A print publication of Opus Seven: Two Small Books in the Major and Minor Modes is now available for purchase on Amazon. It may also be read in its entirety via the links below.
Crawling Calliope: Poems in the Major Mode [Epigraph]
Ten Weeks (or, Nineteen Persons Caught Within a Net on the Crystal Soup)
Rock of Ages (three American sestinas)
A Subjacent Hideaway (or, An Inquiry Concerning Books and Lives)
Five Theses (or, Framing Concepts with the Sample)
Lady Fingers (Poems in the Minor Mode) [Epigraph]
Aesop's Lament (or, The Proverbial Brim)
Poor Pindar, Again (or, The Face I Got)
The Future Is Fine (Theme and Interpellations)
The Strategist of a Secret (or, Alcibiades - Lad of Athens)
Appendix: Additional Poems from 2003 to 2006
1: The Mirrored Wedge
Much Obliged
2: Both Either and Or
The Slanted Door
3: I Am Not That I Am
My Rod and My Staff and My Other I
When Wit Is Born
The Fist of the Punch-line's Thug
Adam and His Hoe
Hoe with an "E"
Wanting a Theme
How It Differs
From Rage to Rage
To the Tap
The Truest Poem
Mounted and Veiled
Eight Rilkean Poems
Gong Xi Fa Cai (or, A New Year's Postcard from the Haasian Atoll)