if not human

contents

prologue

ACT I - poems

1. what began
2. secular
3. untitled (6-7-23)
4. goodnight, my vietnam
5. tomorrow's eyes
6. to catch a rainbow
7. all around
8. untitled (3/5)
9. december 4th
10. heavenly celestial
11. the disposition
12. as the poet weeps
13. flowers at the wake
14. a note before i leave
15. tell me i'm pretty
16. the missing piece
17. your ranconteur
18. girl that you love
19. somebody
20. i hollowed out my piano for you
21. in god's own image
22. we are forever until tomorrow
23. we walked the beach to see ourselves
24. sweet songs
25. untitled 2/27
26. medicating carcasses
27. parked in a hot car
28. untitled 7/6
29. ash
30. plain view
31. at/ten/tion
32. january eighteenth
33. what we can't see
34. the marching bands of the ivory coast
35. homicide
36. digital sex
37. impressions of the fluorescent
38. pure electra
39. modern lover
40. something about airplanes
41. underwater pressure
42. too soon
43. diatribe
44. confessions of an artist
45. romantics and roles
46. the message we need today
47. a foreigner
48. cherry flavoured
49. best buds
50. upon the march
51. untitled 39
52. alex
53. doves over dublin
54. cherry conversations
55. diet coke
56. clouds in your eyes
57. sewanee
58. to you, i'm just a ghost
59. belladonna in the infinite dream
60. water on the edge
61. the sound is silent
62. untitled 3/3
63. untitled love song
64. two years
65. i wish there was room in this bed
66. orange juice - love song
67. entry to exit
68. stones for jasper
69. an open letter to the boys and girls i love
70. there upon the pond
71. words abt myself
72. tomorrow, we are
73. empire of the sun
74. a book on marx
75. hope
76. untitled 89
77. spindled limbs / poem 91
78. is this it?
79. unreal // unearth
80. a lesson
81. untitled 81
82. heavenly celestial
83. a painting of the mausoleum on fire
84. goodbye
85. song for leila
86. compare
87. freedom
88. rhymes - rhymes
89. i think too often...
90. alexis
91. younger
92. nation of you
93. exist!
94. marmalade
95. here an now
96. is this it? (part two)
97. hold me like water
98. make it right
99. busy listening
100. iscariot
101. TEETH
102. the light of a fume
103. souls within
104. LEDA
105. poems about ghosts and you
106. burning tongues
107. November glow
108. untitled words about humans
109. INTERMISSION
110. Lazarus

epilogue