The Poetry of Brett Rutherford

THE POETRY OF BRETT RUTHERFORD

NEW POEMS POSTED AS WRITTEN

OCTOBER 2024

Everywhere I Looked, Blood Flowed. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “June 1871.”
The Hermit's House (Revised). "So he has raised himself a house."
Some Kind of Monster. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “June 1871.” “Some want to call me a chimera”
Holy Water Like a Hail of Stones. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “June 1871.” “Was it something I said?”
I Have No Episcopal Palace. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “June 1871.” “I have no episcopal palace in town”
So This is Exile. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “June 1871.” “The narrow path is not an easy one”
In Good Company (A Letter). Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “June 1871.” “Dear Lady, I say that what I did was good.”
I Have No Anger. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “June 1871.” “I have no anger, and that surprises you.”
The Arsonist. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “June 1871.” “One strides before me with a flaming brand.”
Marched to Her Death through the Streets of Paris. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “June 1871.” “A woman they imprisoned — who knows her name?”
A Woman Told Me This. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “June 1871.” “One who survived the massacres”
At a Barricade. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “June 1871.” “It was a barricade, abandoned now”
We Are Going to Be Shot, Part 1. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “June 1871.” “Nothing like Homer, this kind of war”
We Are Going to Be Shot, Part 2. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “June 1871.” “Standing aloof, what do our pities mean to them?”

AUGUST 2024

Everywhere I Looked, Blood Flowed. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “June 1871.”
The Hermit's House (Revised). "So he has raised himself a house."

JULY 2024

Moscow Was Burned, So Why Not Paris. "The Terror is here again. How far will it go?". Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “May 1871, Paris in Flames.”
A World Without Paris Is Unthinkable. "Without Paris, the world goes back to a cold and reptilian future." Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “May 1871, Paris in Flames, Part 2.”
The Judgment of Paris. "Some problems are golden fruits that may be full of ash." Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “May 1871, Paris in Flames, Part 3.”
Hag of the Past. "Stand here at the bar where I accuse you, Poverty" Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “May 1871, Paris in Flames Part 4.”
But When the Louvre Caught Fire. "Oh, the cry of the evil ghosts" Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “May 1871, Paris in Flames Part 5.”
Is It Night? Is It Day? "The horror comes at twilight" Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “May 1871.”
A Night in Brussels. "Here at my house, someone came to kill me" Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “May 1871.”
Weehawken Cinderella. "Home by midnight!"
Expelled from Belgium. "Mr. Hugo is enjoined ... to leave the Kingdom of Belgium" Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “May 1871.”
Fear of Falling (Revised). "The man who would be king."

JUNE 2024

The Two Monuments, Part 1. The rebellious Paris Commune threatens to destroy the Arc de Triomphe and the Napoleon column at the Vendôme. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “May 1871.”
The Two Monuments, Part 2. "Why do I see this horror even when my eyes are closed?" Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “May 1871.”
By the Number. Thirty four verdicts!
The Frailty of History. "No! Just ruins. Nothing." Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “May 1871.”
Look Away. A narrow escape.
Making Puppies. In the 1950s, nobody knew where puppies came from.

MAY 2024

The Invisible Man. I want to watch a horror movie; my mother wants to have an affair.
The Secrets of Life and Death. Some ten-year-olds discover a 1950s "Marriage Manual."
A Cry from Afar. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “April 1871.”
No Reprisals. A powerful moral statement made as a civil war was breaking out. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “April 1871.”
The Room. In Soviet Russia, they had ways of dealing with people like you.
Stay Back! "There is a solitude so deep that other solitudes are lost in it." Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “April 1871.”
They Rise, to Fall Again. "The future is made on the anvil of the present." Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “April 1871.”
While the Sea Roars. "Armies heard his pleas, and paused." Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “April 1871.”
A Birthday. "amid the merriment of clanging bells".
The Exiles. "to dwell unwelcome where even the sky is unfamiliar".

APRIL 2024

Auto-Correct.
Downtown and Back. Sampling the hotel dining rooms of Pittsburgh led to a curious dinner.
To Those Who Go First.Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “April 1871.”
There Was a Woman, Wild in the Woods.Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “April 1871.”
Terrible Weather.Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “April 1871.”

FEBRUARY 2024

If Nothing Else Saves Us. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “March 1871.”
The Struggle. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “March 1871.” “All around me, alas, the anger of ignorance.”
Charles! Charles! O My Son! Adapted and translated from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “March 1871.” “I walk, in mourning, but proud. Behind duty I march straight to the abyss.”
Sleep Not On Your Back. Based on an Old Assyrian Hymn.
The Drum-beat and the Lowered Flag: The Funeral of Charles Hugo. Translated from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “March 1871.” “O people, keep your great soul forever close to him!”
Mourning Upon Mourning. Translated from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “March 1871.”
I, the Higgs Boson.
The Pick-Up Man.

JANUARY 2024

A Bomb Over the Rue Feuillantines. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “January 1871.”
The Pigeon Post. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “January 1871.”
The Sortie. Translated from Victor Hugo l’Année Terrible, “January 1871.”
In the Circus Maximus. Adapted from Victor Hugo l’Année Terrible, “January 1871.”
After the Victories of Bapaume, Dijon, and Villersexell. Adapted from Victor Hugo l’Année Terrible, “January 1871.”
Watching My Granddaughter, Between Two Bombardments. Adapted from Victor Hugo l’Année Terrible, “January 1871.”
The Untrusted Allegory. Adapted from Victor Hugo l’Année Terrible, “January 1871.”
The Day They Surrendered Paris. Adapted from Victor Hugo l’Année Terrible, “January 1871.”
Before the Conclusion of the Treaty. Translated from Victor Hugo l’Année Terrible, “February 1871.” "If we ended this war as Prussia wanted, France would be like a glass on a cabaret table to be emptied, and then smashed against the wall."
To Those Who Dream of Monarchy. Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo l’Année Terrible, “February 1871.” “I am in a republic, and for a king I have myself.”
King of the Whole World. Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo l’Année Terrible, “February 1871.” “This man is ugly, old and bestial. What are you putting on his poor head? A crown? No, two crowns. No, three.”
The Wrong Time to Speak of Brotherhood. Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo l’Année Terrible, “February 1871.”
Progress and Destiny: A Canto of Dark and Light. Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo l’Année Terrible, “February 1871.” “On one side, the sacrificial victims. On the other, those who sacrificed them.”

DECEMBER 2023

Christmas, Don't Ask. What was your Christmas like? ... I changed the subject.
Prowess of the Prussians. Adapted and translated from Victor Hugo, l'Année Terrible. "December 1870"
The Forts of Paris. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l'Année Terrible, "December 1870"
To France, Abandoned. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l'Année Terrible, "December 1870"
Our Dead. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l'Année Terrible, "December 1870"
The Warning. A howling madman in downtown Pittsburgh
Family, Anglo-Saxon Style. "They watch for one another's death notices"
Who Is the Ultimate Victor? Adapted and translated from Victor Hugo, l'Année Terrible, "December 1870." Attention, Teutons! We have a thing or two it seems we need to teach you!
The First of January. Translated from Victor Hugo, l'Année Terrible, "January 1871"
The Jumbo Sandwich. Childhood memories of bologna in Scottdale, PA.
Letter to a Lady, Carried by Balloon. Translated and adapted from from Victor Hugo, l’Année Terrible, “January 1871”
The Stupidity of War. Adapted from Victor Hugo, l'Année Terrible, "January 1871"
No! No! No! Adapted and translated from Victor Hugo, l'Année Terrible, "January 1871" "The King of Prussia, here and lording it over Paris! No!"
Summation. Adapted and translated from Victor Hugo, l’Annee Terrible, “January 1871.” A denunciation of Louis-Jules Trochu (1815-1896), President of the Government of National Defense, who resigned from his post January 22, 1871.

NOVEMBER 2023

November One.
Bancroft - Adapted from Victor Hugo, November 1870.
Seen Floating on the Seine, Some Prussian Corpses - Adapted from Victor Hugo, November 1870.
Talking Yourself Into War - Adapted from Victor Hugo, November 1870.
Thoughts And Prayers Are Not Enough - Translated from Victor Hugo, November 1870.
Heaven and Earth- Adapted from Victor Hugo, November 1870.
To the Bishop Who Called Me An Atheist - Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo, November 1870.
The Fly.
The Goodman's Croft.
To A Sick Child During the Siege - Adapted from Victor Hugo, November 1870.
Great Expectations - Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo, December 1870.
When the Valkyries Come — Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo, December 1870.
At the Orchid Pavilion. Adapted from LAntingji Xu, “Preface to the Poems Collected from the Orchid Pavilion” by Wang Xizhi (303-361 CE, Jin Dynasty).
A Message to President Grant.
To the Cannon Named After Me. Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo, l'Année Terrible, "December 1870".
Thanking the Guests. A vulture stuffed with bread and celery ... is still a vulture.
Oh You Who Loved Juvenal. Translation of some lines that Victor Hugo wrote in 1852 when he set out to write a whole volume of savage satire against Napoleon III. He remembered the Roman poet Juvenal, who perfected the art of the withering insult poem.

OCTOBER 2023

The Defeat at Sedan, Part 2 - Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo, retitled 'Where Madmen Go'.
The Defeat at Sedan, Part 3 - Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo, retitled 'When They Fall'.
The Defeat at Sedan, Part 4 - Translated from Victor Hugo, retitled 'The Catalog of Shame'.
The Defeat at Sedan, Part 5 - Translated from Victor Hugo, retitled 'One Surrenders'.
The Defeat at Sedan, Part 6 - Translated from Victor Hugo, retitled 'Once It Was Gaul'.
The Choice Between Two Nations- Translated from Victor Hugo.
To the War Criminals.
October 1870, Part 1 Translated from Victor Hugo, 'Exiled, I became the ocean's old prowler.
Free, But for What?
Paris Blockaded, Reborn - Adapted from Victor Hugo, September 1870.
Worthy of One Another - Adapted from Victor Hugo, September 1870.
Will This War Make Us Into Noble Beings? - Adapted and translated from Victor Hugo, September 1870.
To Little Jeanne - Translated and adapted from from Victor Hugo.
October 1870, Part 2 - Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo, retitled 'As Dante and Aeschylus Look On'.
October 1870, Part 3 - Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo, retitled 'As An Embattled Star'.
Atop the Walls of Paris, At Nightfall - Adapted and translated from Victor Hugo.
Paris Slandered in Berlin. - Adapted from Victor Hugo, November 1870.
To All the Princes - Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo, November 1870.

SEPTEMBER 2023

Cosmology.
The Dociles.
Her Little Apples - Adapted from Paulus Silentarius, The Greek Anthology, vi, 290.
To a Garden Priapus - Adapted from Anonymous, The Greek Anthology, vi, 22.
Things Abandoned to Hermes - Adapted from Julianus, Prefect of Egypt, The Greek Anthology, vi, 28.
The Beast- Adapted from Leonidas, The Greek Anthology, vi, 262.
Having It All - After Theognis, Elegaic Poems, 293-294.
Money Was Made - After Callimachus, Aetia.
- From Victor Hugo, "When 7.5 Million Voted Yes".
Wrong Rub - Adapted from Anonymous, The Greek Anthology, v, 82.
Oh, Give It Up - Adapted from Asclepiades, The Greek Anthology, v, 85.
The Dark Lady - Adapted from Asclepiades, The Greek Anthology, v, 210.
When 7.5 Million Voted Yes, Part 1 - Translated from from Victor Hugo.
When 7.5 Million Voted Yes, Part 2 - Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo.
Prelude to The Terrible Year - Adapted from Victor Hugo.
Lazy Bones.
The Burial. - Adapted from Paul Verlaine.
The Defeat at Sedan, Part 1 - Translated and adapted from Victor Hugo.

AUGUST 2023

Make Merry Now - Adapted from Rufinus, The Greek Anthology, v, 12.
Hesiod's Dream - From Callimachus, Aetia, 2.
Birth of a Poem - From a fragment of Callimachus, Aetia 7.
The Argo Got Away - After Callimachus, Aetia 7, 19-21.
Fire Is Not Easy - After Callimachus, Aetia, 48.
The Beautiful People- After Theognis, Elegies, 15-18.
Accusing Zeus - From Theognis, Elegaic Poems, 731-752.
Sociopaths - Theognis, Elegaic Poems 149-154.
Milkweed Seeds.
The Goddess of Poverty.

JULY 2023

His Attributes.
At Homer's Grave on Ios - Adapted from Antipater, The Greek Anthology, vii, 2.
Priapus on the Seashore - After Archias, The Greek Anthology, x, 7,8,10.
On a Statue of Echo - Adapted from Archias, The Greek Anthology, xvi, 154.
The Raven and the Scorpion - Adapted from Archias, The Greek Anthology, ix, 339.
The Locked-Up Mouth- After Theognis 421-424.
The Good Town - After Callimachus, Aetia, 48.
Fragments in Defense of the Personal Poem - After Callimachus, Aetia, 1.
The Shards of Gods - Inspired by Theognis, Elegaic Poems, i, 1-4.
Communions.
The Count.
By Night She Is Mine - After Anonymous, The Greek Anthology, v, 2.

JUNE 2023

Prayer to a Strange Goddess. - Adapted from Anonymous, The Greek Anthology, vi, 24

MAY 2023

An Offering to Priapus - Adapted from Archias, The Greek Anthology vi, 192.
The Dented Trumpet - Adapted from Archias, The Greek Anthology, vi, 195.
Three Spinning Sisters - Adapted from Archias, The Greek Anthology, vi, 39.
Diogenes the Cynic, Dead - After Archias, The Greek Anthology, vii, 68.
Less Said, Best Said - Adapted from Archias, The Greek Anthology, vii, 140.
Atys and the Lion- Adapted from Dioscorides, The Greek Anthology, vi, 220.
The Madness of Ajax - Adapted from Archias, The Greek Anthology, vii, 147.
Fly Away! Fly Away! - Adapted from Archias, The Greek Anthology, v, 59.
From the Magpie - Adapted from Archias, The Greek Anthology, vii, 191.
Death of the Cicada - After Archias, The Greek Anthology, vii, 213.
The Beached Dolphin - After Archias, The Greek Anthology, vii, 214.
The Shipwreck's Grave - Adapted from Archias, The Greek Anthology.
Killing the Lion at Nemea - After Archias, The Greek Anthology, xvi, 94.
Singing Ludwig.
In the Balkans - After Archias, The Greek Anthology, ic, 111.

APRIL 2023

Introduction to the poems of Meleager.

MARCH 2023

Woe to Bayonne, New Jersey.
A Gift of Daffodils - Part 1 of "A Northumbrian Wedding".
Rats at the Wedding - Part 2 of "A Northumbrian Wedding."
Lord Rutherford's Castle - Part 3 of "A Northumbrian Wedding."
The White Lady. - Part 4 of "A Northumbrian Wedding."
Ancien Regime

FEBRUARY 2023

On the Porch - from The Greek Anthology.
To Spring - after Meleager.
Oaks I Would Like to Know
The Kind-Hearted Girl - after Poseidippus.
Up in the Sky
Valentine's Day
That Day in February
The Cynic's Fall - after Leonidas.
From the Vine - from The Greek Anthology.
Lament for Orpheus - after Antipater of Sidon.
Our Diminished Company - from Diogenes Laertius.
At the Tomb of Sophocles - from Simias.
Kangxi Drinks Tea from His Porcelain Eggshell Teacups

JANUARY 2023

A Contest of Eyes - after Meleager.
Hubris.
In A Name - adapted from Meleager.
Either-Or - adapted from Meleager.
Midsummer Respite - adapted from Meleager.
Bringing Bad News to Niobe - adapted from Meleager.
Dreams of Down Below - adapted from Dioscorides.
Two Scholars Atop a Cliff.
Things I Never Dreamt I'd Eat.
Go to Elysium.
Unlucky Number.
To Antiochus - adapted from Meleager.
The Mourner - adapted from Dioscorides.
The Mirror of Lais. - adapted from Julianus, Prefect of Egypt.
The Azaleas of Ningpo
A Tripod at Delphi - adapted from Antipater of Sidon.
Figures on a Kangxi Vase
Figures sur un Vase du Règne de Kangxi
This Way and That - adapted from Meleager.
Message to Heliodora - adapted from Meleager.
Past Her Prime - adapted from Meleager.
Elegy for Charixenus - adapted from Meleager.
Chinatown 1975
Oblivion - adapted from Meleager.
Line Up the Young Men of Kos - adapted from Meleager.
The First Anthologist - adapted from Meleager.
The Evil Song - adapted from Dioscorides.
Snuff Out the Lamp - adapted from Asclepiades.
An Unholy Trio - adapted from Asclepiades.
Night Torment - adapted from Asclepiades.
The Tea-Pet Toad.

DECEMBER 2022

If Only They Saw.
Interrogation - adapted from Meleager.
Heliodora, Dead! - adapted from Meleager.
The God Pan in Bronze - adapted from Meleager.
On Wine and Water - adapted from Meleager.
The Funeral of Adonis - adapted from Dioscorides.
Afterwards.
The Dark One.
Knecht Ruprecht.
Strip Woods.
The Hungry Eye - adapted from Meleager.
The Fire Bearer - adapted from Meleager.
In the House of Eros.
Spare This Ox - adapted from Meleager.
Timon of Athens' Tombstone - from The Greek Anthology.
Beardless No More - adapted from Meleager.
The Fading Charms - adapted from Meleager.
Love On Top - adapted from Meleager.
Absence - adapted from Meleager.
She Waits at Kos - adapted from Meleager.
When Zenophila Sings - adapted from Meleager.
Dilemma - adapted from Meleager.
Wreath and Crown - adapted from Meleager.
Month of Wine.
Anti-Eros - adapted from Meleager.
Hear Walking Past A Doorway in Ephesus - adapted from Meleager.
Four Torches - adapted from Meleager.
His Own Epitaph - adapted from Meleager.
My Own Ganymede - adapted from Meleager.
Christmas Eve.
Spitting Image - adapted from Meleager.
Of the Same Name - adapted from Meleager.
An Interior Temple - adapted from Meleager.
Property of Zeus - adapted from Meleager.
Diasporas.
Super Powers - adapted from Meleager.
Burning Up - adapted from Meleager.
After the Shipwreck, Love - adapted from Meleager.

NOVEMBER 2022

Watching Her House - adapted from Meleager.
Lost and Found - adapted from Meleager.
Too Much of A Good Thing - adapted from Meleager.
That Monster Child - adapted from Meleager.
Seeing the Light - adapted from Meleager.
Hold Back the Dawn - adapted from Meleager.
Prayer to Night - adapted from Meleager.
Bee, Tell Me Not - adapted from Meleager.
Love by Stealth - adapted from Meleager.
Mosquito Jealousy - adapted from Meleager.
Spring Garland - adapted from Meleager.
Trapped - adapted from Meleager.
At the Temple of Ares - adapted from Meleager.
The Cats of Kilkenny
An Oak Leaf, Solitary, adapted from Lermontov.
Deceit - adapted from Meleager.
Epigrams on Gravity.
God Has
Father and Son (Saturn devours his chldren).

OCTOBER 2022

By Night and Lamp - adapted from Meleager.
The Customer - adapted from Palladus.
Too Many Arrows - adapted from Meleager.
Be A Good Sport - adapted from Meleager.
Fever Dream
Book Row
A Prague Mystery - A Golem Poem.
Do Not Feed
Of A Sudden - an ominous autumn poem.
Bringing Home the Bacon
Anthropocene
The Why Of It
Sunset Rhapsody
Saint-John's Eve
The Fingers
The Consultation
Autumn in Alexandria

SEPTEMBER 2022

Equinox, An Autumn Poem
Under Every Bed
Things We Don't Do
People Like That
Rhyme Not for the Sake of Rhyming
Politics As Usual
Epigrams on Prophets and Such
Literary Epigrams
Roadside Encounter
Written While Dying - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
What Kind of Poet - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Empty Is The Past - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Of Trysts Gone By - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Places and Names - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Am I Awake? - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Lichen - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Horses As Fierce As Flying Dragons - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Tears - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
The Land of Wine - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Separated - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
The Parasol Trees - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Ninth Day of the Ninth Month - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Monotony - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Night Sounds - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Meditation in Exile - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Nightmare - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Long Is The Sadness - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
The Futile Bouquet - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Doubts - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
The Court Officials - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
War Story
Alone in the Temple - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
The Interruption - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
The Beloved Speaks - The Assignation - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
The Hut - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Waiting For Her - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
The Prisoner - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
The Empress Alone - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
The Other Woman
Invocation of the Demons - From the Long Poem "City Limits"
Devil Dogs
Vision At Sunrise - From the Long Poem "City Limits"
Haight Street - From the Long Poem "City Limits"
Visiting the Dowager - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
The Forbidden Palace -Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Down South (Revision) - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Sweeping the Tombs - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Making Love to te Empress - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Woman of Spring - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
The Floating Things - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Making Spring Happen - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Dancing on Autumn Leaves - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Crybaby
Big House, Rent Cheap

AUGUST 2022

Awakening in Early Autumn - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
At the Door
September Sarabande
Open Stacks
White People
Choosing No One - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Autumn Day-Dreams - Emperor Li Yu Poem Cycle
Nocturne
Gaze Not Upon Her - Callimachus Poem Cycle
His Final Play
Thelma, Then Irma
Street Scene - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
The Sleeper - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
The Friend of Orestes
The Shipwreck's Gravestone - The Calllimachus Poem Cycle
Times Four - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
He Comes Around - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
Suspicions - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
Walking Wounded - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
Knowing Not Whom I Love, Or Why - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
The Hunt - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
The Love Lorn - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
Matters of Taste - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
Catastrophe at Cyrene - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
Necromancy - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
The Little Plaque By the Garden Way - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
The Cenotaph - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
The Poor Man's Gravestone - The Callimachus Poem Cycle
The Statue Speaks - The Callimachus Poem Cycle

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