A Letter to a Muse
Part I, Originals

Preface
12th Symphony of an August Night
6:30 scene, October 21, 2002, the hawk and mask of night (moment poem #1)
A Conversation with Fate
A Poet's Purpose
A Royal Funeral
A Writer‘s High
After All
aisle squater
All by Myself
all the same
allure
Amalgamation
angels and butterflies
August 2002 (the funky pink blues)
autumn looming
Bang! Bang! Bang!
beyond principle
Breathing Inferno
brothers
Caesar Never Knew August This Way
Calling the Bluff a Spade
contradict me
Crimson Divine
dance of denial
despoiling vanity
dying alive
enduring simplicity
EXCITING
falling grace
fate‘s deliberation
going somewhere
good news (nightmare)
happy worms
Herald! August 23 is here (I knew)
Love, American Haiku
How Heavy His Somolence Is
I can wait
Ill Inclination
I Rather Be A Peasant
I Remember
Independence
inside
Introspection
It’s just ice
learning
Let This Be, A Day of Remembrance
Libido
My Life Poetic
like it or not, I love
Living Room
Luninescence
Make Believe
Mud of Boys to Men
music lessons (for my boys)
My Infant Sun
My Iris Germanica
My penny loafer man
Nouveau Bohemian (2002)
Now and Then
oh, boy
only
pan (dilemma III)
ode to poem
poetic pollution
poof and bob
Pop! Music (shoobie-doobie doo wop)
Radiant Blue
Rambling Hubris and Crackers
resolutions
Rumors of Rebellion.
scintillating scansion
seco
Sestina
she let it go
simple
Snake in the Ass
Solitude
Splendor
Stately Coping
Sweeping in Undulate Rhyme
Symposium
TESTOSTERONE
The Ballad of Buck Wild Brady
The Bell Tells
The Big O
the change game
The Dilemmas
(The) Dilemma II
the elixir and everything (the be-all, cure-all poem)
the kaleidoscope of human me
the magnificent magnoliaceae
the middle of my canicas (the many splendored fingers of our time)
the neighborhood watch
the soothing rush
The Street
The Ultimate Elixir
The Vulnerable I (The Teetering Empire)
the wedding knell
the world less brighter
the write time
there is a tomorrow
These Moments
this alien life
Tradition! (sedition)
Tunnelphobia
until now
vapor
washing the hours go by
weary
what don't won't do
yearning, estranged intimacy

Part II, Parities and Parodies