Collection I
Rest for the Nearly Wicked
I Sleep In A Soldier Town 14
Nature As Unique 15
The Poet And The Hairdresser 16
Inches From The Meaning 17
Cities Made For War 18
What Might Make Us Beautiful 19
The Monkeys Chattered In The Den Of Death 20
Quite Near The Oldest Profession 21
Something More Akin To Religion 23
Rest For The Nearly Wicked 22
On Being Ready 24

Collection II
Chapter One: Rachel Poems

On this Planet 29
It was like a Dream 30
If God Is A Woman 31
This World 32
Bird of Mine 34
Now the Heart May Confess 36
A Garden View from a Kitchen Window 37
What it takes to be an Artist 38
Love Which Greets the Harvest 40
In Living All These Years With You 41
Devouring Your Love 42
Salvation as a Girl Child in the Wilderness 43
Of Passion and of Angels 44
Looking at the Snow 45
Among all of these cold Days and Ways 46
How I Explain My Snowy Sleepiness 48
If Only a Star Claims Your Beauty Now 49
Art as a way of Living 50
That Quiet Heart Which Listens 52
Keeping Rachel’s Warmth Alive 54
December’s Perfect Sweetheart 55
I Dream You Such a Valentine 56
Why God is really a Women 57
To Rachel 58

Chapter Two: Indie Journal Poems

While We Wait For It To Come Out 63
Jesus As Opium…God Knows 64
Wishing For This Less Than Nothing 65
Technologies of Sunday Night 67
The City Of The Hypocrites 68
The Things We Love And Kill 69
Please Unlearn This Ugly Secret 70
Magdalene Knows What Art Is 71
The Only Truth Within Your News 72
Turning Away From Our Freedom 73
The Rome Of The Church And
The Rome Of America 75
Another Point Of View 77
Winter Unto Winter 78
A Child In The Wilderness 79
Fayetteville As Medusa 80
Meaning Just Short Of Your Average Six Pack 81
Fearing That Prayers Have
Succumbed To Nicotine 82
The Woman Who Belonged on Top 84
God Gives Grace To My Trailer 86
A Faery Tale 88
Hamburgorial Eucharist 90
What The Angels Think Of My Ego 92
Thunder In A Nursery Rhyme 94
The Ennui Of The Inland Heart 95
Habits Much Like Pop Corn 96
In Our Own Preferred Morality 98
What The Devil Also Knows 100
A Victim Of Bread And Circus 101
Sin Means Being ‘Without’ 102
The Way The Dead Might Live 104
A Brief Electronic Treasure 105
The State Of The Poor And Their Religion 106
Ah Yes! Such Uncivilized Notions 108
Uber Alles 109
Knowledge Of Death As A Nightmare 110
In The Outdoor John At Rowan Park 113
If One Considers Rome And Istanbul 114
The Global Sacrament 116
Was Like Unto A Man 118
Animal Aesthetics 120
What On Earth Is The Holy Spirit? 122
The Meaning Of The Scripture 124
The Rich Boy At His Trial 125
Just As The Cynics Had Proclaimed 126
Another Modern Hero 127
A Thousand Stupid Answers 128
The Right To Do As You Choose 129
The Idea Of Girl Child Among The Elders 130
What We Did To Fools Like Jesus 132
Oh Brothers And Sisters Of Freedom 134
The Charity In The Woman’s Heart 136
Painting The Pig In Miami 138
William Is The Word He Made 140
Underneath The Factory Surface;
The Rise And Fall Of The Iron Dildo 142
Sacraments Of America 143