Michael Fraley
Poem-O-Rama
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The Poet and His Muse, Circa 1967-1972
Contents
A B C D
E F G H
I J K L
M N O P
Q R S T
U V W X
Y Z
The Advantages of Inexperience
After the Fall
Aftermath
All in One Morning
All the Day's Work
All Those Who Foster Lies
Almost Two
Alternative Umbrellas
Ambiguity
Animated Shapes
Annunciation
Another War
Another Way of Reaching Completion
Approximate Eden
The Arrangement
As Soon As I Can
Ashley's Exit
At Ease
At Our Leisure
At the Bakery
At the Crossing
The Athenian
Attention, Trees!
Avocado Hill
The Babies Are in Bloom Again
The Ballad of Monday Jack
Banter
Barred Clouds
Be Not Afraid
Beauty Is Not a By-Product
Before the Beginning
Beginnings
Bells and Birds
Beside the Sea
The Best Defence
Big Slide
Bigger Than
Bird
Black Panther
Blue Room
Boomerang
Brim
Brothers of a Kind
The Calendar and the Hive
A Cautionary Tale
Chalcedony Stone
Change of Plans
Changeable Desires
Changes
A Change in the Weather
Child's Play
A Choice to be Made
The Christmas Spirit
The City that Speaks for Itself
Clouds
Code of Conduct
A Collection of Dreams
The Collective Life of the Birds
Colleen, On Her Eleventh Day
The Coming Birth
Company
The Concept of Chess
Concrete Ambitions
The Conversation of Trees
The Corrupt Ones
Cosmology Among the Young
Crooked Man
Crossing the Hellespont
Crow
The Cry
Cul de Sac
Cult of the She-Camel
Cultivated Ignorance
Currents
Customary Grace
The Dancing Funambulist
Dandelion Country
A Dangerous Man
The Dark Pool and the Bright Stars
Day at the Beach
The Dead
The Decline
A Delicate Balance
Despicable
Diana
De Dignitate Hominis
Diminished by Our Differences
The Doldrums
Double Nature
Dreaming of Mountains
Dry Dock
The Earth and All Its Flowers
E. 14th St.
8 A.M.
Elemental
An Elephant Goddess
Emissary from Above
Emotional Voyeur
Empty Lot
Encounter with a Tapir
Enough and More
Essence of the Beast
Estate Sale
Faith is More
The Fence
Field of Reeds
Find Me a Willow
Fine and Hammering
Fine Kentucky Wine
First-Born
Fish Scales and Coarse Fingernails
Flying to New Jersey
For the Living
For Those Not Whole
The Forests Are Blazing
Fortunate
Fortune's Favour
47 Knots
Four Days in the Country
Free and Strong
Fresh
From the Land of Frozen Lakes
Fulfilment
Full House
Gentle Drift
Gift
God Is Watching
Gone Are the Long Goodbyes
The Good
Graduation Day
A Grandstand View Describes the Scenery
Grave Souls
Gravity in White
The Green Vinyl, Chrome-Trimmed Stool
Grey Shellac
Groundwork for a Coronation of the Soul
Growing Up
Guidelines
Gullible Crown
Habits Wear Away at Her
Halfway to the Hills
Harley Takes Flight
The Heart that Knows No Bounds
Heavenly Greeting
Her Garden
Hey, Woody!
Hidden Knowledge
Holiday
A Home for Hope
Homecoming
Hope
Hour by Hour
How Far
How the Sun
Hunter
I Once Knew a Man
I Was Crying Because I Had a Dream
Ilsa
In a Desert Land
In Memory of Miss Kitty
The Indigo Man
Infinite Numbers
Inland
Interlude
Islands
It Comes and Goes
Ivory Tusks
Jane's Vacation
Janice and Gerald
Japanese Tea Garden
Jarvis
The Jester
Jesus Revisited
The Jolly Wreath
Joseph the Journeyman
Journeys Begin
Jumping Frog Jeff
The King Sleeps
Kingdom Come
Kinsmen
Known, Yet Ever New
The Land I Long For
The Lark Ascending
Laughter
Laundry Day
Laura the Nut
Learning to Wait
The Lesson of the Mourning Dove
Letters from a Troll
Letting Go
A Life's Work
A Life of Little Import
Lightsong
Like Osiris
Like Riding a Bike
Living Art
Looking at Myself
Looking Back
Lost My Sparkle
The Lost Ones
Love Is a Wild Wind
Lucky Cecily
Lunch with Tino
Mannerly Tree
Many Live on Payments Less Grand
Marriage of the Fantods
Martian Zoological Gardens
The Mathemagician's Wand
Meant for More
The Medicament of Sleep
Message from a Temperate Clime
Mid-Life Crisis
Middle World
Momentum, Which Once Put in Motion, Cannot Rest
The Moon in Winter
Moon Rock
Moon-Eyes
Moonlight on Alabaster
Morning on Noriega St.
Morning Shore
Musings
My Little Porcupine
My Ship
Mystery Play
Never Was
Night Moth
Night Companion
Night Visitor
Night with Stars
No Solution
Noncombining Elements
Not a Spot of Rust
Notes While in Attendance
Nothing Clever
November
Now that Summer Has Begun
Number One
O Monet
Ocean Bound
The Omen
On Breaking My Wrist
On the Eve of Your Departure
Once Again
One and All
103°
One Night with a Visiting Dignitary
One Way
One Who Wills the Oceans to Obey
Orchestra Seats
Our Passions Run Together
Our Sights Are Set
Our Story
Out and About, In the Public Eye
Outer/Inner Correlations
Outlines
The Outlook for Tomorrow
The Palace and the Lake
Paradise Lane
Paralysis
Passing
Patterns
Peace Garden
The Peacock and Rhinoceros
Pecan Trees and Snapping Turtles, Too
Peer Pressure
Perennials
Persistence
Petition to St. Peter
Pigeon Prayer
Plaid Man Dancing
Playing at Creation
Pocketful of Light
Poolside Conversation
Poor and Plenty
Potato Soup
A Prayer
Prelude
Prima Donna
Purple, Green, and Blue
Quantity
Questions of Precedence
Radio
Rain Parade
Raising Hopes, Raising Fears
Raven Song
Reaper and Grain: The Gain Is Yours
The Recluse
Recollection of a Traumatic Event
Recurring Arboreal Dream
Regarding Our Demise
Reparations
Return to the Forest
The Return of Spring
Ride
The Roar of the Lions
Rockaway Beach
Roger's Way
Rowboats and Canoes
Rows of Belgian Trees
Rubber Stamp Eyes
Rubbish
Rumblings
Running Towards Reunion with Herself
Sally
Samba
Sans Souci
The Scientific Outlook
Sea Change
The Sea Hawk's Cry
Sea of Wings
The Secret Garden
Secret Sentiments
Secret Sun
Self-Conviction
The Sense of Abundance
Sentient Life Worth Saving
Serendipity
Setting Traps for the Sacred
Shaving with Abandon
She
She Remembers Her Past
She Waits for Me
Showers
Side by Side
Simply Observing
Sing Ho! for the Life of a Sailor
Sixteen Wrens
Skyrain
A Slice of Cheese
Sojourn
Somehow
Something So Full
Song of Appreciation
Song of the Flower Stall Vendor
Spark
Speaking with One Tongue
Speech Release
The Spirit of Dissection
Streetgazing
Striking a Balance
A Studied Patience
Summer, Spring, Winter, Fall
Sunday Outing
Sunken Island
Swinging Doors
Tapestry of Hours
Tellus
Temptation
The Tender Tree
Thank You, I Have a Hobby Already
This Dress
This Ordinary Day
Three Souls
Tidal Procession
To a Morning Glory
To Nash, from June K.
Today's Present
Too Fast the Flame Ignites
Totem Pole
The Tramp at the Table Next to Mine
The Traveller
Tribal Recall
Trilogy
The Trouble with Pluses
Turnabout
The Turning Point
Turnstile Inhibitions
Twelve plus One
Two Friends
Undivided Attention
The Vagarious Behaviour of Beauty
The Vatican
Visible Evidence
Visitation 3 A.M.
Visiting Mr. Larkin
Wanting Little
Watching Fathers
The Water Cycle
Way Up North
The Weathered Touch
Welcome
What If My Feet
What the Waves Said
Whatever It Is
When All the Mountains Have a Different Face
When Brides Drift By
When the Chieftains Bring a Tune Around
When You Stepped into View
White Pavilions
Whole Heart
Wild Horses
Wildlife Queries
Winter Walk
With a Word
The World Had Dropped Away
Young and Old
Zoo Keeper
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