Sample poems

Hysterion: Surrealist Love Poems

  • “Advertisement on Fourth Page”
  • “Business Is Business”
  • “Come to Hear the Concert”

Second Hysterion

  • “We Can Have a Grand Good Time in the Grove”
  • “Uncle Jake, the Miller”
  • “Meeting of Distinguished Scientists”

Compleat Hysterion

  • “Approved Jawbone”
  • “Thus Are We, Poor Thirsty Souls”
  • “Suddenly Prostrated”

Zombie Chronicles

World’s End

  • “The Smoke at Knappton”
  • “Truth Beginning to Dawn”
  • “Having Concluded to Remain in Business”

No End in Sight

  • “Poetical Exploit”
  • “O Death, We’ve Been Long Together”
  • “Birthday Celebration”
their coffins. We need enterprising settlers

Neverending

  • “What a Lot of One-eyed Women”
  • “In the Ashes of Adversity”
  • “So Endeth the Farce”

The Diary of Madame Rentz

The Diary of Madame Rentz

  • “That Wife of Mine”
  • “An Answer to the Dance of Death”
  • “Words of Abuse”

Compendium of Rivals

  • “Beauty Is No Cheap Humbug”
  • “Boiled Lobster This Season”
  • “Debris of a Blast Blown Out”

Cyberpunk 1876

Cyberpunk 1876

  • “Scenes of the Most Revolting Character”
  • “Daily Contemporaries”
  • “Those Allowed to Remain In Situ

Infernal Celeste

  • “Faculties and Good Looks”
  • “What Pluck and Perseverance”
  • “Lacerating Hearts as It Goes”

Gudau’s Moon-eyed Girls

  • “Heaven’s Celestial Sponge”
  • “Having a Pretty Good Time”
  • “An Ominous Lick to Her Chops”

Approved Jawbone

Approved Jawbone

  • “Dear, Darling Mimmie”
  • “What Is Known as the Middle Sands”
  • “Thank God, I Am Well Now”

Miscellaneous

Genevieve’s Back

  • “Donkey Masquerade”
  • “Saint Valentine’s Day”
  • “Another Plate of Pudding”

Diktat Nic-nacs: A Collection

  • “Words as True as Sublime”
  • “His Accidency”
  • “Now So Persevering”