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Hanging themselves in each other's strings - Dean Young "Acceptance Speech"

Easily identifiable beneath the funny mask - Dean Young "Acceptance Speech"

The grinding of a multiplicity throwing off sparks - Dean Young "Acceptance Speech"

A capsized canoe full of mathematicians - Dean Young "Acceptance Speech"

A bow about to launch the killer astrolabe - Dean Young "Acceptance Speech"

How about climbing a ladder of fire? - Dean Young "Acceptance Speech"

An unwedging at the scapulas scattering birds - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]

Who's spent his life trying to photograph ghosts - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]

A plethora of forces bound and unbinding within us - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]

All the Vatican sparrows killed so he could pray - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]

Which firmly lurched every center towards ruin - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]

Each of us roams our own locked cell of perception - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]

Shake our star-pricked shell apart, cracks radiating out - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]

The paths some thoughts blaze in the brain - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]

A tracing of lightning, fire or blood in the body - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]

Shaking grains against the three wired bones of my inner ear - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]

Two brief blips of wet electricity - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]

The nexus of error that is my thought - Dean Young "Age of Discovery" [Poetry, January 1988]

Reality is approximately 65% if - Dean Young "Belief in Magic" [Poetry July/August 2014]

All rivers are full of sky - Dean Young "Belief in Magic" [Poetry July/August 2014]

A single gem has throbbed in my chest my whole life - Dean Young "Belief in Magic" [Poetry July/August 2014]

Even though this is my second heart - Dean Young "Belief in Magic" [Poetry July/August 2014]

Cut out in pieces and incinerated - Dean Young "Belief in Magic" [Poetry July/August 2014]

Until all you're holding is a curl of ash - Dean Young "Belief in Magic" [Poetry July/August 2014]

Intimate negotiations and sorry confessions - Dean Young "Bird-Shaped Cliff"

Would take word form from excited electrons - Dean Young "Bird-Shaped Cliff"

Riding off into the moonlessly blue chaparral - Dean Young "Bird-Shaped Cliff"

Frescos flake away as sleet holds us in its teeth - Dean Young "Bronzed" [Poetry April 2005]

The crickets who think it's evening all afternoon - Dean Young "Colophon"

Lapped at the hips of too many flowers - Dean Young "Colophon"

Go on hunting, one secret closing, another ensuing - Dean Young "Colophon"

Getting stuck in a puddle of dish soap - Dean Young "Colophon"

Reading far past the last paragraph into the back blank page - Dean Young "Colophon"

Ravening scouts autumnal with hunger beyond any sipping - Dean Young "Colophon"

Beyond the hive's teeming factory's needs - Dean Young "Colophon"

Reddest, softest island of my last planet, last aureola - Dean Young "Colophon"

Each leaf woke in orange outcry - Dean Young "Colophon"

Bodies of fire becoming bodies of air - Dean Young "Colophon"

Pediatrics every morning and toxicology by happy hour - Dean Young "Crash Test Dummies of an Imperfect God" [Poetry Nov. 2011]

The same stars whisking themselves further off - Dean Young "Dear Bob," [Poetry Nov. 2011]

Same chamomile crushed underfoot - Dean Young "Dear Bob," [Poetry Nov. 2011]

In that first dream there was none - Dean Young "Dear Bob," [Poetry Nov. 2011]

Served for our reception in the devastation - Dean Young "Dear Friend" [Poetry Feb. 2006]

Every bird knows only two notes - Dean Young "Dear Friend" [Poetry Feb. 2006]

When your head splits open and the bird flies out - Dean Young "Dear Friend" [Poetry Feb. 2006]

The sea that breathed two times a day - Dean Young "Dear Friend" [Poetry Feb. 2006]

My nightmares are your confetti - Dean Young "Dear Reader," [Poetry Dec. 2004]

Then night is no one's problem - Dean Young "Dear Reader," [Poetry Dec. 2004]

God opening his box of fish-hooks - Dean Young "Dear Reader," [Poetry Dec. 2004]

Heaving kelp at the sunken city's face - Dean Young "Easy as Falling Down Stairs" [Poetry Nov. 2007]

Gladness somersaulting from the eaves - Dean Young "Easy as Falling Down Stairs" [Poetry Nov. 2007]

Some crank in me tightens the whirly-spring - Dean Young "Easy as Falling Down Stairs" [Poetry Nov. 2007]

The unknown's display of emeralds closes in an hour - Dean Young "Easy as Falling Down Stairs" [Poetry Nov. 2007]

The fireworks' formula has changed - Dean Young "Easy as Falling Down Stairs" [Poetry Nov. 2007]

An airplane to connect you to the sky - Dean Young "Elegy on a Toy Piano" [Poetry Oct. 2003]

Connecting you to what can't be grasped - Dean Young "Elegy on a Toy Piano" [Poetry Oct. 2003]

About this, even diamonds do not lie - Dean Young "Elegy on a Toy Piano" [Poetry Oct. 2003]

Naked in his garden insisting on angels - Dean Young "Emerald Spider Between Rose Thorns" [Poetry April 2013]

Coming home with my new heart - Dean Young "Emerald Spider Between Rose Thorns" [Poetry April 2013]

In this rainbow-gored, crickety world - Dean Young "Emerald Spider Between Rose Thorns" [Poetry April 2013]

Singing in the furnace feral and sweet - Dean Young "Emerald Spider Between Rose Thorns" [Poetry April 2013]

To get drunk on a single whiff - Dean Young "Emerald Spider Between Rose Thorns" [Poetry April 2013]

Lie down with lava and rise with snow - Dean Young "Everyday Escapees" [Poetry April 2013]

And aren't we all pedestrians of air? - Dean Young "Everyday Escapees" [Poetry April 2013]

All wrong to turn our backs on the ocean - Dean Young "Everyday Escapees" [Poetry April 2013]

Tapping a peanut to signal a squirrel - Dean Young "Flamenco" [Poetry July/Aug. 2007]

A collection of eternal accidents - Dean Young "Flamenco" [Poetry July/Aug. 2007]

My ghost eating mulberries in a tree - Dean Young "Flamenco" [Poetry July/Aug. 2007]

Trying to poke through a mousehole in the cosmos - Dean Young "Flamenco" [Poetry July/Aug. 2007]

Feeding stray shadows only attracts more shadows - Dean Young "Folklore"

Starve a fever, shatter a glass house - Dean Young "Folklore"

People often mistake thirst for hunger - Dean Young "Folklore"

Both in terms of habitation and rhyme - Dean Young "Folklore"

Always leave yourself time to get lost - Dean Young "Folklore"

Get used to nothing answering back - Dean Young "Folklore"

Muted TVs advertising miracle knives and spot removers - Dean Young "Folklore"

Up here, we make our own darkness - Dean Young "Folklore"

Faces torn and reglued upside-down - Dean Young "Glider" [Poetry Oct. 2003]

Because of its proximity to oblivion - Dean Young "Hammer"

Having so recently come from oblivion itself - Dean Young "Hammer"

Finding hammers by sides of roads, in snow - Dean Young "Hammer"

Dandelion broth instead of duck soup - Dean Young "Handy Guide" [Poetry Nov. 2011]

Minor adjustments in our equations - Dean Young "Handy Guide" [Poetry Nov. 2011]

If it's raw, forge it in fire - Dean Young "Handy Guide" [Poetry Nov. 2011]

The heart of a scarecrow isn't symmetrical - Dean Young "Handy Guide" [Poetry Nov. 2011]

My dragon may be your neurotoxin - Dean Young "Handy Guide" [Poetry Nov. 2011]

Your electrocardiogram may be my fortune cookie - Dean Young "Handy Guide" [Poetry Nov. 2011]

Where he had thrown some of his sadness - Dean Young "He Said Turn Here"

Sadness which sometimes corrodes his friends - Dean Young "He Said Turn Here"

Surrounded by more and more space - Dean Young "He Said Turn Here"

At its core an engine like a bee inside a lily - Dean Young "He Said Turn Here"

The shapes we asked to bent into - Dean Young "Human Lot" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

Wind wants to make me correct something - Dean Young "Human Lot" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

Something needs to be pushed further from the sun - Dean Young "Human Lot" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

The usual calm disaster of getting out of bed - Dean Young "Human Lot" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

This glass sparkle at the end of a dark hall - Dean Young "Human Lot" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

A name to wake into and music to sleep through - Dean Young "Human Lot" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

I believe your betrayals were inadvertent - Dean Young "Human Lot" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

To find out if my heart is unruined - Dean Young "Human Lot" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

Everything a field of energy caused by human projection - Dean Young "I Am But a Traveller in this Land & Know Little of Its Ways"

Surrounds the soccer field of what if - Dean Young "I Am But a Traveller in this Land & Know Little of Its Ways"

Knows the discrepancies between idea and fact - Dean Young "I Am But a Traveller in this Land & Know Little of Its Ways"

Astrologists and Presbyterians agree for different reasons - Dean Young "I Am But a Traveller in this Land & Know Little of Its Ways"

Fall down the stairs with a birthday cake - Dean Young "I Am But a Traveller in this Land & Know Little of Its Ways"

Try to fit a blunderbuss into a laptop - Dean Young "I Am But a Traveller in this Land & Know Little of Its Ways"

Too late to ask Kafka what he thinks - Dean Young "I Am But a Traveller in this Land & Know Little of Its Ways"

A box of ash, a handshake, and the rest is your problem - Dean Young "I Am But a Traveller in this Land & Know Little of Its Ways"

Touches a bush in which birds are singing - Dean Young "I Am But a Traveller in this Land & Know Little of Its Ways"

Useless for gift wrapping and relay races - Dean Young "I Said Yes but I Meant No" [Poetry Oct. 2003]

Then as you venture forth to boil water - Dean Young "I Said Yes but I Meant No" [Poetry Oct. 2003]

Important not to let variance become too extreme - Dean Young "I Said Yes but I Meant No" [Poetry Oct. 2003]

As great storms upon drought-stricken land - Dean Young "I Said Yes but I Meant No" [Poetry Oct. 2003]

Plentiful with opportunities of negative effect - Dean Young "I Said Yes but I Meant No" [Poetry Oct. 2003]

Yet the very same may backfire - Dean Young "I Said Yes but I Meant No" [Poetry Oct. 2003]

An end is always punishment for a beginning - Dean Young "The Infirmament"

A flinty space opens in your head - Dean Young "The Infirmament"

After a long night of laughter and wine - Dean Young "The Infirmament"

Sometimes fire must be punished by light - Dean Young "The Infirmament"

Resembling the terrible things we believe about ourselves - Dean Young "The Infirmament"

Which is how the continents are made and broken - Dean Young "The Infirmament"

Escorting our sentences back and forth - Dean Young "Interference & Delivery" [Poetry, January 1988]

The scrape of electrons in our voices turned small - Dean Young "Interference & Delivery" [Poetry, January 1988]

Energetic fossils of a Big Bang - Dean Young "Interference & Delivery" [Poetry, January 1988]

The lonely woe of quantum mechanics - Dean Young "Interference & Delivery" [Poetry, January 1988]

Impossible to have a reasonable relation with the self - Dean Young "Look at Quintillions Ripen'd & Look at Quintillions Green"

Half libidinous ether, half dirt full of soldiers' blood - Dean Young "Look at Quintillions Ripen'd & Look at Quintillions Green"

A mountain with no roads or roadsigns - Dean Young "Look at Quintillions Ripen'd & Look at Quintillions Green"

Tightrope walkers mending nets - Dean Young "Look at Quintillions Ripen'd & Look at Quintillions Green"

Of never going up and never sliding down - Dean Young "Look at Quintillions Ripen'd & Look at Quintillions Green"

Consumed with light too bright to see by - Dean Young "Look at Quintillions Ripen'd & Look at Quintillions Green"

You can read almost anything about angels - Dean Young "Lucifer"

Pornographic magazines ported into the redwoods - Dean Young "Lucifer"

Turning in the cogs of the clockworks - Dean Young "Lucifer"

The frolicking despair of repeating decimals - Dean Young "Lucifer"

The impurities of darkness sometimes called stars - Dean Young "Lucifer"

Assignations, divorces conducted between rooftops - Dean Young "Lucifer"

Discharged blandishing cardboard signs by the exits - Dean Young "Lucifer"

Coppers and silvers and radiant traces - Dean Young "Lucifer"

There are no transitions, only falls - Dean Young "Lucifer"

Partaking of the glowing exfoliating cleanup - Dean Young "The New Optimism" [Poetry Oct. 2010]

Canvases of crushed lightbulbs and screws in paste - Dean Young "Peach Farm" [Poetry June 2012]

Two more versions of never hearing from someone again - Dean Young "Peach Farm" [Poetry June 2012]

Not just flight from quadratic equations - Dean Young "Peach Farm" [Poetry June 2012]

Everyone wants out of the spider's stomach - Dean Young "Peach Farm" [Poetry June 2012]

Angel of ten dollar bills found in the dryer - Dean Young "Peach Farm" [Poetry June 2012]

Long as you're here, you're one of us - Dean Young "Peach Farm" [Poetry June 2012]

Like a gladiola, its true flower is invisible - Dean Young "Permitted a Meadow" [Poetry Oct. 2017]

A few of the demons dwelling beneath the earth - Dean Young "Permitted a Meadow" [Poetry Oct. 2017]

Any song that never leaves the lungs - Dean Young "Permitted a Meadow" [Poetry Oct. 2017]

All us animals garlanded and belled - Dean Young "Permitted a Meadow" [Poetry Oct. 2017]

And my body isn't even surprised - Dean Young "Quiet Grass, Green Stone"

Waiting for the god under the anthill to speak - Dean Young "Quiet Grass, Green Stone"

Come out of the ocean in their parliamentary regalia - Dean Young "Quiet Grass, Green Stone"

And the jackal-headed god to weigh my heart - Dean Young "Quiet Grass, Green Stone"

In just a few moments pours itself into darkness - Dean Young "Quiet Grass, Green Stone"

If I had to pick between shadows and essences - Dean Young "Romanticism 101" [Poetry July/August 2014]

In this greeny entanglement of breaths - Dean Young "Romanticism 101" [Poetry July/August 2014]

And realized rockabilly would never go away - Dean Young "Romanticism 101" [Poetry July/August 2014]

We were all chasing nothing - Dean Young "Romanticism 101" [Poetry July/August 2014]

Realized repetition could be an ending - Dean Young "Romanticism 101" [Poetry July/August 2014]

What counts as a proper goodbye? - Dean Young "Scarecrow on Fire"

Suspended over a drop into nothingness - Dean Young "Scarecrow on Fire"

What one is stitching is a human heart - Dean Young "Scarecrow on Fire"

Whenever you put your feet on the floor - Dean Young "Scarecrow on Fire"

Some architectural details about Batman's cape - Dean Young "Sean Penn Anti-Ode" [Poetry July 2006]

My books are full of mistakes - Dean Young "Selected Recent and New Errors" [Poetry July/August 2008]

As if correct spelling is what could stop the conveyor belt - Dean Young "Selected Recent and New Errors" [Poetry July/August 2008]

An ignored view of the river pretending to be asleep - Dean Young "Selected Recent and New Errors" [Poetry July/August 2008]

Pretending to have insight into its muddy self - Dean Young "Selected Recent and New Errors" [Poetry July/August 2008]

My errors are even bigger than that - Dean Young "Selected Recent and New Errors" [Poetry July/August 2008]

Longer than a life held together by the twisted silver - Dean Young "Selected Recent and New Errors" [Poetry July/August 2008]

The twisted silver baling wire of deception and stealth - Dean Young "Selected Recent and New Errors" [Poetry July/August 2008]

On mornings when I hope you forget my name - Dean Young "Selected Recent and New Errors" [Poetry July/August 2008]

The high wet weeds that don't have names either - Dean Young "Selected Recent and New Errors" [Poetry July/August 2008]

The strength to eat the eyes first - Dean Young "Shamanism 101"

Tear into the fuse box of the chest and soar away - Dean Young "Shamanism 101"

Cowered under the shadow of my father - Dean Young "Shamanism 101"

Dying indebted not knowing to what - Dean Young "Shamanism 101"

Afraid of what I was co-signing - Dean Young "Shamanism 101"

Charges across the desert cognizant of the futility - Dean Young "Shamanism 101"

To bite the haunch of some passing perfume - Dean Young "Shamanism 101"

Following a trail of one or two molecules - Dean Young "Shamanism 101"

Leaving a trail of one or two molecules - Dean Young "Shamanism 101"

Push ourselves away from this quiet - Dean Young "Sleep Cycle"

Even in our sprees of inattention - Dean Young "Sleep Cycle"

Vaguer divinities blocking your way - Dean Young "Sleep Cycle"

With its need to confess all its botched attempts - Dean Young "Sleep Cycle"

Men playing timed chess with themselves - Dean Young "Sleep Cycle"

Guarantees and warnings that entice us to the brink - Dean Young "Sleep Cycle"

Entice us to the brink of what they warn about - Dean Young "Sleep Cycle"

Immaculate, bereft, deserving to be found - Dean Young "Sleep Cycle"

Years before burning up in the atmosphere - Dean Young "Sneeze Ode" [Poetry July 2006]

The best gods can do for visitation - Dean Young "Sneeze Ode" [Poetry July 2006]

Being sad is a form of exsanguination - Dean Young "So the Grasses Grow" [Poetry April 2005]

A spider quadrupling in my chest - Dean Young "So the Grasses Grow" [Poetry April 2005]

Divert yourself with 19th century Russian novels - Dean Young "So the Grasses Grow" [Poetry April 2005]

By the prints they'll leave in the sand and snow - Dean Young "So the Grasses Grow" [Poetry April 2005]

Without you there would be no beauty - Dean Young "So the Grasses Grow" [Poetry April 2005]

No nitrogen cycle or atmosphere or cantaloupe - Dean Young "So the Grasses Grow" [Poetry April 2005]

See beyond the islands of forever - Dean Young "Son of Fog" [Poetry April 2005]

No competition for brightness - Dean Young "Son of Fog" [Poetry April 2005]

No Byron for your Shelley - Dean Young "Son of Fog" [Poetry April 2005]

No Juno eclipsing your Athena - Dean Young "Son of Fog" [Poetry April 2005]

No bridge statement about bringing unity - Dean Young "Son of Fog" [Poetry April 2005]

All the thought balloons are blank - Dean Young "Son of Fog" [Poetry April 2005]

Seeds in the rattle of mortality - Dean Young "Son of Fog" [Poetry April 2005]

Fog has been blotting paper to my tears - Dean Young "Son of Fog" [Poetry April 2005]

At the edge of a drop that doesn't answer back - Dean Young "Son of Fog" [Poetry April 2005]

The sun goes down on the ruined battlements - Dean Young "Speech Therapy" [Poetry Oct. 2010]

The ugly duckling remained ugly - Dean Young "Speech Therapy" [Poetry Oct. 2010]

The day taking on the sheen of a stone - Dean Young "Speech Therapy" [Poetry Oct. 2010]

Skipped between the breakers jubilant and sunk - Dean Young "Speech Therapy" [Poetry Oct. 2010]

Whoever tuned the radio to rain - Dean Young "Spring Reign"

Who spilled the strong-willed wine - Dean Young "Spring Reign"

Taking a test and running out of time - Dean Young "Spring Reign"

Guilty of crimes we didn't commit - Dean Young "Spring Reign"

Beginning a new life as rot - Dean Young "Spring Reign"

The dial turned to green downpour - Dean Young "Spring Reign"

Who somehow have found a sip of water - Dean Young "To Those of You Alive in the Future" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

Ghosts in a world made brief with flowers - Dean Young "To Those of You Alive in the Future" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

The stung beekeeper gathering honey - Dean Young "To Those of You Alive in the Future" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

Was scoured further from her own mind - Dean Young "To Those of You Alive in the Future" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

Curses torn apart by the large invisible indifference - Dean Young "To Those of You Alive in the Future" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

Tried to hold fire on our tongues - Dean Young "To Those of You Alive in the Future" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

Engagement rings in the pawnshop - Dean Young "To Those of You Alive in the Future" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

Chunks of ice tugged by bickering currents - Dean Young "To Those of You Alive in the Future" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

Pulled from wide infernos of stone - Dean Young "To Those of You Alive in the Future" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

No guidance system wired inside me yet - Dean Young "To Those of You Alive in the Future" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

Others were dark and always silent - Dean Young "To Those of You Alive in the Future" [Poetry Oct. 2009]

What are my frauds but nudged along misunderstandings? - Dean Young "Undertow" [ Poetry Nov. 2007]

Can't believe I ever worried about my betrayals - Dean Young "Undertow" [ Poetry Nov. 2007]

Not the only one suffering an identity crisis - Dean Young "Undertow" [ Poetry Nov. 2007]

To wake shouting in the mansion of the night - Dean Young "Undertow" [ Poetry Nov. 2007]

Kissing all those strangers, forgiving them - Dean Young "Undertow" [ Poetry Nov. 2007]

What a stricken elixir I've become - Dean Young "Undertow" [ Poetry Nov. 2007]

Through its head swim a million fishes - Dean Young "Undertow" [ Poetry Nov. 2007]

Every leash snapped, every contract void - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]

Can sleep into afternoon and still wake soaring - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]

Dream-figments then are gone like breath-prints - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]

Breath-prints on a window, handwriting in snow - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]

Voices hurtling into outer space - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]

Whitman out past Neptune - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]

Dickinson retreating yet getting brighter - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]

Barefoot across hot sand into the sea's hovering - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]

The heart's a useless sliver in a glacier - Dean Young "Winged Purposes" [Poetry Feb. 2009]


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