Archive for January, 2009

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

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