Sea

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Grotesque Poems & Tales

Welcome to the menagerie where all the evil in its most Grotesque and Macabre forms shall suddenly drip out of its slime world into your mind. Don’t worry too much about it, you’ll be alright, the nightmares, ghosts, vampires, and swamp monsters want hurt you too much. Drunks, killers, cannibals, legends of the dark places all hide out here so watch your step as you go down into the pit else something strange and eerie will attempt to take you with it.

Tales Grotesque and Macabre

1. Grumpus Buglish and the Turning
2. Interview, Silver City News: William H. Bonney

Poems of the Grotesque & Macabre

1. The Mask of Death
2. Scorpion Thoughts
3. Night Visitants
4. Memories & Ghosts
5. Midnight Carnival of Tears
6. Doubt The Butcher Came Today
7. The Taming of the Minotaur
8. “My duende, come for me!”
9. Oh Hi There Glad You Could Come
10. Crimes of the Heart: A Tale of Noir
11. The Disquieting Truth
12. Zeno’s Parodoxes Explained As Rest or Motion
13. Did You See My Brain?
14. The Hoodoo Man
15. Table Rumors
16. News from the Zombie Wars: A Grotesque Tale
17. The Blue Devil in a Time Machine
18. The Boogeyman’s Coming
19. Miss Kitty’s Dinner Surprise
20. The Black Prince (Satire)
21. All Father’s Live in Death
22. Mr. Henry Tilbane IV
23. Old Mrs. Crotchety McGillis
24. Did You See My Brain?
25. What Drink Will Do And Say
26. The Suicide
27. Sleep Will Not Come
28. Summer’s Queen
29. Winter’s Queen
30. Big Daddy Taught Me A Secret
31. Last Stop For A Traveling Salesman
32. His Familiar’s Back In Town
33. Fall and Fade: A Tale of Roses
34. The Tick-Tock Man
35. Sand and the Devil
36. The Masque of Misrule
37. A Night’s Grotesquerie
38. Love’s Cenobite
39. Ghosts Hide In Our Neglect
40. Insomniac Nights
41. A Crack in Blackness
42. Devils & Roses
43. An Emptiness Upon a Hill
44. City of Bones
45. Love’s Wounds
46. Night of Stones
47. The Marriage Bells That Didn’t
48. A Voice of Sorrow in the Night
49. INSANITY
50. A Hundred Years of Death
51. A Short Treatise on Ugliness
52. Wings, Whiskey and Babes
53. Is There a Doctor in the House?
54. The Neck Job
55. Our Rollercoaster Is Ready My Dear
56. The Puppet on a Poem: Tales of Influence Anxiety
57. In 1981
58. Cities of Ghosts
59. The Preacher Man (Southern Comic Grotesque)
60. The “Genius” Helmet
61. The Accident
62. Age-Work: A Review
63. A Wriggle & Ball of Death
64. The Toreadors of the West
65. Conversations & Silence
66. A Truth Between Death & Dying
67. Wastelands & Voices
68. Grief & Mourning
69. What is your bloody secret?
70. iNeedALife
71. Home is a State of Mind
72. Shall We Sing of Slime
73. Decisions & Revisions
74. Love’s Bankruptcy
75. Mad Song
76. The Mad King Rides Again

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Postcards from paris

1. The Uranian Globe
2. Postcard from Paris
3. The Languor’s of Love
4. A Fool’s Wisdom
5. A Short History of Love
6. The Devil’s Walkngstick
7. The Door in the Stars
8. Mr. Anonymous
9. Complaints & Questions
10. She is my Seamtress
11. Sea Dreams & Houses
12. Like a Jazzman Does
13. A Mind of Light & Darkness
14. Dark Whispers
15. 911 Help on its way?
16. On Reading the Best American Poetry
17. A Lover’s War Is Humming
18. Women Need Love Too
19. Southern Nights
20. Rainbow Days in Oregon
21. Tornados & Dragons
22. The Obscenity of Things
23. The Staging of Innocence
24. To Mom from your Daughters
25. Posmodern Ennui
26. Faceless on Facebook
27. Simon Magus and Helen
28. Earth Song, An Elegy
29. Achilles Curse
30. A Lover’s Complaint
31. When The Green Night Sleeps
32. A Comic Book Hero For My Daughter
33. We Return You to Your Local Channel
34. A Minor Apocalypse
35. Mythologies of Light
36. “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
37. A Woman Walks by the Sea
38. A Viral Argument Against Stupidity
39. The Sorrowing Flute
40. Over The Green Hedge
41. The Circuitry of Love and Sorrow
42. The Medusa: After Caravaggio
43. The Fallen One
44. Black Candles
45. My Vacation to the Stone Hotel
46. Just Another Lost Joke Looking For A Drink
47. Love Spurned by Lack of Touch & Feeling
48. The Smile is Still There
49. Transfiguration
50. Ironwood
51. Lazy Afternoons & Mint Juleps
52. The Crayon Tao
53. Pastel Days & a Muse’s Laughter
54. Two Lovers
55. The Languor’s of Love
56. Country Love
57. An Affinity for Flying Things
58. Objects & Love
59. The Art of Names
60. She’s gone, my love is gone
61. Winter’s Lover

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The Language of Trees

Robert Graves is the author of over one hundred books, besides a number of anonymous rewrite jobs for friends. His most important prose work is The White Goddess, a history of poetic myth—“the language of poetic myth . . . was a magical language bound up with popular religious ceremonies in honor of the Moon goddess, or Muse . . . and this remains the language of true poetry—‘true’ in the nostalgic modern sense of the ‘unimprovable original, not a synthetic substitute’”. The true poet worships the White Goddess, or goddess of creation; unswerving and absolute devotion to her is the poet’s only path. He “falls in love, absolutely, and his true love is for him the embodiment of the Muse.”

The Language of the Trees

• The Art of Trees
• The Lover’s Touch
• Ironwood
• A Dirge for the Elders
• A Witches’ Brew
• The Devil’s Walkingstick
• Paw Paw
• Keeper of the Flame

A Modern Herbal

• Masterwort (Angelica)
• The Nobel Lady (Bay Laurel)

Seasonal Poems: Birds, Animals, and Myths

• The Desert Birds of Fall
• A Death Song for Her Child
• After Rain, Comes Balance & New Life
• Can you help me, Mr. Poet?

Deep Songs of Earth

• Where did the Grandmothers go?
• Love’s Knot and Fire
• Charms Against the Future
• Nights Among The Windy Stars
• Shall We Sing of Slime
• One Who Will Come
• The Poet’s Creed
• A Time to Stop and Be
• Auguries of Love & Sleep
• Riddle Me A Riddle
• Listening to the Nothing
• A Language All Their Own
• The Substance of Things Hoped For
• Death in the City

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The Visitor from Kazoo

1. The Visitor from Kazoo
2. Curiosity & Angels
3. Do You See The Little Angels In The Sky
4. The Book of Imaginary Travels
5. The Book of Dead Things
6. On Reading A Tale of Wonder
7. The Green Beast Quick As Night
8. I Contemplate the Mugwu Tonki
9. The Great Wizard of the Goblins
10. At The Black Gate of Zag
11. The Boga in the Tree

Stories & Oddities

1. Grumpus Buglish and the Turning
2. A Hippo from Aleppo
3. Mrs. Snipe Goes Hunting
4. Mrs. Marble and Dr. McCool
5. Mr. Henry Tilbane IV
6. Old Mrs. Crotchety McGillis
7. Happiness Is?
8. White Wolf Clan Sings of Wolf Woman
9. Circle and Flame
10. Aladdin and his Genii
11. Humpty is a Rumpy Dumpty Man

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Time Traveler’s Journal

When one hasn’t had a good father, it is necessary to invent one. – Fredrick Nietzsche

Time Traveler’s Journal (Series Poem)

1. Time Traveler’s Journal: Entry #1
2. Time Traveler’s Journal: Entry #31
3. Time Traveler’s Journal: Entry #55
4. Time Traveler’s Journal: Entry #83
5. Time Traveler’s Journal: Entry #132
6. Time Traveler’s Journal: Entry #179
7. Time Traveler’s Journal: Entry #201
8. Time Traveler’s Journal: Entry #241

& Other Poems

1. Calligraphy of Time
2. Decisions & Revisions
3. Cold Mountain
4. The Enchantment
5. To Say The World
6. House of Light
7. Love’s Tower
8. The Myth of Objects
9. He is Sleeping Now
10. The Journey of Poetry
11. The Ordinary is Beautiful
12. “Duende” – After Lorca
13. Scorn of Pastoral
14. Poet Manqué
15. On Reading Petrarch’s ‘Secretum’
16. The Hoodoo Man
17. Words
18. The Hunt
19. Robot Fables
20. The Immortalist
21. Portrait of a Metal Angel
22. My Son the Robot
23. Dawn of Aotearoa
24. The Curse of Gaia
25. Providence
26. A Dirge for the Elders
27. Potato Rock
28. Ironwood
29. Southern Hospitality
30. Sweet River Waters
31. The Heresy of Light
32. Home is a State of Mind
33. Dawn’s Early Rising
34. After Virgil: A Lucretian Meditation
35. The Fury’s Madness
36. A Siren’s Song
37. The Voices and the Silence
38. Two Fair Things in the World
39. A Glimpse of Possibility

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