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POETRY

50th Anniversary of Dorothy & Anthony Desimone
9/11/2001
A Day at Work
A thousand kisses in Palmer Square
Album Release
Animal Husbandry
Another shower
Anthony and Harriet
Aquarius
As we fell asleep
At 40
Attar
Bacchante at 35
Backbay Station
Beaujolais
Before is is was
Brioche: Visit with Betty Rose and Ray
Bubbe meisseh
But I need the eggs
Can it last past the flash of fire
Candy
Cat
Charlie's Back (despite the cigars)
Charlie's Back (despite the scars)
Chelsea Morning
Chess is a game where partners in play are called opponents
Children and art
Christ said "God is not the god of the dead, but of the living"
Cocaine
Courting Justice
Cramps
Crossroads and Cloverleafs
DRIPs
Dancing at the Old Bay while the VooDudes play
Dated 6/19/67 "To my young Edna St. Vincent Millay" signed T.F.
Death Teaches
Decoupage
Desimones
Dining out
Divining
Divorce
Dracula
Edinburgh
Encounter
Escaping the undertow
FInding the way to names
Foolish pleasure
Good news is relative
Gray and Green
Hands
Hatikvah (The Hope)
He hears me when we sleep
Henny Penny
Hoboken
I carry you with me
I see you
I thought it was fertile
I wish
I'm Not Moving Across the River
If there were no Alexander Graham Bell
Intensive care
Jack Schwarz
Jersey juice
Katherine Parr
Kiss me again
Kissing Ground
Laura at 10
Letter from Lauderdale
Letter to a young poet
Little bob borrows sugar
Living Room
Love Birds
Lovers
MLK Day
Martin
Metuchen
Midlife
Mishpokhe
Monogamy
More medicine
Movement
Movers
Music lover
Mutable
My seed or yours
Natchez Traces
Neighborhood
Never loved
No news blues
October 2001 in New Jersey
Oh You Corporate Dogs Grrrr(ow)l
Pancho (Kaddish for Ann Schwartz)
Penises are even more overrated than Allen Ginsberg
Pieces to/for/from a relationship
Poem Written While Feeling Strong and Sane
Proof positive
Regeneration
Scarletts Song
Science makes another amazing discovery
Semen is not salty
Sentimentality
Shana Yardena
She was having a bad day
Shirls the girl
Shucking Oysters
Solving Equations
Some say Janet is a bitch
Someone Is Singing: A Poem for Metuchen’s Centennial
Steel Pier
Subway ride
Table Settings
Tell-Tale Hearts (or Edgar Allen eat yours out)
The Chores
The Falcon & the Phoenix
The Last Supper/The First Seder
The goose thinks of gandering
The grown girls' jumprope song
The invisible women
The man in my bed
The nightshade that makes love apples
The perfume of you made the days pass with pleasure
The right tools
The wind fails and your kite crashes
This is just to say why she did not wax poetic
Those three little words
Time's conscience
To Joe from Pelham
To an absent friend
Too many feet for iambic pentameter
Travel Institute
Tua famiglia
Two Jews
Unfinished
Union
Unrecorded Statistics
VDT
Vezi Moon
Victims
Vision
Volcanic
Waikaloa Crosstalk
Waikoloa Kitchen
Warm waters​
Wave
We were all there; where were you
What I Think Before I Perform
What is jazz
What lingers
What measures success
When you make something of yourself
When you read this poem out loud someone will call you an ugly bitter bitch
Why I stay in bed Saturday mornings
Without Anesthetic
Woodstock
Worn out
You're not out of love until you're out of tears
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