this is stuff i've written mainly because i love the language, and in a minority of cases, because i wanted to tell somebody something. i also write rants, journal-type things, and scientific stuff, but that's not what's here -- for science, check out my doctoral work.
poems for real people i actually love
a complete concordance and course of study (a canzone)
the dragon's hoard (a sonnet)
the witches' creed (a villanelle)
talk kimberly and dissociated talk kimberly (a failed
attempt at pantoum, and an emacs dissociated-text version
making light (a kind of inverted villanelle)
touch (a kinda goth tune)
poems about minor mythological characters
epimetheus
the minotaur remembering icarus (a villanelle)
in-a-gadda-da-vida, baby (a sestina)
two poems about pandora (one free verse, one sonnet)
the vulture
personal mythos and naturalist stuff
in-a-gadda-da-vida, baby (a sestina)
why i believe....
getting to heaven (i believe in sestinas)
uncommon names
three kingdoms
our friend the newt (total prose!)
a song about the moon
here be dragons (more lyrics)
elegies and their kin
lost in translation (song lyrics)
avicenna (a filk song)
what little i know (a pair of twin sestinas)
elegy for a paleoanthropologist
the suicides (a poem in quatrains)
the "talk kimberly" poems
skyline road (a ballad)
tools for writing formal poetry
sestina.c
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