A poem is never finished, just abandoned, dixit Mallarm\u00e9 or Val\u00e9ry or one of those fancy French poets. Yet there are degrees of unfinishedness, a quality the fatal press of time is on the side of.
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Here is a list of links to the twenty-four poems I \u201cabandoned\u201d in 2015, finishing them more than they could have been finished twenty or even ten years ago when there was more time left to go back to scavenge and pick bones, to rewrite and polish.<\/i><\/p>\n
Tethering<\/a> A poem is never finished, just abandoned, dixit Mallarm\u00e9 or Val\u00e9ry or one of those fancy French poets. Yet there are degrees of unfinishedness, a quality the fatal press of time is on the side of. Here is a list of links to the twenty-four poems I \u201cabandoned\u201d in 2015, finishing them more than they … <\/p>\n
\nShinny<\/a>
\nIris<\/a>
\nBeauty Sleep<\/a>
\nStoic Garden<\/a>
\nMaking Nothing Happen<\/a>
\nInsomnia at Forty Below<\/a>
\nShrines<\/a>
\nD\u00e9j\u00e0-vu<\/a>
\nChaparral Sunset<\/a>
\nCollations and other Delights<\/a>
\nEggs<\/a>
\nOnce There Was a Thoroughfare<\/a>
\nEnrique\u2019s Viaticum<\/a>
\nOracle<\/a>
\nLozeau\u2019s Azure<\/a>
\nTranstr\u00f6mer Beheld<\/a>
\nTranstr\u00f6mer\u2019s Traces\u2028<\/a>
\nQuasimodo\u2019s Blessed Brume\u2028<\/a>
\nW\u00f6rgl<\/a>
\n\u2028Snapshot from Berlin\u2028<\/a>
\nZeitverschiebung in Berlin<\/a>
\nUn chat parmi les livres\u2028<\/a>
\nGlobal Warning<\/a><\/p>\n