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Poems

• Before high school:
  • Hurricane -- one of my earliest poems
  • Love -- the beginning of my cinquain phase
  • Snowflake -- diversity
  • Butterfly -- a simile
  • Up Above -- a kite
  • Where Does the Time Go? -- metaphysics and epistemology
  • The Beach -- my go-to image
  • Autumn -- without having ever seen an autumn
  • St. Thomas -- an acrostic
  • My Days -- still not a city person
  • Happiness -- I like being with you
  • Wave -- gallery view
  • My Sun -- rain or shine
  • As One -- we and me
• High school:
  • Mahler -- Symphony No. 2
  • Hands -- young love
  • America -- the varied colors
  • The Raisin -- with apologies to Edgar Allan Poe
  • Carver -- Spoon River style
• College:
  • Sixteen -- my page
  • Words on a Page -- looking around
  • The Pink -- making fun of bad coffeehouse poetry
  • Alone -- Berkeley-esque
  • Months Ago -- in the moonlight
  • From Warm Hands -- inspired by pot holders
  • Stacks of Books -- tracing years
  • Sands -- footsteps in time
  • Unpacking -- finding myself
  • Ocean's Edge -- night swimming
  • Wings -- at a crossroads
  • Seasoned -- from the tropics to New England and back
  • Sweets -- sweet memories
  • Geode -- inside
  • Fates -- friendship
  • Programmed -- college
  • Paintbox -- colors
  • Castle -- of sand
  • Ascending and Descending -- influenced by Escher and Penrose
  • This Poem Ends -- endings can be okay
• After college:
  • Continental Drift -- geology as poetry
  • jabberwocky.py -- Python as poetry
  • Vision -- sometimes we see better with guidance
  • Multitudes -- office move number 7
  • Sunday Morning -- thoughts while swimming
  • Prescription -- just what the doctor ordered
  • (P)ermanence -- surVIvors
  • Dollhouse -- playing house