Flashbulb danger: selected poems 1988-2018

Preface

Early stuff

Radio waves

Lost in the flood

Poem for Alistair Frazier

Old ghost

Moonblind

Days are like trains

Lessons

Her boy

Tragedy at the roadside

Mind the seeds you plant

What chances revealed

A heady drug

The angel, Blake and Doritos

Bukowskiing

For sale

A dilemma

A true American

The boom

Death of an artist

STAN 65

Rest in peace

Safe in heaven?

New once again

Open Mike night

So much for paradise

The muse takes a powder

Middle stuff (2003-2010)

A reality bomb

Take it as it comes

The crow and the yellow tree

Mankind's reach

Aphorism

True person

Current events

Every Taoist knows

Good Friday, 1 p.m.

The geology of genealogy

What you wanted?

What you haven't

The gravel falls in vain

Revolt at the internet cafe

Mature stuff (2011-2015)

Cured

Cold case cowboys

Where this was going

WTF?

Final notice

A damn thing at all

Important too

Him alone

A rare and singular quality

Enough

The satisfaction

Cat burglar

The safest bet

Unscathed

A piece of this action

Stranger than fiction

Fuel

The breadman

Snapped

Box wars

Captain Nitro returns

Brain-cramped

For better and for worse

Crash course

Coo-coo-cachew

Cheer up, subversive Jean

Easy layup

M-A-L-L-O-Y

Godspeed, Myrna

In fact

Jupiter works on commission

Multiple ironies

Where the wheels fell off

The night hoss kiboshed the king

And Stuart Margolin as Angel

Amelia Earhart pancake '14

New stuff (2016-2018)

After you, Dr. Freud

Bird on a motorcycle

Brand faithful

The dog won't eat supper tonight

Son of obituary

Good on you, Malibu

Somebody's last straw

Flashbulb danger

The biggest mudak in the world

It turned

Last words

Marvel Comics is forever

Mind game

Three black clouds

The sky cried

Wait 'til tomorrow

My backhanded reward

The Play-Doh incident

River Phoenix said

Three shots in paradise

Shards

The past, the meter reader or both

One regret

A shame, openly crying

Rosebud at Xanadu

Professor Seagull meets the barfly

Coffee with the poets: Jack Phillips Lowe

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