Blood Songs
“Ten thousand love letters/(the clouds look like a sea of icebergs from above)/ ten thousand love letters to write/before I go” Written in 2000-2001 (unpublished).

The Music Space
A book of poems begun with sound in mind, ending with 9/11, the “Little Ramshackle Shack” of the end of an era of naïve safety in America and our immediate entrance into the realm of Divine Test and consequence. Written in 2001. Published 2007 by The Ecstatic Exchange.

Where Death Goes
“A life begun and its meanings arising/like incipient words in a decipherable sentence/left unfinished at death/an utterance begun in the liquid season/ but left incompletely congealed/a song begun in the back of the throat in the/pitchblack unknown part of the heart/and even in the body’s unknowable wellsprings” Written 2001-2002 (unpublished).

The Flame of Transformation Turns to Light /
99 Ghazals Written in English
Ninety-Nine formal ghazals written first in Turkey with a highlight visit to Yunus Emre’s tomb and Rumi’s tomb in Konya, and continuing in the electrified energy from that visit back home in Philadelphia. Written in 2002. Published by The Ecstatic Exchange 2007.

Through Rose-Colored Glasses
“Like my little row house backyard garden/even though I’m now 62/I’m just starting out/each year a new profusion of green/vines grasses weeds of /particular beauty Black-eyed Susans from/before clumps of reeds shoots of brown whatevers/this year particularly beautiful a real/secret grotto garden as I’d so/desired where a Rousseau tiger might prowl” Written in 2002-2003 (unpublished).

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Dates of Composition:
2000-2001
2001
2001-2002
2002
2002-2003