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WHAT A RELIEF

It's wild life rifle fire.

"The effect is shocking... An important book... The poem adds to the conversation about what is poetry." --A Bunch Books

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"A stunningly beautiful work... Gorgeously clean… Imaginatively designed... Finding the tricks in the language that the language couldn't know it had." --Geof Huth

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HaHaHappy Holidays!

~@~

What a relief! It's wild life rifle fire.

"The effect is shocking... An important book... The poem adds to the conversation about what is poetry." --A Bunch Books

Assume the throne with a signed, discounted copy for only $8.00. (U.S. shipping included. International? Let's talk. Paypal or check accepted.)

"A stunningly beautiful work... Gorgeously clean… Imaginatively designed... Finding the tricks in the language that the language couldn't know it had." --Geof Huth

No crap! Get your copies signed and with surprises thrown in. Email crowkeeper64[at]gmail[dot]com for details.

HaHaHappy Holidays!

"The most unique and unusual book of poems I have ever read." --Brian Degrechie

*philada blues* (originally published in Philadelphia Stories)

*philada blues*

pink nickel-Ziplocs
branded

"NEW LIFE"

litter the outskirts
of a high-

rise condo

construction site
dumpster

that's been

tagged "DREAMS
GO HERE"

typical gchat with goose and/or ariel

~@~

some vispo: first published in Otoliths

OTOLITHS!!!

TABLE of CONCEPTS: Poemergency Room

I - poembark
9. text message
10. Poemblazonry
11. THE'S THEME PARK THESAURUS
12. the hyperventilating hyphen
13. THAT THAT JOY BENDER
14. thots during Hebrew school, or trans-obliteration of a few brachot
15. private magazines
16. ANTIBIOTICS

II - poembattle
19. to answer the new interview
20. Guarding the Unparkable
21. why I love art students
22. ZEPHYR KAYAK EMBRYO
24. America stop honking I know what I'm doing
25. The Cantilever Bridge
26. NAMETAG TIME LAGS
28. FROM PENNSYLVANIA STATION
29. for The Ticking
30. server error
31. toast: and if within
33. STACY TOLD ME A STORY
34. Poempathisizing with Winter

III - poemerge
37. Poembrace the Bloom
38. 04.06.06 – the Greyboy Allstars – TLA, PA
39. A Poembarrassing Display
40. Esmeralda Barracuda Seven-Dollar Semaphore
41. JUST A FEW BLOCKS
42. 05.28.06 – the Disco Biscuits – Electric Factory, PA
43. Hecanbe
44. City Blocks with Gift Shop Mug and Nude
45. SUICIDE IN THE SUBWAY
46. A meeting of messengers
47. corporate client to graphic designer
48. acrobatic macaroni, or at a music-boiled battle scene
49. Poemporium of Home
50. BLIND CARBON COPY TO GERTRUDE STEIN

IV - poembolden
57. Staff Teen Tourientation, or Poemancipations
58. ZION ON A ROCK, DEEPER IN, LISTENING
59. driving the center lane lines
60. HORSESHOE BEND LOOKOUT without Camera
61. EbEnEzEr Huge, eBeNeZeR Truth
62. the chill soar
64. Legend of 261 Corso Cristòforo Colombo, The
66. FIRST HIKE in the LAST FRONTIER
68. caustics
70. global warming

V - poemboss
73. Morning Outside C-205
74. all our aisles
76. Monotono! An "eGarage" of the InfoAge's first vowel
77. 10.23.06 – Beck – Tower Theatre, PA
78. LISTLESS
79. 19th & Delancey
80. 11.08.06 – Michael Franti & Spearhead – Electric Factory, PA
81. 11.11.06 – Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood – Electric Factory, PA
83. Poembalmed
84. 11.17.06 – Roger McGuinn of The Byrds opening for Doc Watson – Keswick Theater, PA

VI - poemanate
87. The Double-o Poem, or All in a Woodpecker's Afternoon
88. A Good-Surprise Experience Awaits
91. In the Elevator, Friday 5:30
92. 12.16.06 – the New Deal – TLA, PA
93. WINTER VINTAGE VINYL WINE
94. 12.30.06 – the Disco Biscuits – Electric Factory, PA
96. 12.31.06 – the Disco Biscuits – Tweeter Center, NJ

VII - poemphasize
101. Poemergency Room

VIII - poem
105. THE BROKEN BONES OF OCTOBER 27TH



# Publisher: Otoliths Books; 1st edition (January 18, 2008)
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Poems appeared in the American Poetry Review, Coconut, E Pluribus Unum: An Anthology of Diverse Voices, GHOTI, horse less review, Moria, Otoliths, Sawbuck, Shampoo, Siren, Softblow and Umbrella; featured in Paste Magazine.

and it's the wild life rifle fire "RAIN DANCE" -- what's crazy is if you have chromadepth glasses, these are in 3D

Special thanks to Stefen W. for his ingenious execution of color theory.

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