This collection of poems–one poem for each of the 60 chapter titles in Susan G. Wooldridge’s book poemcrazy–was written in April 2021. I will link more poems as I post them.
- Dedication
- From Chapter to Verse
- Aiders and Abettors
- 1 – outlaw on a poem walk
- 2 – Mr. Mabie
- 3 – collecting words and creating a word pool
- 4 – the answer squash
- 5 – most mad and moonly
- 6 – gas, food, longing
- 7 – being here
- 8 – it looks like
- 9 – naming wild hippo
- 10 – our real names
- 11 – opening shots
- 12 – on a night picnic
- 13 – the poem fish
- 14 – full moon me
- 15 – Walt Whitman
- 16 – Plum Nelly
- 17 – where do you come from
- 18 – from my grandmother
- 19 – lying to tell the truth
- 20 – snowflakes and secrets
- 21 – listening to our shadow
- 22 – what’s my image
- 23 – coyote and the wild
- 24 – poems and the body
- 25 – poems are alive
- 26 – hi there stars
- 27 – Terra: from dirt to mother earth
- 28 – Paul who breaks pencils
- 29 – the Plains way
- 30 – I dress myself with rain
- 31 – bring me magic
- 32 – Mojo-squeegie-abacus-del-morpho
- 33- skin spinoff
- 34 – listening to Thermolito
- 35 – misfits’ castle of lightning
- 36 – please don’t understand
- 37 – open the window
- 38 – stirring the sky
- 39 – who were you in my dream?
- 40 – collage
- 41 – the center of the house
- 42 – grocery weeping
- 43 – joywriting
- 44 – the image angel
- 45 – the great Magus
- 46 – controlled abandon
- 47 – poem sound and song
- 48 – abracadabra
- 49 – the gingko
- 50 – Home Song
- 51 – fear of poetry
- 52 – dreamsense
- 53 – being visited by words
- 54 – the blue socks
- 55 – bending light
- 56 – apo-ka-tas’-tasis
- 57 – catching myself
- 58 – caterpillar poets
- 59 – a sengsong pot of possibilities
- 60 – the poem bridge
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