2009 :: Issue 4/Spring :: Poem Fragments
Titles
Michael Estabrook
TITLES OF WOMEN POEMS
a space not crowded
ALICE D. CAHOON & AUNT LUCY
as if time had stood still
AT THE 60s DANCE
at the marina
beautiful
BEAUTIFUL DECEPTION
BEHIND EVERY DOOR
blessings
blondes in black dresses
Carol
Christine, my Christine
CONVERSATIONS WITH AUNT DOTTY
delicate porcelain dolls
DISHES & DIAPERS
EACH OTHER
every square inch of her body
FAMILY TREE
flashing eyes
fuchsia
GAYLE’S HOUSE
GREEN AND WHITE
Harvard Yard, December 2, 1998
her scent
I haven’t seen Christine since 1963
I’m standing at the copy machine
icicles kiss
if I could choose my last moment
I’M A GARDENER, NOT A GATHERER
like a bat
LINDA’S PLACE
LOPSIDED WOODEN POSTS
Louie Louie
MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS
(MY WIFE HATES THE OPERA)
not how I had hoped the evening would go
on the morning commuter bus ride into New York City in 1970
on their warm breaths
OOPS
rearview mirror
red hair white car
RUSTIC WHITE KNOTTY PINE BOARDS
Shakespeare
SHAKING THE CURLS BACK OFF HER FACE
she cries
she played the bells
SLICK SHINY WIDE BELT
soft white hand
strangest thing really
SUSAN SAID:
TALKING TO HERSELF ALONE IN THE DARK
tattoos
thank you
THE BELLS
the woman across the aisle on a MetroJet 737
until the entire kiss was done
unworthy
when our eyes would meet at the station
when Patti would fall asleep
white marble statue
White Thong
WHITE WINGS
WILD ROSES
Wild roses dream
yellow crayons
IDEAS AND TITLES FOR CHAPBOOKS & COLLECTIONS
After Thoughts
All the Common Injustices
Ancestral Portraits / Couples
COLORS
Conversations
Creating Memories
Daydreams—through windowpanes
Diorama Poems (autobiographical places)
Dreams & Nightmares, Shadows & Echoes
Escapes
Estabrook Brothers, Inc
Found Poems
Impressionism
Lasting Impressions
Letters
Numbers—poems with numbers in their titles
Overload
Pastiche of ? (collage) (scraps) (clips)
Philosophical Poetry
Portraits
Prose Poems: theme
ROOMS I have known (rooms are like cousins)
Snapshots (poems intermingled with snapshots, clips)
THE HALF-MAN: Remnants of Michael: about being unworthy, especially for my wife
The Wind Through The Back Trees
Thought Experiments (Pascal quote)
Trilogy Poems (ex. Grandpa I, II, III)
Vignettes—picture, photo with no definite border, shading off at the edges
War (& Peace)
Watershed
When Sometimes