Between 2009 and 2015, I published poetry under the pen name Gabriel Gadfly on a now-defunct website and on social media. Those efforts eventually lead to the publication of two poetry collections, Bone Fragments, published in 2011, and Ventricle, Atrium, published in 2012. Both books were published by 1889 Labs Ltd, which has now gone under.
The following collection of poems were originally published under the Gabriel Gadfly pen name. Sadly, this isn’t a complete collection of my work published under that name, as some poems have simply been lost over the years — some were hosted on expired webhosts or hard drives that have long since purged their contents.
- 8 AM, Monday Morning
- A Love To Die For
- A Poet’s Heart
- A Room Full of Lights and Us and God
- A Sound of You
- Acorns
- Adventure Rondeau
- After Homelessness
- After Rain In Fall
- All Blue
- All You Need Is Love
- An Oyster Meets Aphrodite
- Anchoring
- And Myself, Myself
- Anosmia
- Ant Line
- Apaches
- Apollo
- Apple Core, Hourglass
- Apricots
- Arborea
- Archipelago
- Armistice
- Ars Poetica: Davey Jones
- Asphalt
- Babushka the Moth
- Back to Savannah
- Bag of Sorrow
- Bare
- Beautiful Like…
- Bee Eater
- Bigger
- Birdcage
- Birdsong
- Black Goldfish
- Blackout
- Bog
- Bone
- Bottle of Sadness
- Bottles
- Bourbon
- Breaking
- Brierpatch
- Broken People and Whole
- Bucket List
- Buddha in the Garden of Waste
- Build the Soil
- Burn
- Caesarean
- Castor and Pollux and the Siege of Paris
- Cat
- Cave
- Cerulean
- Cetacea
- Cheddar
- Cherita: All Lulls Us Into Sleep
- Cherita: Birds
- Cherita: Harvest
- Cherita: Heart, Heart
- Cherita: Morning
- Cherita: Stars
- Cherita: Your Mouth Holds The Night
- Cherry Stems
- Cicatrice
- Cinder Man
- Cinnamon Birds
- City Mad
- Clamshell
- Cloud Gazer
- College Town Move Out Day
- Commandments
- Companion Plants
- Conflict
- Conifer
- Conjoined / Separated
- Cotton
- County Road 23
- Crevice
- Crush
- Cryptography
- Cutter
- Dacryphilia
- Dandelion Girl
- Daybreak Mortars
- Deep End
- Defenestrated Spuds and Domestic Violence
- Demolitions
- Derelict Girl
- Dragon’s Egg
- Drink The Sea
- Dust Variations
- Earth Heals Herself
- Ecclesia Tree
- Egg Eater
- Electric Ballet
- Elegy
- Estuary
- Exodus
- Failure to Communicate
- Family History
- Famine
- Filaments
- Five Bright Birdsongs
- Floodwater
- Flowers In The Sink
- For Falling Out and For Keeping
- For The City Girl
- For This
- Fossils
- Foxholed
- Freefalling
- Galatea
- Garden Crimes
- Gardener
- Gazing Is Not Enough
- Giantess
- Giftbox
- Glacier
- Go Quietly
- Good Morning
- Grace Meditation
- Hammers and Nails
- Happenstance
- Hazmat
- Heimlich
- Hot Air Balloon
- How To Ask Someone To Let You Love Them
- How To Greet Death
- How To Have A Poet’s Heart
- How To Swallow Swords
- Hunger Hurts
- I Did Not Keep Your Letters
- I Have Put The Red Wheelbarrow To Use
- I Wish I Were A Chipmunk
- Imaginary
- In Absentia
- Inertia
- Ink
- Insides
- It’s Not The Years, Honey, It’s The Mileage
- James Cameron’s “A Love Poem”
- January Crickets
- Kiss
- Kissing Statues
- Kudzu
- Leave Only Footprints
- Lepidoptera Down
- Life and Death and Knowledge
- Life Support
- Like Lemmings Leaping Off A Cliff
- Little Gardens
- Location, Location, Location
- Locomotor
- Lonely Girl in the Sandwich Shop
- Love In The Robopocalypse
- Love Is Jello
- Love Letter To An Astronaut
- Lupercalia
- Makahiya
- Merchantman
- Minnows
- Monogamy
- Monster
- Mosquito Bites
- Mouse Heart
- Mouthfuls
- MRI
- My Favorite Gas Station
- My Harbor-Womb Heart
- My Love For You Is An Ocean
- My Mouth, Your Mouth
- Night
- NO
- Nonverbal
- Not An Hour Ago
- Notebook
- Nudism
- Okay
- Onion Skins
- Oz
- Pathya Vat: Crow Hops
- Photograph
- Pilot Star
- Pipistrellus Pipistrellus
- Plague Doctor
- Planting Flowers
- Plunge
- Poetic Forms
- Postcards
- Powderkeg
- Primate House
- Prometheus Appeals To Zeus
- Promises, Promises
- Radio Silence
- Rainbow
- Raptured
- Rare
- Rattlesnake
- Reckless
- Red Light
- Repairs
- Retard
- Return to Sender
- River Stones
- Rules for a Nightly News Feature on Obesity
- Sand Castles
- Scribblehead
- Sevenling (My Favorite Constellation)
- Sevenling (What I Found In The Earth)
- Shelter
- Shiver
- Skates
- Sleep Study
- Snowstorm
- Soap and Glass and Earthworms
- Solitude
- Someday
- Spice Shop
- Starfruit
- Static Electricity
- Strange Geographies
- Sundown
- Supercell
- Survival
- Susurration and Earthquake
- Teething
- Terracotta
- The Airport Scene
- The Bones of Neruda and a Red Pomegranate
- The Boys of the 39th Come Home
- The Clothes Your Father Gave You
- The Emergency Jar
- The End of Us At Grayton Beach
- The Great Red Mouth, The Tooth
- The Gulf
- The Headline Writer
- The Knot Goblin
- The Leopard and the Moth
- The Lily and the Rug
- The Minotaur
- The Moon, The Stars, The Sun
- The Second Wake I Wait For You
- The Shade Tree
- The Sound of Coffin Nails Pried Up
- The Special Dinner
- The Subtle Violence of Dreaming
- The Sun and Mercury
- The Tabby Cat and the Dormouse
- The Traitor Tongue and the Wellspring Heart
- The Trembling Room
- The Unwanted Spring
- The Ways You Love
- These Are The Colors Of Your Love
- They Almost
- This Bestiary of Us
- This Tiny Thing Sleeps
- Threads
- To Keep The Gloom At Bay
- To The Poet At His Girlfriends’ Office Party
- Today, I Am Godzilla
- Trees of Life
- Untitled
- Untitled 2
- Voyager I and the Blue Planet
- Wanderlust
- Wash
- Wasp
- Wet
- What Loving You Was Like
- What My Heart Wears
- What The Sea Spits Out
- What You Aspire To
- Why I Hate Reading Maps
- Worry Eater
- You Have So Much Wealth In Your Flesh
- You Sleep, I Sleep, I Love You
- Your Face
- Your Grandmother’s Vase
- Your Name In Seven Violences