Us Creative Types
Vegetarian Stands by the Meat Sale
This poem was nominated in the Partial Nudity 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize
Vengeful Phone (twitter-length poem)
Worth Something
Y Chromosome Missing
Yeah, the Passion
You Moved from Island to Island
Zach Makes Me Think About These Things (twitter-length poem)
Zinc (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Zirconium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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2013 poetry
Actinium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Aluminum {April Fool’s Edit} (an edited poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Aluminum? Aluminium? Aluminum? (a bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Antimony (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Astatine (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Astatine in a Fantastic Car Crash (a bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Beauty in the Eyes of Einsteinium (a bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Bismuth (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Boron from the Big Bang (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Bromine (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Cadmium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Californium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Cerium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Cesium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Curium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Darmstadtium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Dilithium (a bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
DNA and Carbon, in Asteroids (oh my) (a bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Dreams 2/20/04 two, for Charlie Trotter 11/5/13
Each Half is the Enemy
Europium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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even if the pope claims it (twitter-length poem)
explaining what condoms are for (twitter-length poem)
Eyes are Blurred to the Battlefield
Fermium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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filed under fiction (twitter-length poem)
Flerovium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
Flying to China (twitter-length poem)
Foreign Farmer (twitter-length poem)
from Hydrogen to Nothing (a bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Gadolinium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Gallium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Gold (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Holmium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Hydrogen Cyanide (a bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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This poem was nominated in the Periodic Table of Poetry 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize
Indium (a bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Iodine (a bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Iron in my Eyes (a bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Jumping from the Skyline to the Clouds
Just Cave In
knew what he was talking about
Lawrencium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation)
Lost my Breath (twitter-length poem)
Manganese (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Mendelevium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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middle eastern man in front of me
Molybdenum (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Neodymium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
Niobium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
Nitrogen in my veins (bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
Objectifiable (twitter-length poem)
Okay, it’s all about the Oxygen (bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Oklahoma water-surfing (twitter-length poem)
Old Star, New elemental Tricks (bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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One Summer Traveled
Only Searching
Our Lady of Mercy (twitter-length poem)
Out Of Place (Dreams 12/3/13)
Polonium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Praseodymium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Radium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Rhodium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Roentgenium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
Rubidium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Ruthenium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Samarium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Scandium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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shoe prints on the toilet seat (twitter-length poem)
Smelling Sulphur on Nine One One (bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Strontium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Tantalum (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Technetium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Tellurium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Terbium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Thulium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Tin (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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This poem was nominated in the Periodic Table of Poetry 2014 release for the Pushcart Prize
Titanium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Touching Cobalt (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Tritium (bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Ugly babies need the most love (twitter-length poem)
unclean left hands
Under Constant Supervision
until the next truck comes (twitter-length poem)
Ununtrium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Vanadium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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White Phosphorus (bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetryy” series)
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Xenon (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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You Can’t Tell (twitter-length poem)
Ytterbium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Yttrium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
2014 poetry
addiction (haiku, on twitter)
Ants and Crosses (haiku, on twitter)
Arsenic and Syphilis (bonus haiku from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series, on twitter)
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barbed (haiku, on twitter)
bear
(haiku, on twitter)
behind (haiku, on twitter)
Berkelium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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blood (haiku, on twitter)
Bohrium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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bruised (haiku, on twitter)
This poem was nominated in the 100 Haikus 2014 press release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize
cage (haiku, on twitter)
can’t get you (haiku, on twitter)
census (haiku, on twitter)
choke (haiku, on twitter)
This poem was nominated in the 100 Haikus 2014 press release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize
civil (haiku, on twitter)
clogged (haiku, on twitter)
close (haiku, on twitter)
coincidence? (haiku, on twitter)
console (haiku, on twitter)
defenses (haiku, on twitter)
Depth of Field
destroy (haiku, on twitter)
Diburnium (bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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difference (haiku, on twitter)
Dubnium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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easy (haiku, on twitter)
eight ball answers all (performance art for 10/7/14 Chicago improvisation show)
Eight to Sixteen
elusive (haiku, on twitter)
end (haiku, on twitter)
ends (haiku, on twitter)
enemies (haiku, on twitter)
energy (haiku, on twitter)
Erbium (poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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errors (haiku, on twitter)
escape (haiku, on twitter)
everyone (haiku, on twitter)
eventually (haiku, on twitter)
evil (haiku, on twitter)
existence (haiku, on twitter)
explosions (haiku with bonus line, on twitter)
This poem was nominated in the 100 Haikus 2014 press release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize
extinct (haiku, on twitter)
fader, his mädchen and the Führer
faith (haiku, on twitter)
falling (haiku, on twitter)
feel (haiku, on twitter)
fit (haiku, on twitter)
floor (haiku, on twitter)
fog (haiku, on twitter)
force (haiku, on twitter)
forever (haiku, on twitter)
form (haiku, on twitter)
fought (haiku, on twitter)
found (haiku, on twitter)
found haiku (haiku, on twitter)
free (haiku, on twitter)
G Block (bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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gone (haiku, on twitter)
greatest (haiku, on twitter)
groove (haiku, on twitter)
guide (haiku, on twitter)
Hafnium (poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Hassium (poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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heaviness (haiku, on twitter)
hold (haiku, on twitter)
holding hands (expanded, extreme sestina variation)
humans (haiku, on twitter)
instead (haiku, on twitter)
I started writing this poem when
jabbed into an open nerve
“Jimbo” (haiku, on twitter)
job (haiku, on twitter)
jobless (haiku, on twitter)
John’s Mind (haiku, on twitter)
judge (haiku, on twitter)
jumped (haiku, on twitter)
junk
JY asks (a two haiku twitter-length poem)
keep (haiku, on twitter)
Keeping a Record of Going Too Far (audition performance of a 2-poem adaptation)
This poem was nominated in the Revealed 2014 release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize
key (haiku, on twitter)
kids wielding freedom and sin
kill (haiku, on twitter)
kindness (haiku, on twitter)
knees (haiku, on twitter)
knife (haiku, on twitter)
know (haiku, on twitter)
This poem was nominated in the 100 Haikus 2014 press release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize
knowing (haiku, on twitter)
labor (haiku, on twitter)
Lanthanum (poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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last (haiku, on twitter)
life (haiku, on twitter)
Lord Have Mercy
lost (haiku, on twitter)
love (haiku, on twitter)
Meitnerium (poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
This poem was nominated in the Periodic Table of Poetry 2014 release for the Pushcart Prize
mirror (haiku, on twitter)
misogyny (haiku, on twitter)
mister (haiku, on twitter)
much (haiku, on twitter)
My brain was
need (haiku, on twitter)
nightmares (haiku, on twitter)
Observing Theories of the Universe
octopi and brains (haiku, on twitter)
octopi and dogs (haiku, on twitter)
of his thirst (haiku, on twitter)
oil (haiku, on twitter)
on Witnessing the Icy Graveyard (twitter-length poem)
only (haiku, on twitter)
on the back of a touring bike
opening (haiku, on twitter)
organs (haiku, on twitter)
ourselves (haiku, on twitter)
out (haiku, on twitter)
outsourcing the American dream 2014 edit
out there (haiku, on twitter)
over (haiku, on twitter)
pant (haiku, on twitter)
pet (haiku, on twitter)
Pleading (haiku, on twitter)
Pleiades
Potassium Chloride (bonus haiku from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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predator (haiku, on twitter)
progress (haiku, on twitter)
Protactinium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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Questioning Atoms through Inference (bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
Questioning Religion, Father and Son
Red Phosphorus (bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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relegated (haiku, on twitter)
rescue (haiku, on twitter)
Rhenium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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run (haiku, on twitter)
Rutherfordium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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scorches (haiku, on twitter)
Seaborgium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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sort (haiku, on twitter)
stagger (haiku, on twitter)
Star Trek, Star Wars and Storm Troopers
sting (haiku, on twitter)
strike (haiku, on twitter)
study (haiku, on twitter)
Thallium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
this is only a test (haiku, on twitter)
Thorium (from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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timing (haiku, on twitter)
Translation (2014 haiku) (haiku, on twitter)
universe (haiku, on twitter)
upturn (haiku, on twitter)
This poem was nominated in the 100 Haikus 2014 press release for the (40 year) Pushcart Prize
Value from Nothingness (a two-tweet poem)
violent affair
years (haiku, on twitter)
you (haiku, on twitter)
2015 poetry
Bases Loaded
Before Taking Over the Controls (2015 edit)
bored the night before 9/11 (a twitter-length poem)
Change (2015 edit)
choice (haiku, on twitter)
cover (haiku, on twitter)
don’t (haiku, on twitter)
drowning (haiku, on twitter)
each of you carry one body each
Earth is a Topiary
eating slices of white bread
electricity
electromagnetism
Empty Chocolate Counter
entering courtroom 101
Entering the Lake of Fire
entire town’s baseball team
Eugene’s limit
Evaluation
even got to first base
ever leave me
extend (haiku, on twitter)
extinct, like the dodo
extinct on planet earth
eyes
final rally 2015 edit
Full Stop
Fuming in the Morning
grandmother charged with murder (2015 edit)
imprisoned / ignorance (haiku, on twitter)
It Hurts in the Bones 2015 edit
jihadists and astrophysics
jog hurt
Just Desperation
just you
kinds of interference
Koi Ponds and Concrete
Lucille Ann
(haiku, on twitter)
melted marshmallow (2015 edit)
new to chicago (2015 baseball edition)
Nitrium (bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
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of independence or freedom
old school and high-tech monuments
one and six
one oh one destruction instructions: a man calls a woman
one oh two destruction instructions: self-destructive
one oh three destruction instructions: run faster
one twenty fifteen destruction instructions: on destroying a relationship
one twenty fifteen destruction instructions: use drones to kill
one, two, three strikes you’re out
only option is fighting
only philosophy
Open Book
operation diligence
Other Souls
Outer Space and the Sound of Silence
oxygen to flame the fire
PDQ in Tin Foil (2015 edit)
poor (haiku, on twitter)
Quoting twitter with a found haiku (haiku, on twitter)
red matter
Reduced To Now
Shared Air
Somebody’s Scoring Somewhere
Story Telling (part one)
Story Telling (the end)
the Messenger 2015 edit
Time, Time, Time, See What’s Become of Me
uncuffed
uncuffed and printed
Under his Bed
unique noise
unless (haiku, on twitter)
unless it happens to you
unmarried women and dead bodies everywhere
untitled 6/11/15 (two-tweet poem)
Utopia Planitia, Titan and the Kuiper Belt
Vent
Visakhapatnam (haiku, on twitter)
X-rays and broken hearts
Young Dreams from a Potential Legend
2016 poetry
a Great American (2016 edit)
brewery (haiku, on twitter)
Earth was Crying
Escaping rapeugees
everything is my home
Everything was Alive and Dying (2016 political edit)
ex boyfriends became goldfish
Excuses for Skipping Work
exhaling toxic fumes
Jumping from the Mausoleum
just to be on the safe side
Juxtaposition, or Irony?
keep flying into death
Kinds of Torture
knowing and lurking for eons
Life got in the Way
newspaper ink’s the blood of a dying species
Oh, She Was a Woman
On Becoming a Woman
One who Has Too Much
Orders
or my happiness, or my life
Pluto, Plutonium & Death (bonus poem from the “Periodic Table of Poetry” series)
QLG 647
Questions and Tension
Quibbling over Religion
Quieted Soul
Step
The State of the Nation (2016 edit)
True Happiness in the New Millennium (2016 edit)
Understanding what’s Crazy
Vanishing Scars
Viewing the Woman in a 19
th Century Photograph
Violence There
Visions were Justified
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These poems are unedited and written in a journalistic style, and some are very long. These pieces were written shortly after a debilitating accident, changing the author’s attitudes and views about her surroundings.