poetry

Works

• • 2008

  • • a handful of lunes - lunes, the american haiku. a small handful.
  • • asserted by a simple pin - Based on a stanza from The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
  • • before the march - Centering around Peter from the Diary of Anne Frank.
  • • foreigner upon moving to a new city (sonnet) - being a foreigner amongst foreigners. sonnet.
  • • if writing is an art - Writer's block response.
  • • tempest in a teapot - Based on a prompt starting with 'she is beautiful as bus tickets'.

  • 2007

  • • be mindful - Poem by Gabrielle. In a rage, wanting to kill.
  • • dreams & the morning sun - Poem by Gabrielle. Ode to the girl from Spring semester.
  • • murmuring to the sound of music - Poem by Gabrielle. Paranoia.
  • • no bigger than a camel - Poem by Gabrielle. About that priest from my teenage years.
  • • oh yes, black eyed and pure - Poem by Gabrielle. Not forgiving the past.

  • 2006

  • • doctor, take my mind - Poem by Gabrielle. Asking the doctor for medication and writers block.
  • • i wasn't. i really wasn't. - the not-vegetarian vegetarian.
  • • musings on a common language - Poem by Gabrielle. Trapped between Mina Loy and Adrienne Rich.
  • • sun in my hands - Poem by Gabrielle. Holder her, the sun, in my hands.
  • • the piece of mine - Poem by Gabrielle. Inspired by Grapes of Wrath.
  • • the pornography of it - Poem by Gabrielle. Insignificant nothing inspired by Mina Loy.
  • • the ribcage of her - Poem by Gabrielle. Incest.
  • • waiting for the sun - pastoral.

  • 2005

  • • i thought the light had gone out of them forever - after insanity has gone. love.
  • • johnny panic - name borrowed from plath but bears no relation. letting johnny panic into your life.
  • • Susan Went Home - Narnia. Post-Last Battle. Susan after she is left alone.
  • • trodding on crushed pills - going crazy as dawn comes in. stream of consciousness.

  • 2004

  • • charred love - being nothing.
  • • coffee at eight - in my red dress, waiting for him.
  • • fifteen - being fifteen and obsessed with god.
  • • finally at rest - my feet and where they take me.
  • • forgot, work tomorrow, school on monday - stream of consciousness retelling of a hectic day.
  • • here i am - the girl is there. just half wrong.
  • • i am alone - alone with my self-destruction.
  • • i was burying her alive - setting a lover free from a relationship.
  • • i'm going to hang today - at the end of the road.
  • • it speaks (that dirty used smell) - being obliged to do what you don't want to.
  • • it will never be over - world war II. growing up during the war.
  • • keep it inside of me - wishing still for that eating disorder.
  • • lady macbeth has collected - having your own blood on your hands. out, wretched spot!
  • • maybe daddy has finally come home after all -
  • • no more - dead relationship and the end of domestic supplication. sestina.
  • • off with his head - based on the idea that lewis carroll (charles dodgson) was in love with alice.
  • • ok, i lied - no writing what you should. disgust.
  • • one more day - my father. i am him and he is me.
  • • safety on a cold night - walking home alone after dark.
  • • she does trap me - attempt at blank verse. not entirely successfull.
  • • she needed me - i broke her apart and put her back together again. over and over.
  • • sonnet I - dealing with time, that woman. sonnet.
  • • the smoke of my funeral pyre - taking up smoking out of the blue.
  • • they grow - flowers, they grow.
  • • they waited for me - what happened after. one world ending and another beginning.
  • • this is her life - self-destruction. life.
  • • this is home - this is home, with her here.

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