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October 2006:# 29 - 32
In time for Halloween, four death-themed poems on ghostly white paper.
29: modus mortem
30: i.c.u.
31: you visiting for the first time
32: "mother's cleaver"

September 2006: #25 - 28
These poems are inspired and dedicated to the place I live and love so much. Printed on lime green paper.
25: Flat Street construction May 1, 2003
26: Oh, to be a bee painted on the side of the Beeline Bus
27: right on time
28: Wells Fountain Haibun - haibun is a Japanese poetic form

August 2006:
NO POEMS :(

July 2006: #21 - 24
These poems were all written while attending the Kundiman Foundation's Emerging Asian American Poets' Retreat in VA in June 2006. They are very new. The set comes in bright orange, like the setting sun over the ridge of Black Mountain in July.
21:"in the swamp I dream you are falling"
22: Afghanistan
23: "have the pink and bone petals all fallen"
24: "Summer Evening, 1947" - this is also the title of an Edward Hopper painting.

June 2006: #17 - 20
Sonnets, sonnets, sonnets. Ranges from fun to sensual. Printed on beautiful grape colored paper.
17: a deejay's sonnet for the cause of radio - this was read at the rfb's community forum in October 2003 and broadcast on BCTV.
18: halloween costume - this also appeared in my limited edition "6 poems" chapbook of 2003.
19: "Every place I went for swimming..." - an Italian sonnet.
20: "soon 'twill be too cold..." - many thanks to Dan Barlow, who let me steal this first line.

May 2006: #13 - 16. A 2 for 1 deal! Two haikus per quarter, printed on ocean blue paper. 8 poems total.

April 2006: #9 - 12."The Poems I Meant to Write But Never Will", a poem in four parts. Buy the standalone sections, or read them in numerical order for the whole poem. These are on verdant green paper. #9 is almost sold out!

March 2006: #5 - 8. Short pieces about journeys and traveling on ivory paper. Note: "heliolatrix" is a word I made up.

Feb 2006: #1 - 4. Love poems for the lonely or longing. Printed on hot lava paper. #3 is almost sold out!
 

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