104 Poems

“Taken Care Of” courtesy of Norfolk-based artist, Nicola Slattery. View her enchanting work at www.nicolaslattery.com

The 2×52 project developed in April 2013 when I committed to posting two poems a week for a year. I completed my self-made creative challenge this April when I revealed the 104th poem. Next month (June 2014), all the poems will be available in a book at my Blurb bookstore. In the meantime, here are the 104=2×52 poems listed in all their glory! And for your convenience, so that you can click on the titles that pique your interest. Enjoy!

1. On a rock amongst rocks
2. Things of the Heart, Told in Quiet #1
3. £299 from Strand
4. A Thousand Scientific Facts about the Sea
5. Nice Words #1
6. Benefactor of the Blind
7. On the Way to Westminster
8. Solutrean Hypothesis
9. I don’t work for you (or Modern Frustrations)
10. red herring
11. Tarantella (two versions)
12. Conversation
13. Pakistan’s Gold
14. 29^oC
15. An arrangement of strangers
16. Recycled
17. Packed Lunches
18. Tightly Sealed
19. Another Summer’s Day
20. Look At
21. Hairpin (a short poem)
22. A definition, notably for the cloud-dwelling artists
23. Instructions
24. Scherzo: Allegro before the Finale
25. Impatience
26. Screens
27. Leo’s Entries
28. From a Stone
29. Autumn’s ripened harvest store
30. The Character Building
31. An autumn evening in
32. Preceding seafaring that was not to transpire
33. The Home Commute
34. On the declaration of the first day of the Year of Our Light
35. What we were all thinking
36. Emulation
37. Genuine
38. Stuck
39. An address from a lectern
40. Her magical box
41. Sun Doves
42. At the right age
43. Just Punishment
44. Every morning, because it’s wonderful
45. Is it worth it?
46. A Bequest of Wonder
47. The Benefits of 320 Kicks
48. I do. Do you?
49. Five Consequences of Repeated Actions
50. To the Valleys
51. supreme ultimate
52. Operations Meeting, El Dorado
53. Without realising it, the postman leaves a poem
54. Another drop in this week before Christmas
55. A quiet night preludes
56. Let them eat
57. I learnt
58. A New Room
59. Philip’s Log: Entries about my moonlit sylph
60. Pairings
61. Conscripted
62. Bursting Art
63. Afloat
64. Would you ever live in Heather Green?
65. London’s Molten Hour
66. Two poems about grey
67. My friend Ellen
68. Nice words of the moment (from autumn)
69. Today
70. Outpourings
71. She’d read it in books
72. Tube sketch (one of a few)
73. St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden
74. Near Liverpool Street, under scaffolding
75. On the occasion of a dinner party in Kennington
76. Tunnel Days
77. London. Is it worth it?
78. At the moment: £2
79. the currency of sugar
80. High-end Liquids
81. Glomerulonephritis
82. Dying is probably easier than this
83. The Age Show
84. Nice words #2
85. How do you make a dream come true?
86. Do engineers dream?
87. Appropriate Recompense
88. It’s complicated
89. Every Sign of the Zodiac
90. Saying it plainly
91. The Brothers Three
92. This morning’s request
93. Recipe
94. Kindly exit
95. In the ocean one night
96. Degas’s Business Card
97. A small heart panics
98. Interior holdings
99. Reviewing the pursuit
100. Absorbed
101. Nearing the End
102. Different Rides
103. Spring Wants
104. Escucha