MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS & JUVENILIA

Current (2021-present)

"If you don't seek a little beauty..." (thoughts & observations)

"Manifest Destiny has been replaced..." (thoughts & observations)

"Be honest and authentic..." (thoughts & observations)

Birder Meme #2 (There's other birds!) (humor)

Birder Meme #1 (It's a heron!) (humor)

"Cheers! to the dreams that die..." (thoughts & observations)

The Loss of a Beloved Bird (humor; non-extant)

Final Texts (humor; non-extant)

Lost Dad (thoughts & observations)

2010-2020

Cats Rule! (humor)

"Day is a bright open eye..." (thoughts & observations)

"Everyone calls regular mail..." (humor)

Factoid: "87% of hotdog manufacturing plants..." (humor)

Factoid: "Nearly every bug you've ever swallowed..." (humor)

Factoid: "One out of every 68 million dandelions..." (humor)

"Friends..." (humor)

"From my point of view..." (thoughts & observations)

Ghost in  the Corner and Other Stories, The by Lord Dunsany (book review)

"Gonna form a rock band..." (humor)

"I figured it out..." (humor)

"I figured out a new thing..." (humor)

"I grieve for the storytellers..." (thoughts & observations)

"I highly recommend..." (oddity)

"I raise my glass..." (humor)

"I shouldn't have put my ant farm..." (humor)

"I want to be pagan..." (humor)

"If a person turns into a zombie..." (oddity)

"If you're worried about rushing through life..." (humor)

"I'm slipping from my skin..." (poetry; thoughts & observations)

"In falling asleep on mossy ground..." (oddity)

"In the pitch black of the future..." (thoughts & observations)

Internet, The (rant; non-extant)

"Mr. and Mrs. Mold..." (humor)

"My cat is totally fly..." (humor)

"Praise the good things in life..." (thoughts & observations)

"Some memories are scars..." (thoughts & observations)

Thank You (humor)

"That meeting..." (humor)

"The earth and the sky..." (thoughts & observations)

"Why do I seek truth..." (thoughts & observations)

"Why would I put my faith..." (oddity)

"You awoke one morning..." (thoughts & observations)

Before 2010

"A few years ago, while visiting St. Louis..." (thoughts & observations)

"A light is brightest..." (thoughts & observations)

Cri du Chat Syndrome (article)

Emma's Favorite Thing to Look At (prose poem)

Environmental Ethics: Development (essay; non-extant)

"In America we're allowed to sue compulsively so..." (humor)

Journal entries from old notebook (non-extant)

Journal entries from Morton Arboretum nature writing class 2004 (non-extant)

Journal entries from Wildbranch Writing Workshop 2004 (non-extant)

"Once, at a Waffle House..." (thoughts & observations)

Promoting the Concept of Perception as a Recreation (essay; non-extant)

Suburbia and Suburban Wildlife (essay; non-extant)

There's a Mouse in My Nose (humor)

JUVENILIA (mostly poetry)

A Man Lays Down

A Real Cut-Up

"A rose, by candlelight..."

"Acid rain drips off the unspoken tongue..."

An Interview with Creepyboy Jack (fiction)

Another Reason I Love You

"Anticipation has made this..." (fragment)

"Autumn turns me your favorite colors..."

"Bird of Paradise..."

Catbird, The (possibly the first poem I ever wrote)

"Counting stars..." (fragment)

"Crumbling ships press on..."

...Early to Rise

"I am a flake off the scalp of insanity..." (fragment)

"I fumbled over my waking..."

"I have no gestures for my story..." (fragment)

"I should go explore the cosmos..." (fragment)

I Stand, Waiting

"I'd have been a beggar..." (fragment)

"I will pull you into view..."

"If there is anything impossible..." (fragment)

"If you're ever free to wander..." (fragment)

"I open my arms to an avalanche..." (fragment)

Is Love...

"I've wondered about Time..."

Johnny No One (fiction)

Last Broken Day, The

"Lately/In the forest..."

"Let's say you actually dig your way to China..."

Let Us Go There

More

"My love emeritus..." (fragment)

No Words Will Lift Her

Not to Know

Oliver, Then Me

"Once, I cursed God..."

"Outside I hear life going on..."

Painting

"Pen writes the word..."

People

Plenty of Curious Hummingbirds

"Pulling me behind her..." (fragment)

Red-petaled Pathway, The

"She is Love..."

"She's so adorable when..." (fragment)

Silence Numbs the Bell (fragment)

Something So Beautiful (fragment)

Thanksgiving is Upon Us, Which Means...

"The eye in the keyhole..." (fragment)

"The tail-tip of night..." (fragment)

"The tear that once cried itself dry..." (fragment)

"Today is another holiday..."

To Deserve You

Under the Horizontal Glare

"We have to pull the gap..."

"Where is the ferryman..."

"Where were your thoughts..."

Will You Love Me Then?