Poems by M. A. Griffiths

	Title	First Line	Date	Latest Source	Notes
1	12	copper wire (coiled)	2001-10-12	Posted to private list; copy provided by Christina Fletcher
2	12 Days	On the twelfth day of Christmas	2001-12-23	Posted to Jiscmail
3	3 Mormons or Whatever	I was standing on a wide plain scoured	2004-06-08	Posted to Jiscmail
4	Ada and Evan	Before stereotypes had time to harden	2002-08-26	Posted to Burgundy	Posted for a funny-poem challenge. (RMK)
5	Advertising Arsenic	The image that sticks with me is Emma stuffing	2006-12-24	Posted to Jiscmail
6	Advice for a Wood Maiden	Walk softly on leaf-mould and do not crush	2005-05-01	Posted to Jiscmail
7	Advice from Mother Goose	Today we'll talk of princes, pets, it's story time	2007-03-05	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
8	After	He thought about it for years	2002-03-10	Posted to Jiscmail
9	After Troy, after Tripoli	My sisters howled like Cerberus with all three throats.	2006-10-30	Emailed to Rose
10	Aftermath	Enough. I have no stomach to defame	2005-06-30	Entered in the Nemerov competition	This sonnet was a finalist in the 2005 Sonnet Bake-off at Eratosphere. In the Eratosphere thread, Maz says she sent the wrong version to the Bake-off. I mailed her entry to the Nemerov contest in the fall of 2005, the year Charles Martin was judge, so that was probably the final version. (RMK)
11	Afters	Unpeel me slowly, like the fruit	2005-07-01	Published in millers pond
12	Aftershock	No man is an island,	2002-08-30	Workshopped at PoemsPlace
13	Alchemist’s Omelette, The	If he traces three more arcs, he will make a cat―	2006-05-06	Posted to Jiscmail
14	American in Kilburn, An	The smoke threatens as you enter.	2003-03-08	Workshopped at Burgundy
15	Angel of Mons	The Angel of Mons		Published in Worm 9
16	Angel of the Bottle, The	I found the plastic bottle	2001-08-04	Posted to Jiscmail
17	Annie	Annie went to work	2001-08-11	Posted to Jiscmail
18	Annie and Dromida	He never used a cup	2002-02-26	Posted to Jiscmail
19	Apples	Five apples, red and green,		Published in Worm 1
20	Aquarium	Remembering what never happened,	2006-03-09	Private copy provided by BJ Preston	I’m thinking “squarm” is a brilliant invention, not a typo. (RMK)
21	Archaeology	Chink-chink, clunk-clunk, there's no escape.	2003-08-31	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	One of many poems about poets, artists and scholars, including: POETRY: "Dear Reader", "Wisdom from the Butt", "To Tim", "untitled--Hedgehog-hair, and just one sandal", "Writer's Block", "untitled--fucking fuck haiku", "Burden", "Lies", "Casting Pearls", "Manifesto", "Prose or Poetry: A Philological Investigation", "A Sort of Ode for the Poetry Lady", "La La Land", "The Four-Eyed Git Addresses Poets", "A Poem by the Green-Eyed Monster", "The Poet's Fall", "Obligatory Autumn Poem", "Grain", "Water Wings", "The Poet's Dam", "On Philip Larkin"; ART: "For Spike Milligan", "Drama Class", "Rembrandt's Angel", "The Wall Behind the Paintings", "Painting in the Garden", "Haiku blues", "Frontispiece", "Drawing from Life", "Lepidoptera", which leads in nicely to the poems about SCHOLARS: "In the translation", "The Biographer", "Archaeology". Perhaps also the Jerome poems, "Party Piece", "Studying Savonarola". But I'd put "The "My Life with a Latin Professor" with the sci fi/fantasy poems; "The Drawing Lesson" with the gender/power poems; "Painting the Ceiling" with the theological poems; "Butterfly Bawl" and "Costanza Carved" with the gender/power poems. (JAS)
22	Archery	I think you should have stayed alive,	2004-04-15	Posted to Jiscmail
23	Ariadne’s Daughters	Nasty girls make mouth music. They fist the air	2005-10-04	Posted to Jiscmail
24	Atlantis	We have lingered in the chambers	2002-02-10	Posted to Jiscmail
25	Bang	Last night they dropped	2003-03-03	Posted to Jiscmail	Missing period at the end could be intentional. (RMK)
26	Bard Cheese	Last night in dreams I left my love abed	2004-02-15	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	This was composed for a contest on the Gazebo, which Maz won. (I remember because I entered too.) The challenge was to "Try to write a sonnet ‘to your love’ in the style of The Bard of Avon. Gushing is OK, in pursuit of higher glory." (RMK)
27	Bast	She has this sense sometimes	2003-08-16	Posted to Jiscmail
28	Bateleur, The	She was returning to the gauntlet when	2004-03-22	Finalist in the 2004 Eratosphere Sonnet Bake-off
29	Beast	I'll take the beast out for a walk, beware	2002-08-29	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
30	Bed Room	When his father left	2002-05-05	Posted to Jiscmail
31	Beelines	Out of the drowsy singing vessel	2007-02-25	Final version provided by David Adkins
32	Before	She thinks of it as a small cauliflower, pale and pink-threaded	2007-01-04	Posted to Jiscmail
33	Bellerophon Before Breakfast	I am heaving my reluctant flesh around with me	2004-04-02	Posted to Jiscmail
34	Beloved	He held the Beloved carefully,	2005-09-25	Published in Mind Mutations anthology
35	Bereavement: A Survey from Apollyon	A) Did you hear old laughter in the sky?	2004-10-02	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
36	Between the Lines	Darling, I do not know you but unsolicited,	2007-03-22	Posted to Jiscmail
37	Biographer, The	How hard it is to write of death, when Death	2003-09-28	Posted to Jiscmail	In the Sonnet Central thread for this poem, Maz explained, “I wrote it after reading a biography, and then realising the author had been dying when he wrote it.” Poems about poets, artists and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
38	Birdroom	somewhere in this room	2001-07-01	Published in The Poetry Kit	One of many poems about dead animals: "A Sudden Sparrow", "birdroom", "Fer Blossom", "Five cans of cat food", "Sirius", "Great heart," "Not much", "Listening to the Dog", "Throwaway lines", "Shackleton's Dogs", "Tantivvy", "Vix the Victim". (JAS)
39	Black Britain	Seventy percent of the clothes here	2003-04-16	Posted to Jiscmail
40	Black Ribbons	Today they put black ribbons on the trains.	2004-03-12	Posted to Jiscmail
41	Blue Geranium, The	Enchanted by the picture on the label,	2003-03-19	Posted to Burgundy	Posted for a challenge: "Write a sonnet (or combination of sonnets) that is not in pent or tet, not iambic, that is not 14 lines, and yet somehow satisfies a form." This one came in second. (RMK)
42	Booby Trap	That roar should be diminished by long years	2007-05-03	Workshopped at Eratosphere
43	Breaking the Habit	Helen always loved her son.	2002-05-06	Posted to Jiscmail
44	Burden	I am so happy with my words,	2002-09-25	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
45	Butterfly Bawl	This Pinkerton's a bearded porcine prig	2003-04-17	Posted to Jiscmail	The Jiscmail post says, "(This is specially for Christina, who I know also has a blub at 'One Fine Day'.)" (RMK) A gender/power poem rather than an art poem, in my opinion. (JAS)
46	Calling the Roll	As another full year ends,	2005-06-25	Noted on the Gazebo
47	Carnival	Through unmarked years of tables, chairs and chests,	2003-06-11	Posted to Jiscmail
48	Carrier	My dog is a carrier, not of disease,	2003-01-23	Posted to Jiscmail
49	Casting Pearls	As Shakespeare wrote, forsooth, so shall I write.	2004-04-09	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	Poems about poets, artists and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
50	Catching	3 am finds him at the fridge again,	2004-09-07	Posted to Jiscmail
51	Chester Arnessy explains religion	Jimmy Bole had a bad eye from the war. The iris	2006-01-01	Posted to Jiscmail
52	Christopher Robin Muses on Religion	Sometimes I don't like you, God.	2004-01-08	Posted to Jiscmail
53	Christus Sissifactus	I knew his toes were pedicured, his feet	2002-10-21	Posted to Jiscmail
54	Chrysalis	Do not stand by a grey graveside	2002-12-09	Posted to Burgundy	Posted for a challenge (theme was death). (RMK)
55	Church Mice	In the nave and aisles	2002-10-19	Workshopped at Burgundy
56	Cinquain, A	brown thrush	2001-07-01	Published in The Poetry Kit
57	City of Departing Angels	They stand on the corners,	2007-02-25	Private copy provided by Rose Kelleher	She was searching for this poem. Originally I think she posted this to the Gazebo, but I didn’t save the thread. (RMK)
58	Civet Instructs Her Kits, The	I will tell you how he forged the wind	2005-05-10	Posted to Jiscmail	Very similar in theme to "Shedding a Little Light on Light". (JAS)
59	Clerihew, A	When Aphrodite	2002-08-16	Published in Worm 16
60	Clogs	The Queen Mum's gorn and popped her clogs;	2002-03-31	Posted to Jiscmail
61	Colonel Blimp Addresses the Troops	We’ll send you to a hostile place	2004-05-31	Workshopped at Burgundy
62	Concubine’s Charm, The	It is a silver ball, a sphere	2004-01-16	Posted to Jiscmail
63	Consuming Angel, The	My angel is shaped from clouds, a purl	2005-07-01	Published in millers pond	According to Gary Blankenship, it appeared in Mindfire Renewed in "summer or fall of 2004". This one appeared in Worm 25 when I was a guest editor. Without knowing whose it was, I selected this poem as my Editor’s Choice for the issue, writing, “This delights me in all the usual ways: imaginative imagery, skillful sonics that make it a pleasure to read aloud. But beyond that, this poem is good in a way that can't be achieved by elbow grease alone; it's got an inexplicable, kooky magic, as if smiled on by angels. (Angels with pockets full of fish, of course.)” We were both surprised (and a little embarrassed, I think) by the coincidence, since Maz was the editor. Soon after that she stopped submitting her own poems to Worm - but for the record, the ones she did submit had to get past the guest editors, who were reading blind. (RMK)
64	Conversation with the Dark, A	So tired of it, you bastard, tired of waiting,	2006-09-14	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
65	Corner Shop, The	They went on Hajj this year. She was determined.	2004-07-05	Posted to Jiscmail
66	Correspondents’ Song, The	Come friendly bombs and drop on us -	2003-04-07	Workshopped at Burgundy
67	Costanza Carved	Of course, you packed the bloody bust away:	2007-09-07	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	In the Sonnet Central thread, Maz wrote, “I'm surprised the story isn't better known, as it was a horrible revenge that Bernini took. The servant who attacked Costanza was jailed, and poor Costanza was thrown into jail too, on charges of fornication and adultery, but Bernini basically got off scot free because he was the Pope's favourite.” I'd put this in the gender/power group, rather than in the group of poems about poets, artists, and scholars. (JAS)
68	Countdown	Her doctor prescribes calcium tablets	2003-02-01	Posted to Jiscmail
69	Crawlspace	My house has an extra storey,	2004-05-24	Posted to Jiscmail
70	Curves	She hates being the second wife, not that she admits it	2005-04-06	Posted to Jiscmail
71	Cutlet, Mince of Denmark	What fowl noisette's abroad this night? I walk	2004-09-25	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	"Orphelia" might be a pun, not a typo. (JAS) Or just spelled that way because it’s funny. (RMK)
72	Dancing Bride, The	When I was six, and dainty-footed, my parents sold me	2008-08-02	Published in AAP interview
73	Daughters	A pedlar comes to our gate, laden	2005-08-12	Posted to Jiscmail
74	Dead Zone, The	Il Duce dangling like a hog,	2003-07-24	Posted to Jiscmail
75	Dear Reader	If you chance upon this book,	2006-10-18	Workshopped at Capriole	File provided by Don Zirilli, the site admin. (RMK) Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
76	Death Abroad	The phone is ringing late. My stomach tingles	2006-11-04	Workshopped at Eratosphere
77	Death Replies	Dear Dean, I wonder you should think me proud.	2003-10-09	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	"Death and the Donkey" and "Death Replies" belong together thematically. (JAS)
78	Death Scene	Rehearsing in his head what he will see,	2002-11-05	Posted to Jiscmail
79	Death and the Donkey	'Donne's piece on Death? Well, naturally,	2003-06-20	Posted to Jiscmail	"Death and the Donkey" and "Death Replies" belong together thematically. (JAS)
80	December 28	Father, can I see you	2002-01-26	Posted to Jiscmail
81	Demon Lover	I sensed you were a follower of Set -	2003-10-15	Published in Worm 24	In the Sonnet Central thread for this poem, Maz wrote, “I'm not sure if this is a cultural thing, but in the UK we 'top and tail' vegetables like runner beans. I was using it as a double entendre, of course...” (RMK)
82	Descartes for the 21st Century	Man:	2002-01-16	Posted to Jiscmail
83	Ding Dong Bell	Great Bast, today she pulled out all the stops,	2002-07-20	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
84	Drama Class (intermediate)	Cesare claps his hands, declares that today we will be doing horses.	2006-04-11	Private copy provided by BJ Preston	Poems about artists and scholars: see note under "Archaeology". (JAS)
85	Drawing Lesson, The	Outside the Master’s fine stone house,		Private copy provided by Rose Kelleher	More of a gender/power-themed poem than an art-themed poem. (JAS)
86	Drawing from Life	Two apples and a peach. The bruised pear	2002-01-21	Posted to private list; copy provided by Christina Fletcher	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
87	Dreaming in the Batmobile	Over Venice, he starts to drowse.	2005-02-14	Posted to Jiscmail
88	Drips from Psyche’s Lamp	Tell me you’re blind at night and I’ll believe you.	2008-04-13	Workshopped at Eratosphere
89	Drowning Gypsy, The	Flamboyant	2001-07-01	Published in The Poetry Kit
90	Duke A-Hunting, The	Today we step out for his sport and pleasure	2005-03-14	Finalist in the 2005 Eratosphere Sonnet Bake-off	See “Raptors.” (RMK)
91	Dying of the Day, The	Above his head the helicopter blades	2002-07-29	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
92	Ego	A shamanistic friend tells me solemnly	2003-01-18	Posted to Jiscmail
93	Egypt	I am dying, Egypt, dying	2001-07-01	Published in The Poetry Kit
94	Elaine: suicide bomber	But Lancelot mused a little space	2006-10-18	Workshopped at Capriole	File provided by Don Zirilli, the site admin. (RMK) This poem might help provide context for "Beloved", which is also about a suicide bomber. (JAS)
95	Elements, The	There is a point in the sea-swell	2002-11-29	Workshopped at Burgundy	This looks like a very early draft of "Grounding". Since it’s so different I’ll include it as a separate entry. (RMK)
96	Emily abandons her breasts	Emily felt an old brass ring tightening	2003-09-23	Published in Worm 23
97	Europa	When I first came to the paddock bar,	2002-11-12	Workshopped at Burgundy
98	Ex-Romantic, The	How do I hate you? Let me count the ways:	2003-10-19	Posted to Jiscmail
99	Exchange, The	The telephone is intimate at times	2003-06-02	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
100	Expectations	Estella buried Pip	2003-12-17	Posted to Jiscmail
101	Eye rhyme	I'll clone myself. I've got the DNA.	2002-09-26	Posted to Jiscmail
102	Eyelids of Langerhans, The	A scan reveals landscapes. Tribes move	2005-05-31	Posted to Jiscmail
103	Fairytale	Did you ever believe that	2001-08-15	Posted to private list; copy provided by Christina Fletcher
104	Falling	In the library,		Published in Worm 11
105	Family Feeling	So Bobby has the case. The trouble is	2007-03-20	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	"Family Feeling" and "My father and The Sopranos" belong together thematically, in my opinion. (JAS)
106	Fer Blossom	Tha’s not allowed ta bury pigs, tha knows.	2005-09-01	Published in Folly	Poems about dead animals: see list under "birdroom". (JAS)
107	First Woman, The	As Lilith prowls her realm, the night yields stars	2004-09-20	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	In the Sonnet Central thread for this poem, Maz wrote, “What I like about the sonnet is its versality -often people play with the form, shortening it, lengthening it, removing metre or rhyme etc, but I think so much can be done within the given form - it lends itself to so may subjects and voices.” (RMK)
108	First time father	Just before Janice had the kid	2002-11-20	Posted to Jiscmail
109	Firstborn	The Fetch farm wife keeps half a field of bees	2007-03-08	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	Striking similarities with "Small Sister Mary" and "Witch"--these three might form a set. (JAS)
110	Five Fingers	Lord, they say I have one soul	2001-07-01	Published in The Poetry Kit
111	Five cans of catfood	Five cans of catfood on a kitchen shelf:	2002-09-21	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about dead animals: see list at "birdroom". (JAS)
112	For Earth: Christmas 2002	Looking on the world at large,	2002-12-25	Workshopped at PFFA
113	For Sarah	Skintight and shiny, that's the fashion now.	2003-07-04	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	At the top of the Sonnet Central thread, Maz was careful to note, “The bonnet of a car is called the hood in the USA.” (RMK)
114	For Spike Milligan	Ah, Spike, for prince or goon,	2002-02-27	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
115	For the Fallen	After the day,	2002-09-11	Posted to Jiscmail
116	Four-eyed Git Addresses Poets, The	I wish you would not write poems On Poetry,	2006-01-16	Private copy provided by BJ Preston	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
117	Frontispiece	With a stroke of blue,a stroke of green	2002-04-24	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
118	Garden Birds	A wren outside my window	2004-01-07	Posted to Jiscmail
119	Gateway	he hoped that she would ask him	2004-07-20	Posted to Jiscmail
120	Ghost of Icarus, The	The old man sits alone again tonight	2006-06-04	Workshopped at Eratosphere
121	Gone Before	Please don't think I'll laugh. I've been there too;	2003-04-23	Posted to private list; copy provided by Christina Fletcher	This poem was posted earlier to Sonnet Central under the title, “The Lost World.” (RMK)
122	Grain	I think of Hulme	2002-01-23	Posted to Jiscmail
123	Gran and the bedbugs	Gran told me that she stayed	2002-10-23	Posted to Jiscmail
124	Great heart	When your great heart	2002-02-22	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about dead animals: see list under "birdroom". (JAS)
125	Grey imp	The grey imp on my shoulder	2002-02-06	Posted to Jiscmail
126	Grounding	When the hull grated against an island,	2004-01-15	Published in Worm 26
127	Growing up with animals	I was an awkward child, always asking	2004-02-09	Posted to Jiscmail
128	Gut Reaction	Red in the bowl again, bright shocking spots,	2003-04-01	Posted to Jiscmail
129	Haemorrhage	She was always a good little girl.	2002-04-27	Posted to Jiscmail
130	Haiku blues	watercolour scenes	2003-04-30	Posted to Burgundy	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
131	Hairy Story	Possessing prehensile toes, I can understand	2006-10-05	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
132	Hands on	It started with the fingers -	2003-01-27	Posted to Jiscmail
133	Here you lie	Here you lie, framed by lilies.	2002-11-13	Posted to Jiscmail
134	Hippolyta on a Field of Linen	I sit between his thighs and mark the length	2005-07-19	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
135	Holes in the News	They put me in a hole and left me	2006-11-01	Published in the Shit Creek Review
136	Horology as a speculative science	Unfortunately the big ash clock in the hall strikes	2006-06-13	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
137	Horseman, The	Her eyes are bleached by disappointment;	2002-11-25	Posted to Jiscmail
138	Host of Darius, The	You, who were a soldier	2001-11-26	Posted to Jiscmail
139	How things change	Things were always quiet round here.	2001-09-29	Posted to Jiscmail
140	If the ocean is like light	both wave and particle, if salmon leap from turquoise point	2007-01-05	Workshopped at Capriole; copy provided by Don Zirilli, the site admin
141	In Foreign Fields	Crossed out in white, unwilling,	2007-07-23	Published in Lilt
142	In hell	in hell they turned me inside out		Published in Worm 10
143	In the translation	Professor Lieberman	2002-09-08	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
144	Internal Memo	Dear Stomach,	2007-03-23	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
145	Iris	she rises upright, sheds	2001-11-18	Posted to Jiscmail
146	Jack and the Radioactive Boy Scout	Jack is set to save the world, or so	2005-02-15	Posted to Jiscmail
147	Jack-in-the-Books	He showed rare tenderness, a careful touch,	2003-07-23	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	In the Sonnet Central thread for this poem, Maz wrote, “Yes, it's Casanova...The heartless game took place in England, where Casanova met a woman he calls the Charpillon, who teased him cruelly, driving him to the point that he put a knife to her throat. (RMK)
148	Jerome and a Theory of Nails	Jerome is discussing his mediaeval site, where many nails	2005-11-01	Published in Stirring	The three Jerome poems, "Party Piece", and "Studying Savonarola" are very similar in flavor—perhaps somehow akin to each other. (JAS)
149	Jerome and a Theory of Regression	Some people are obsessed about previous lives	2005-10-01	Posted to Jiscmail	See note under "Jerome and a Theory of Nails". (JAS)
150	Jerome and a Theory of Stimulation	Jerome grinds Serra Nerga beans and spoons fragrant heaps	2005-10-12	Posted to Jiscmail	See note under "Jerome and a Theory of Nails". (JAS)
151	Judas as a General Theory	Like--the friend you thought was your best friend but	2007-04-10	Workshopped at Eratosphere
152	Jungular	A leopard leaps the space between	2004-04-28	Posted to Jiscmail
153	Keep: a mirror form, the	the keep,	2003-04-22	Published in Worm 20
154	Kelpie	The head is always a horse’s head, heaved huge against your own.	2006-10-28	Workshopped at Eratosphere	Companion piece to "The Silkie"? (JAS)
155	Knot	This poem is not about Death,	2003-08-08	Posted to Jiscmail
156	La La Land	Come and live in La La Land	2007-10-01	Published on COFTOP	Date is an estimate from Mary Meriam, the site owner. (RMK) Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
157	Last Orders - the Movie	I’m ordering a Hollywood decline.	2005-07-01	Published in millers pond	Also published in Crescent Moon Journal, date unknown. (RMK)
158	Laura’s Feet	I love Laura's feet	2002-03-04	Published in Worm 15
159	Lavender	His flesh is cartography,	2003-01-12	Posted to Jiscmail
160	Lepidoptera	He paints butterflies and moths	2002-04-05	Posted to private list; copy provided by Christina Fletcher
161	Lies	Perhaps it's true, as Twain implies,	2002-08-20	Private copy provided by BJ Preston	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
162	Like this	Like this: a grey-eyed girl	2002-10-28	Posted to Jiscmail
163	Lilah		2009-02-01	Workshopped at the Gazebo	Date is an estimate. In the Eratosphere tribute thread for Maz, Petra Norr wrote, “About six months ago Maz posted a poem at the Gazebo. It was the last poem I saw her post and it was just before the Gazebo crashed. I'm pretty sure the poem was called ‘Lilah’. It was one of her ‘story poems’ -- that's how I thought of them. “Lilah was living in a tent, I think. It was in an earlier time period. There was an oil lamp in the tent...and Lilah's basket in the corner. There was something in the basket; Lilah had been out gathering or cutting herbs....there were scissors in the basket, though it might have been a knife. I remember Lilah picked up the scissors and suddenly cut off all her long, hair, so she had no hair left at all. Then she went outdoors -- I picture it as night -- and she cast the hair into the fire. Then Lilah went back into the tent and picked up a polished bowl. She could see her reflection in the bowl. She could see her small head, almost skull-like -- that was how the poem ended...”
164	Listening to the Dog	My dog is teaching me to die. He explains that humans	2004-08-29	Posted to Jiscmail
165	Little Princess, The	Constantia lives in interesting times.	2004-08-10	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
166	Little Town	Bethlehem is blockaded,	2002-04-03	Posted to Jiscmail
167	Livia’s Eagle	When great Augustus croaked, Rome yearned to see	2007-10-15	Workshopped at Eratosphere
168	Longing	In the morning, love, I yearned for you	2003-06-22	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
169	Lorenzo to his Lady	When Isabella found her lover's head	2002-08-11	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
170	Lucifer on the news	You tell me the earth is bleeding -	2003-01-05	Posted to Jiscmail
171	Lying Together	No doubt I seem serene and well content	2003-08-03	Workshopped at Burgundy
172	M Theory	in the Eleventh dimension	2002-02-20	Posted to Jiscmail
173	Manifesto	If you can read this, please step back. It's clear	2002-09-15	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
174	Marsyas	My song was ripped and flayed	2002-09-21	Workshopped at Sonnet Central (Not Sonnets)
175	Martha in the Morning	Sweetheart, help me through this day.	2004-11-13	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
176	Meg Merrythought the Milkmaid	Meg flirts her skirts as she sells Guernsey milk.	2004-06-20	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
177	Megaera in the Cocktail Hour	She is standing with the dark-eyed man	2002-12-19	Published in Worm 17
178	Memento Mori	A white spider-husk on a torn web.	2005-12-06	Posted to Jiscmail
179	Mermaiden	She sits on an pearled imperial rock,	2003-04-04	Posted to Jiscmail
180	Motorbike	In saw in a Hollywood film	2002-01-14	Published in Worm 14
181	Mrs Buggins Considers The Big One	I worry sometimes how it will be after	2006-04-01	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
182	Mudlarks	They step down the slippery stone to the dark river flats.		Private copy provided by David Adkins
183	Multi-tracking	Professor Dwight is bright, all smiles today;	2004-02-29	Posted to Jiscmail
184	Mushroom Effect, The	Isn't it strange, my husband said, that heliotrope	2007-02-08	Posted to Jiscmail
185	My Life With a Latin Professor	Lorenzo has been taken by aliens again.	2006-05-04	Second place in the Balticon 40 Poetry Contest	Date of contest unknown, but Last-Modified date of PDF is 5/4/06. (RMK)
186	My father and The Sopranos	My father would have liked The Sopranos.	2002-11-10	Posted to Jiscmail
187	Naming of Parties	How should I introduce you now? Um erm,	2004-01-08	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
188	Namu’s Nath	One night the blood-red gem fell from her nose.	2002-10-04	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	I’m sure I remember seeing this at the Gazebo more recently than ‘02. (RMK)
189	Night Emile’s Mistress Turned into a Cat, The	She raised one arm above her head.	2003-07-26	Published in Worm 22
190	Nighthouse	when I broke into the nighthouse	2001-09-09	Published in Worm 13	Worm 13 was posted to Jiscmail on 9/9/01. (RMK)
191	No Fear	A fucking big dog, it lurks in my front garden,	2006-12-22	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
192	No Shit	After seven beers and a chicken biryana	2003-12-11	Posted to Jiscmail
193	No place like home	where you were cradled, rocked, where your soles first rolled on grass, on stones,	2006-11-09	Posted to Lyres forum at Capriole
194	Noli Me Tangere	At first he wore a labourer's hat, with shovel brim, but he threw it	2008-05-06	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
195	Not Much	I didn't ask you for much - only to stay with me and to stay strong	2004-07-03	Workshopped at Burgundy	Poems about dead animals: see list under "birdroom". (JAS)
196	Number 30	On the road to sunny Boscombe,	2002-07-31	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
197	Nursery Rhyme	Into my childhood attic,	2002-09-05	Workshopped at Sonnet Central (Not Sonnets)
198	Nuttin’ to Do With Marvell	If I had trees enough, and time,	2006-09-27	Posted to Lyres forum at Capriole
199	Obligatory Autumn Poem, The	Leaves browning, crimsoning, yellowing	2006-11-26	Private copy provided by BJ Preston	Poems about poets, artists and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
200	Ode to Ozzie	Poor Ozzie's only 52	2003-02-21	Workshopped at Burgundy
201	Ode to a Mature Male	O, Sweety Plumpkin, did you know	2007-03-19	Workshopped at Eratosphere
202	On Philip Larkin	How pleasant to know Mr Larkin	2005-03-01	Published in Folly	Poems about poets, artists and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
203	One Hears an Occasional Bomb, The	The One hears a bomb, and shakes his head.	2005-07-09	Posted to Jiscmail
204	One Reason to Love	Subject: The discovery of connections.	2004-06-10	Posted to Jiscmail
205	One of Seven Seraphim	As soon as I emerged, I was drawn	2001-09-08	Posted to private list; copy provided by Christina Fletcher
206	Opening a Jar of Dead Sea Mud	The smell of mud and brine. I’m six, awash	2008-05-03	Finalist (and #1 in the popular vote) in the 2008 Eratosphere Sonnet Bake-off
207	Opening the Box	Dawn breaks, a shock of red upon the moon;	2003-09-17	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
208	Other Woman, The	I met your wife in town today. Calf-eyed,	2003-04-11	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
209	Painting in the Garden	I used to spend so long on foliage, dot	2004-08-24	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
210	Painting the Ceiling	All things evolve to ending, slow or fast;	2003-02-24	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	I'd consider this more a theological poem than an art poem. (JAS)
211	Party Piece	You were telling me about someone who couldn't find	2006-01-19	Posted to Jiscmail	Related to the Jerome poems? See note under "Jerome and a Theory of Nails". (JAS)
212	Passing	The fact that I am naked makes me	2005-09-25	Published in Mind Mutations anthology
213	Pavements	The sun brings out small lives.	2001-07-26	Posted to private list; copy provided by Christina Fletcher
214	Penelope Agonistes	Where I live, there is a room	2006-11-10	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
215	Phonophilia	O for a Muse of aphrodisiac fire	2004-07-13	Workshopped at Burgundy
216	Piece of the Black Forest, A			Workshopped at the Gazebo	She was looking for this one. I remember she posted it at the Gazebo at some point, and there was some discussion of her use of the “c” word. I think it was a narrative poem about a couple having dinner in a restaurant. Unfortunately I didn’t save a copy. (RMK)
217	Pismire Oration, The	Kreck, kreck, the Plumeys have been down pick pick	2003-10-16	Private copy provided by Paul Stevens	This poem was published posthumously in The Flea (Broadsheet 8) and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. There’s also a recording of Maz reading the poem.
218	Playing God	I met with God along the Pilgrim's way.	2002-08-27	Workshopped at PoemsPlace
219	Poem by the Green-Eyed Monster, A	O my God, these poets. How they nature on.	2006-10-01	Published in Folly	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
220	Poet to His Lady, The	I sent my servant with this letter, Love:	2004-03-06	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	Although about a poet, I wouldn't put this with the artist/scholar group. More a historical piece, I think. (JAS)
221	Poet’s Dam, The	Mothering, murthering, mild as a doe,	2004-04-01	Published in The Writer’s Hood	Date is an estimate from Gary Blankenship. Note, W. H. Auden said of Yeats: "Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry" (RMK) Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
222	Poet’s Fall, The	I will arise now and walk beside the lake	2004-03-14	Workshopped at Sonnet Central (Not Sonnets)	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
223	Poet’s Wife, The	There's a bee in the bedroom curtains,	2003-08-03	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
224	Police dog	he's a police constable	2001-11-16	Posted to Jiscmail
225	Pong Song, A	Sepia breadth of a Celtic bog	2007-09-28	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
226	Prose or Poetry?: A Philosophical Investigation	I think	2002-01-14	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
227	Pumpkin Pie	He'd sworn that she was not his type, too thin	2004-02-29	Published in Snakeskin
228	Q-mail from the Inner Ring, A	In the Intergalactic cafe, they've banned aftershave	2006-06-03	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
229	Quartering	Sir, I was taught to write	2001-07-01	Published in The Poetry Kit	Very similar in theme to "Remembering the Grapes". (JAS)
230	Raptors	Today we step out for his sport and pleasure	2005-10-30	Submitted to the Nemerov sonnet competition	Date is a guess. This poem was originally titled “The Duke A-Hunting.” I mailed her entry to the Nemerov competition in fall 2005, the year Charles Martin was judge. (RMK)
231	Reflected Fly	When the light hit her cheek a certain way,	2003-10-04	Workshopped at Burgundy	Given flies' means of digesting food, this might be a reflection on her own stomach problems. Perhaps put near one of those poems. (JAS)
232	Rembrandt’s Angel	Mine's a large port and lemon, the angel said, stashing	2004-01-01	Private copy provided by Rose Kelleher	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
233	Remembering the Grapes	He sucks his finger thoughtfully,	2003-10-01	Published in Crescent Moon Journal; won first prize in poetry contest.	Very similar in theme to "Quartering". (JAS)
234	Riddle	When I was a swan my neck	2003-07-14	Posted to Jiscmail
235	Rime of the Ancient Mountaineer, The	Beware, he stoppeth one of three and said,	2002-07-23	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
236	Rising flight, the	we were listening		Published in Worm 9
237	Rite	I felt the rough hemp	2001-12-19	Posted to Jiscmail
238	Roi de Verre	They filled a glass Byzantine cup, blood red	2003-05-02	Posted to Jiscmail	This was posted to Burgundy in response to the “The Oh-Geeez!/Oh-Yuck!/Forget-about-it!” challenge to “to write a poem that successfully incorporates a word that you absolutely abhor, and/or a word that drives someone else ballistic, and/or a phrase that over the years has become cliché.” Maz won with her use of “shards.” (RMK)
239	Rouge et Noir	The Queen of Hearts is bored; she stretches, yawns	2003-05-22	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
240	Sally’s Song	Sally sits on the arse of the day,	2002-11-30	Workshopped at PFFA
241	Salt	The mer-folk, they who drew us down, for aye	2002-09-13	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
242	Same difference, the	some women wear the britches	2001-08-02	Posted to Jiscmail
243	Sandalwood Horse, The	There are in world, many kinds of sandalwood, like white	2003-11-16	Posted to Jiscmail
244	Santa Cruz	By Mary's Grace, my king appointed me	2007-10-05	Workshopped at Eratosphere
245	Sasha’s Mug	Sasha had a special mug with a fault	2003-06-02	Posted to Jiscmail
246	Scrappy Mike	Stand in the corner, Scrappy Mike,	2003-02-18	Workshopped at Burgundy	War declared a month later. (RMK)
247	Senryu	everything turns	2004-07-01	Published in Triplopia
248	Sex Kitten	She loves dating older men.	2003-01-15	Posted to Jiscmail
249	Shackleton’s Dogs	This is the nature of the hero:	2002-01-28	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about dead animals: see list under "birdroom". (JAS)
250	Shahrazad's Earrings	The citrines in her tender lobes	2004-04-10	Posted to Jiscmail
251	Shedding a Little Light on Light	'To explain its full nature,' the ferret says,	2006-06-07	Noted on the Gazebo	Very similar in theme to "The Civet Instructs Her Kits". I italicized the name of the opera. (JAS)
252	Shell Game, The	The teeming sky descends upon the beach	2004-03-22	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	Poems about dead animals: see list under "birdroom". Also a theological poem. (JAS)
253	Sholey	Sholey brings the summer in a shiny old tin bucket	2001-08-16	Posted to Jiscmail
254	Shopping as an Act of Faith	Light buoys her up. Dawn parts	2005-04-16	Posted to Jiscmail
255	Shopping for Fruit	Marjani walks to the market with her sister,	2006-11-24	Posted to Jiscmail
256	Silkie, The	Mhaire works in the kitchen,	2004-12-07	Posted to Jiscmail	Companion piece to "The Kelpie"? (JAS)
257	Sirius	I was an old dun dog who followed Christ	2005-08-27	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about dead animals: see list under "birdroom". Also a theological poem. (JAS)
258	Sky in the Pie	Two sure cuts open the crust	2005-03-08	Published in The Eleventh Muse (print only)
259	Sleepwalking	the awakening feels less real now	2003-05-04	Workshopped at Burgundy
260	Small Sister Mary	Small Sister Mary-Magdalene of God,	2002-08-07	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	Maz said "Witch" was written as a companion piece to a poem about a medieaval nun. This must be the one. (JAS) On further reflection, this might form a trio with "Firstborn". (JAS)
261	Snakehead	Me and AJ Taylor	2001-07-01	Published in The Poetry Kit
262	Snapshot of the Ancestors, A	They stand on a shingle beach, brows furrowed	2006-01-07	Posted to private list; copy provided by Christina Fletcher
263	Snickers	I have seen the Eternal Footman	2002-03-15	Posted to Jiscmail
264	Snot Fairy, The	I am a little bag of bones, humming	2002-11-16	Posted to Jiscmail
265	Song for Lucy, A	Lucy bold and Lucy shy	2001-07-01	Published in The Poetry Kit
266	Sort of Ode to the Poem Lady, A	Hush, they are carrying in the Poem Lady again.	2006-10-01	Published in Folly	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
267	Spaced	Carpenter rode the starstorms round the outer rim	2006-12-06	Workshopped at Eratosphere
268	Spanish Fleas	He is wearing flip-flops again, strumming	2004-05-29	Posted to Jiscmail
269	Sparrow, The	I dreamed of Beowulf and dragon-lore.	2002-09-01	Posted to Jiscmail
270	Sphinx/sphincter	once I think (or more than once--serially)	2006-09-10	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
271	Staccato for Lovers	No blades were sheathed, no target spared,	2001-07-01	Published in The Poetry Kit
272	Stalker, The	He stands too close. I try to shift away.	2003-11-19	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	Dredd/Dread intentional or misspelling? Judge Dredd and Judge Death are British sci fi comic book characters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dredd (JAS)
273	Starlings	Words are translated into a tingle of wire,	2002-12-06	Posted to Jiscmail
274	Stepford Forded	When they had been married seven years	2006-05-30	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
275	String of Pearls, A	I wish I had another name.	2003-12-05	Posted to Burgundy
276	Stroke	In his 45th year, my father was felled	2006-11-15	Emailed to Rose Kelleher
277	Strutting the Strat	I love his brushwood chords,	2005-06-08	Posted to Jiscmail
278	Studying Savonarola, he considers his lover as kindling	With your amber eyes, yellow and red	2005-10-28	Posted to Jiscmail	This vaguely reminds me of the Jerome poems. See note under "Jerome and a Theory of Nails". (JAS)
279	Sudden Sparrow, A	It lay against a garden wall, lids tight	2006-09-12	Private copy provided by BJ Preston	Poems about dead animals—see list under "birdroom" (JAS)
280	Sunday Times	My door-mat's bare: no pages to enjoy.	2004-03-07	Posted to Jiscmail
281	Sweeney in the Lady Chapel	Father, Son and Holy Ghost--praise God,	2006-05-27	Workshopped at Eratosphere
282	Switch	He jiggled his belt-purse and himportantly said,	2005-11-04	Posted to Jiscmail
283	Tailgater	Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths	2006-12-02	Published in Bumbershoot	Julie found this one in 2011, so it didn’t make it into the book. A “tailgater” is a humorous couplet that begins with a line from a famous poem. Here’s the entire text: Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, I bet they’d all be munched by moths.
284	Take it from The End	I can tell you how I don't want this	2003-10-17	Posted to Jiscmail
285	Tantivvy	Hark, tantivvy on the breeze	2004-07-05	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about dead animals: see list under "birdroom". (JAS)
286	Tarocchi	He made a tarot	2003-04-29	Posted to Jiscmail
287	Testimony	Our monarch proved a traitor, so he came	2006-05-12	Workshopped at Eratosphere	In the Sonnet Central thread for this poem, Maz wrote, “This is a recorded incident. Charles was prodding the Clerk of the Court with his cane, to indicate that he wished to speak, and the silver knob dropped off. Charles obviously expected someone to retrieve it for him, accustomed to being waited on hand and foot, but nobody moved. He must have felt a chill at that moment. The anecdote stuck in my mind, and I thought it would suit a sonnet. However, I didn't want just to relate the story, and draw my conclusions about it. I wanted somehow to convey the sense of a 'haiku moment' for the king, and I thought if I wrote it in the voice of an eye-witness, it might add immediacy to the scene-how would it strike a particular observer at the time? “We all editoralise what we see, and the narrator is plainly a Roundhead sympathiser, so I don't intend the couplet to read as an impartial historical summing up. It's his own view, his personal testimony. Of course Charles was still king in one sense, but I feel the narrator was rather pleased that the haughty monarch had been made to feel that he was a man and not a King. “Marvell is one of my favourite poets and I think his wonderful poem about Charles is a masterpiece of diplomacy, because he's fair to both sides.”
288	Things I never asked for	I never asked for this, to be mortal,	2004-06-03	Posted to Jiscmail
289	Thoughts from the hide	He watches a blue-tit feeding	2003-06-13	Posted to Jiscmail
290	Throwaway lines	I’ll lose some things I will not need:	2006-11-01	Published in the Shit Creek Review	Poems about dead animals: see list under "birdroom". (JAS)
291	Tidings of Great Joy	God visited the poultry yard.	2001-12-29	Posted to Jiscmail
292	Times They Are A-Changin’	A big white van drives up, and slows. Hi	2006-10-31	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
293	To His Boy Mistress	Had we but World enough, and Time,	2004-01-26	Posted to Jiscmail
294	To Tim	Some authors don't rebel,	2007-09-19	Posted to Eratosphere	This wasn’t posted for workshopping, it was a personal thread for Tim Murphy when he was hospitalized. (RMK) Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
295	To a Lost Friend	I thought of you tonight and how	2005-04-11	Posted to Jiscmail
296	To those in the air	I am on the ground.	2003-02-16	Posted to Jiscmail
297	Tom’s Credo	A dog with an egg in its mouth. Mountains built on a city.	2004-07-10	Posted to Jiscmail
298	Tradition	One day when my grandmother was visiting, she stroked my hair and my face,	2005-09-25	Published in Mind Mutations anthology	Previous title was “Traditions.” (RMK)
299	Tried and True	I want to be tried in the U.S. of A.	2002-12-30	Posted to Jiscmail
300	Turquoise Bear, The	Chained around my neck I wear	2002-12-04	Workshopped at PFFA
301	Untitled	Fucking fuck haiku,	2002-10-31	Posted to Burgundy
302	Untitled	Hedgehog-hair, and just one sandal,	2002-12-11	Posted to Burgundy	See comments in thread. This was a repost of the first poem Maz ever posted online, in August 1999. (RMK) Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
303	Untitled	The Invisible Man came to rue		Second place in the First Annual Clean Sheets Limerick contest	I’ve emailed the editor asking for the date of the contest. (RMK)
304	Valentina, A	When I'm with you, I hum.	2003-02-11	Posted to Jiscmail
305	Victim’s Voice, A	I was killed by hate	2002-08-25	Workshopped at PoemsPlace
306	View from the Hill, A	Consider the fortunate: those golden souls	2006-01-22	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
307	Vigil	On the pale shaft of beach, I wait,	2001-09-09	Published in Worm 13
308	Visiting the Surgical Ward	I come festooned with flowers, smiles and grapes,	2004-11-24	Finalist in the 2004 Eratosphere Sonnet Bake-off
309	Vix	Vix the victim	2002-01-04	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about dead animals: see list under "birdroom". (JAS)
310	Walking Canford Heath	I am writing this with gritted teeth	2001-07-01	Published in The Poetry Kit
311	Wall behind the Paintings, The	I am tired of people talking about heart and art,	2003-10-28	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
312	Water Wings	In the river, I float paper boats. They skim over the pebbles	2007-03-29	Workshopped at Eratosphere	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS) It’s a parody. When she workshopped it, people didn’t get it and posted comments saying how lovely and Buddhist it was. Maz wrote, “It was 'inspired' by reading so many poems that are being written 'inspired by Li Po'. It's very much a fad, and I feel a lot of the imitations of his style achieve a sort of hokey Orientalism. I intended a gentle dig at all the 'Li Po' authors, by imagining how Li Po himself would feel about all these poems, and I thought he might use them to make paper boats.” (RMK)
313	Weather Man, The	In the last wood, he waits.	2002-02-15	Posted to Jiscmail
314	Wisdom from the Butt	Do not talk about words,	2003-03-24	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
315	Witch	Small Mercy Mary Erkinshaw, who saw	2003-04-08	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	In SC thread, Maz said that this poem is a companion to a piece about a mediaeval nun. Also said far down the thread, "a lot of room for improvement". (RMK) Mediaeval nun poem must be "Small Sister Mary". Also very similar to "Firstborn". (JAS)
316	Wolves	Wolves each end	2003-01-13	Posted to Jiscmail
317	Woman’s Circle, The	Faith takes the chair, and switches off her phone,	2003-01-11	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	In the Sonnet Central thread for this poem, Maz wrote, “I've written quite a few 'rude' sonnets, and I really think the sonnet is such a versatile form, it can be used for any subject-matter.” (RMK)
318	Writer’s Block	I cannot pen a poem:	2003-05-01	Posted to Burgundy	This was posted to Burgundy in response to the “The Oh-Geeez!/Oh-Yuck!/Forget-about-it!” challenge to “to write a poem that successfully incorporates a word that you absolutely abhor, and/or a word that drives someone else ballistic, and/or a phrase that over the years has become cliché.” Maz said she was thinking of “cute poems about writing poems.” Apparently a pet peeve of hers. Heh. (RMK) Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
319	Wunderkind	Girls shouldn't follow rabbits	2005-05-05	Posted to Jiscmail
320	Yam Sandwich	I am, I am, I am...what?	2006-09-28	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
		2 missing		53 published

	Title	First Line	Date	Latest Source	Notes
1	Angel of Mons	The Angel of Mons		Published in Worm 9
2	Apples	Five apples, red and green,		Published in Worm 1
3	Drawing Lesson, The	Outside the Master’s fine stone house,		Private copy provided by Rose Kelleher	More of a gender/power-themed poem than an art-themed poem. (JAS)
4	Falling	In the library,		Published in Worm 11
5	In hell	in hell they turned me inside out		Published in Worm 10
6	Mudlarks	They step down the slippery stone to the dark river flats.		Private copy provided by David Adkins
7	Piece of the Black Forest, A			Workshopped at the Gazebo	She was looking for this one. I remember she posted it at the Gazebo at some point, and there was some discussion of her use of the “c” word. I think it was a narrative poem about a couple having dinner in a restaurant. Unfortunately I didn’t save a copy. (RMK)
8	Rising flight, the	we were listening		Published in Worm 9
9	Untitled	The Invisible Man came to rue		Second place in the First Annual Clean Sheets Limerick contest	I’ve emailed the editor asking for the date of the contest. (RMK)
10	Birdroom	somewhere in this room	2001-07-01	Published in The Poetry Kit	One of many poems about dead animals: "A Sudden Sparrow", "birdroom", "Fer Blossom", "Five cans of cat food", "Sirius", "Great heart," "Not much", "Listening to the Dog", "Throwaway lines", "Shackleton's Dogs", "Tantivvy", "Vix the Victim". (JAS)
11	Cinquain, A	brown thrush	2001-07-01	Published in The Poetry Kit
12	Drowning Gypsy, The	Flamboyant	2001-07-01	Published in The Poetry Kit
13	Egypt	I am dying, Egypt, dying	2001-07-01	Published in The Poetry Kit
14	Five Fingers	Lord, they say I have one soul	2001-07-01	Published in The Poetry Kit
15	Quartering	Sir, I was taught to write	2001-07-01	Published in The Poetry Kit	Very similar in theme to "Remembering the Grapes". (JAS)
16	Snakehead	Me and AJ Taylor	2001-07-01	Published in The Poetry Kit
17	Song for Lucy, A	Lucy bold and Lucy shy	2001-07-01	Published in The Poetry Kit
18	Staccato for Lovers	No blades were sheathed, no target spared,	2001-07-01	Published in The Poetry Kit
19	Walking Canford Heath	I am writing this with gritted teeth	2001-07-01	Published in The Poetry Kit
20	Pavements	The sun brings out small lives.	2001-07-26	Posted to private list; copy provided by Christina Fletcher
21	Same difference, the	some women wear the britches	2001-08-02	Posted to Jiscmail
22	Angel of the Bottle, The	I found the plastic bottle	2001-08-04	Posted to Jiscmail
23	Annie	Annie went to work	2001-08-11	Posted to Jiscmail
24	Fairytale	Did you ever believe that	2001-08-15	Posted to private list; copy provided by Christina Fletcher
25	Sholey	Sholey brings the summer in a shiny old tin bucket	2001-08-16	Posted to Jiscmail
26	One of Seven Seraphim	As soon as I emerged, I was drawn	2001-09-08	Posted to private list; copy provided by Christina Fletcher
27	Nighthouse	when I broke into the nighthouse	2001-09-09	Published in Worm 13	Worm 13 was posted to Jiscmail on 9/9/01. (RMK)
28	Vigil	On the pale shaft of beach, I wait,	2001-09-09	Published in Worm 13
29	How things change	Things were always quiet round here.	2001-09-29	Posted to Jiscmail
30	12	copper wire (coiled)	2001-10-12	Posted to private list; copy provided by Christina Fletcher
31	Police dog	he's a police constable	2001-11-16	Posted to Jiscmail
32	Iris	she rises upright, sheds	2001-11-18	Posted to Jiscmail
33	Host of Darius, The	You, who were a soldier	2001-11-26	Posted to Jiscmail
34	Rite	I felt the rough hemp	2001-12-19	Posted to Jiscmail
35	12 Days	On the twelfth day of Christmas	2001-12-23	Posted to Jiscmail
36	Tidings of Great Joy	God visited the poultry yard.	2001-12-29	Posted to Jiscmail
37	Vix	Vix the victim	2002-01-04	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about dead animals: see list under "birdroom". (JAS)
38	Motorbike	In saw in a Hollywood film	2002-01-14	Published in Worm 14
39	Prose or Poetry?: A Philosophical Investigation	I think	2002-01-14	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
40	Descartes for the 21st Century	Man:	2002-01-16	Posted to Jiscmail
41	Drawing from Life	Two apples and a peach. The bruised pear	2002-01-21	Posted to private list; copy provided by Christina Fletcher	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
42	Grain	I think of Hulme	2002-01-23	Posted to Jiscmail
43	December 28	Father, can I see you	2002-01-26	Posted to Jiscmail
44	Shackleton’s Dogs	This is the nature of the hero:	2002-01-28	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about dead animals: see list under "birdroom". (JAS)
45	Grey imp	The grey imp on my shoulder	2002-02-06	Posted to Jiscmail
46	Atlantis	We have lingered in the chambers	2002-02-10	Posted to Jiscmail
47	Weather Man, The	In the last wood, he waits.	2002-02-15	Posted to Jiscmail
48	M Theory	in the Eleventh dimension	2002-02-20	Posted to Jiscmail
49	Great heart	When your great heart	2002-02-22	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about dead animals: see list under "birdroom". (JAS)
50	Annie and Dromida	He never used a cup	2002-02-26	Posted to Jiscmail
51	For Spike Milligan	Ah, Spike, for prince or goon,	2002-02-27	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
52	Laura’s Feet	I love Laura's feet	2002-03-04	Published in Worm 15
53	After	He thought about it for years	2002-03-10	Posted to Jiscmail
54	Snickers	I have seen the Eternal Footman	2002-03-15	Posted to Jiscmail
55	Clogs	The Queen Mum's gorn and popped her clogs;	2002-03-31	Posted to Jiscmail
56	Little Town	Bethlehem is blockaded,	2002-04-03	Posted to Jiscmail
57	Lepidoptera	He paints butterflies and moths	2002-04-05	Posted to private list; copy provided by Christina Fletcher
58	Frontispiece	With a stroke of blue,a stroke of green	2002-04-24	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
59	Haemorrhage	She was always a good little girl.	2002-04-27	Posted to Jiscmail
60	Bed Room	When his father left	2002-05-05	Posted to Jiscmail
61	Breaking the Habit	Helen always loved her son.	2002-05-06	Posted to Jiscmail
62	Ding Dong Bell	Great Bast, today she pulled out all the stops,	2002-07-20	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
63	Rime of the Ancient Mountaineer, The	Beware, he stoppeth one of three and said,	2002-07-23	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
64	Dying of the Day, The	Above his head the helicopter blades	2002-07-29	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
65	Number 30	On the road to sunny Boscombe,	2002-07-31	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
66	Small Sister Mary	Small Sister Mary-Magdalene of God,	2002-08-07	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	Maz said "Witch" was written as a companion piece to a poem about a medieaval nun. This must be the one. (JAS) On further reflection, this might form a trio with "Firstborn". (JAS)
67	Lorenzo to his Lady	When Isabella found her lover's head	2002-08-11	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
68	Clerihew, A	When Aphrodite	2002-08-16	Published in Worm 16
69	Lies	Perhaps it's true, as Twain implies,	2002-08-20	Private copy provided by BJ Preston	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
70	Victim’s Voice, A	I was killed by hate	2002-08-25	Workshopped at PoemsPlace
71	Ada and Evan	Before stereotypes had time to harden	2002-08-26	Posted to Burgundy	Posted for a funny-poem challenge. (RMK)
72	Playing God	I met with God along the Pilgrim's way.	2002-08-27	Workshopped at PoemsPlace
73	Beast	I'll take the beast out for a walk, beware	2002-08-29	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
74	Aftershock	No man is an island,	2002-08-30	Workshopped at PoemsPlace
75	Sparrow, The	I dreamed of Beowulf and dragon-lore.	2002-09-01	Posted to Jiscmail
76	Nursery Rhyme	Into my childhood attic,	2002-09-05	Workshopped at Sonnet Central (Not Sonnets)
77	In the translation	Professor Lieberman	2002-09-08	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
78	For the Fallen	After the day,	2002-09-11	Posted to Jiscmail
79	Salt	The mer-folk, they who drew us down, for aye	2002-09-13	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
80	Manifesto	If you can read this, please step back. It's clear	2002-09-15	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
81	Five cans of catfood	Five cans of catfood on a kitchen shelf:	2002-09-21	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about dead animals: see list at "birdroom". (JAS)
82	Marsyas	My song was ripped and flayed	2002-09-21	Workshopped at Sonnet Central (Not Sonnets)
83	Burden	I am so happy with my words,	2002-09-25	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
84	Eye rhyme	I'll clone myself. I've got the DNA.	2002-09-26	Posted to Jiscmail
85	Namu’s Nath	One night the blood-red gem fell from her nose.	2002-10-04	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	I’m sure I remember seeing this at the Gazebo more recently than ‘02. (RMK)
86	Church Mice	In the nave and aisles	2002-10-19	Workshopped at Burgundy
87	Christus Sissifactus	I knew his toes were pedicured, his feet	2002-10-21	Posted to Jiscmail
88	Gran and the bedbugs	Gran told me that she stayed	2002-10-23	Posted to Jiscmail
89	Like this	Like this: a grey-eyed girl	2002-10-28	Posted to Jiscmail
90	Untitled	Fucking fuck haiku,	2002-10-31	Posted to Burgundy
91	Death Scene	Rehearsing in his head what he will see,	2002-11-05	Posted to Jiscmail
92	My father and The Sopranos	My father would have liked The Sopranos.	2002-11-10	Posted to Jiscmail
93	Europa	When I first came to the paddock bar,	2002-11-12	Workshopped at Burgundy
94	Here you lie	Here you lie, framed by lilies.	2002-11-13	Posted to Jiscmail
95	Snot Fairy, The	I am a little bag of bones, humming	2002-11-16	Posted to Jiscmail
96	First time father	Just before Janice had the kid	2002-11-20	Posted to Jiscmail
97	Horseman, The	Her eyes are bleached by disappointment;	2002-11-25	Posted to Jiscmail
98	Elements, The	There is a point in the sea-swell	2002-11-29	Workshopped at Burgundy	This looks like a very early draft of "Grounding". Since it’s so different I’ll include it as a separate entry. (RMK)
99	Sally’s Song	Sally sits on the arse of the day,	2002-11-30	Workshopped at PFFA
100	Turquoise Bear, The	Chained around my neck I wear	2002-12-04	Workshopped at PFFA
101	Starlings	Words are translated into a tingle of wire,	2002-12-06	Posted to Jiscmail
102	Chrysalis	Do not stand by a grey graveside	2002-12-09	Posted to Burgundy	Posted for a challenge (theme was death). (RMK)
103	Untitled	Hedgehog-hair, and just one sandal,	2002-12-11	Posted to Burgundy	See comments in thread. This was a repost of the first poem Maz ever posted online, in August 1999. (RMK) Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
104	Megaera in the Cocktail Hour	She is standing with the dark-eyed man	2002-12-19	Published in Worm 17
105	For Earth: Christmas 2002	Looking on the world at large,	2002-12-25	Workshopped at PFFA
106	Tried and True	I want to be tried in the U.S. of A.	2002-12-30	Posted to Jiscmail
107	Lucifer on the news	You tell me the earth is bleeding -	2003-01-05	Posted to Jiscmail
108	Woman’s Circle, The	Faith takes the chair, and switches off her phone,	2003-01-11	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	In the Sonnet Central thread for this poem, Maz wrote, “I've written quite a few 'rude' sonnets, and I really think the sonnet is such a versatile form, it can be used for any subject-matter.” (RMK)
109	Lavender	His flesh is cartography,	2003-01-12	Posted to Jiscmail
110	Wolves	Wolves each end	2003-01-13	Posted to Jiscmail
111	Sex Kitten	She loves dating older men.	2003-01-15	Posted to Jiscmail
112	Ego	A shamanistic friend tells me solemnly	2003-01-18	Posted to Jiscmail
113	Carrier	My dog is a carrier, not of disease,	2003-01-23	Posted to Jiscmail
114	Hands on	It started with the fingers -	2003-01-27	Posted to Jiscmail
115	Countdown	Her doctor prescribes calcium tablets	2003-02-01	Posted to Jiscmail
116	Valentina, A	When I'm with you, I hum.	2003-02-11	Posted to Jiscmail
117	To those in the air	I am on the ground.	2003-02-16	Posted to Jiscmail
118	Scrappy Mike	Stand in the corner, Scrappy Mike,	2003-02-18	Workshopped at Burgundy	War declared a month later. (RMK)
119	Ode to Ozzie	Poor Ozzie's only 52	2003-02-21	Workshopped at Burgundy
120	Painting the Ceiling	All things evolve to ending, slow or fast;	2003-02-24	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	I'd consider this more a theological poem than an art poem. (JAS)
121	Bang	Last night they dropped	2003-03-03	Posted to Jiscmail	Missing period at the end could be intentional. (RMK)
122	American in Kilburn, An	The smoke threatens as you enter.	2003-03-08	Workshopped at Burgundy
123	Blue Geranium, The	Enchanted by the picture on the label,	2003-03-19	Posted to Burgundy	Posted for a challenge: "Write a sonnet (or combination of sonnets) that is not in pent or tet, not iambic, that is not 14 lines, and yet somehow satisfies a form." This one came in second. (RMK)
124	Wisdom from the Butt	Do not talk about words,	2003-03-24	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
125	Gut Reaction	Red in the bowl again, bright shocking spots,	2003-04-01	Posted to Jiscmail
126	Mermaiden	She sits on an pearled imperial rock,	2003-04-04	Posted to Jiscmail
127	Correspondents’ Song, The	Come friendly bombs and drop on us -	2003-04-07	Workshopped at Burgundy
128	Witch	Small Mercy Mary Erkinshaw, who saw	2003-04-08	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	In SC thread, Maz said that this poem is a companion to a piece about a mediaeval nun. Also said far down the thread, "a lot of room for improvement". (RMK) Mediaeval nun poem must be "Small Sister Mary". Also very similar to "Firstborn". (JAS)
129	Other Woman, The	I met your wife in town today. Calf-eyed,	2003-04-11	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
130	Black Britain	Seventy percent of the clothes here	2003-04-16	Posted to Jiscmail
131	Butterfly Bawl	This Pinkerton's a bearded porcine prig	2003-04-17	Posted to Jiscmail	The Jiscmail post says, "(This is specially for Christina, who I know also has a blub at 'One Fine Day'.)" (RMK) A gender/power poem rather than an art poem, in my opinion. (JAS)
132	Keep: a mirror form, the	the keep,	2003-04-22	Published in Worm 20
133	Gone Before	Please don't think I'll laugh. I've been there too;	2003-04-23	Posted to private list; copy provided by Christina Fletcher	This poem was posted earlier to Sonnet Central under the title, “The Lost World.” (RMK)
134	Tarocchi	He made a tarot	2003-04-29	Posted to Jiscmail
135	Haiku blues	watercolour scenes	2003-04-30	Posted to Burgundy	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
136	Writer’s Block	I cannot pen a poem:	2003-05-01	Posted to Burgundy	This was posted to Burgundy in response to the “The Oh-Geeez!/Oh-Yuck!/Forget-about-it!” challenge to “to write a poem that successfully incorporates a word that you absolutely abhor, and/or a word that drives someone else ballistic, and/or a phrase that over the years has become cliché.” Maz said she was thinking of “cute poems about writing poems.” Apparently a pet peeve of hers. Heh. (RMK) Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
137	Roi de Verre	They filled a glass Byzantine cup, blood red	2003-05-02	Posted to Jiscmail	This was posted to Burgundy in response to the “The Oh-Geeez!/Oh-Yuck!/Forget-about-it!” challenge to “to write a poem that successfully incorporates a word that you absolutely abhor, and/or a word that drives someone else ballistic, and/or a phrase that over the years has become cliché.” Maz won with her use of “shards.” (RMK)
138	Sleepwalking	the awakening feels less real now	2003-05-04	Workshopped at Burgundy
139	Rouge et Noir	The Queen of Hearts is bored; she stretches, yawns	2003-05-22	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
140	Exchange, The	The telephone is intimate at times	2003-06-02	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
141	Sasha’s Mug	Sasha had a special mug with a fault	2003-06-02	Posted to Jiscmail
142	Carnival	Through unmarked years of tables, chairs and chests,	2003-06-11	Posted to Jiscmail
143	Thoughts from the hide	He watches a blue-tit feeding	2003-06-13	Posted to Jiscmail
144	Death and the Donkey	'Donne's piece on Death? Well, naturally,	2003-06-20	Posted to Jiscmail	"Death and the Donkey" and "Death Replies" belong together thematically. (JAS)
145	Longing	In the morning, love, I yearned for you	2003-06-22	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
146	For Sarah	Skintight and shiny, that's the fashion now.	2003-07-04	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	At the top of the Sonnet Central thread, Maz was careful to note, “The bonnet of a car is called the hood in the USA.” (RMK)
147	Riddle	When I was a swan my neck	2003-07-14	Posted to Jiscmail
148	Jack-in-the-Books	He showed rare tenderness, a careful touch,	2003-07-23	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	In the Sonnet Central thread for this poem, Maz wrote, “Yes, it's Casanova...The heartless game took place in England, where Casanova met a woman he calls the Charpillon, who teased him cruelly, driving him to the point that he put a knife to her throat. (RMK)
149	Dead Zone, The	Il Duce dangling like a hog,	2003-07-24	Posted to Jiscmail
150	Night Emile’s Mistress Turned into a Cat, The	She raised one arm above her head.	2003-07-26	Published in Worm 22
151	Lying Together	No doubt I seem serene and well content	2003-08-03	Workshopped at Burgundy
152	Poet’s Wife, The	There's a bee in the bedroom curtains,	2003-08-03	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
153	Knot	This poem is not about Death,	2003-08-08	Posted to Jiscmail
154	Bast	She has this sense sometimes	2003-08-16	Posted to Jiscmail
155	Archaeology	Chink-chink, clunk-clunk, there's no escape.	2003-08-31	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	One of many poems about poets, artists and scholars, including: POETRY: "Dear Reader", "Wisdom from the Butt", "To Tim", "untitled--Hedgehog-hair, and just one sandal", "Writer's Block", "untitled--fucking fuck haiku", "Burden", "Lies", "Casting Pearls", "Manifesto", "Prose or Poetry: A Philological Investigation", "A Sort of Ode for the Poetry Lady", "La La Land", "The Four-Eyed Git Addresses Poets", "A Poem by the Green-Eyed Monster", "The Poet's Fall", "Obligatory Autumn Poem", "Grain", "Water Wings", "The Poet's Dam", "On Philip Larkin"; ART: "For Spike Milligan", "Drama Class", "Rembrandt's Angel", "The Wall Behind the Paintings", "Painting in the Garden", "Haiku blues", "Frontispiece", "Drawing from Life", "Lepidoptera", which leads in nicely to the poems about SCHOLARS: "In the translation", "The Biographer", "Archaeology". Perhaps also the Jerome poems, "Party Piece", "Studying Savonarola". But I'd put "The "My Life with a Latin Professor" with the sci fi/fantasy poems; "The Drawing Lesson" with the gender/power poems; "Painting the Ceiling" with the theological poems; "Butterfly Bawl" and "Costanza Carved" with the gender/power poems. (JAS)
156	Opening the Box	Dawn breaks, a shock of red upon the moon;	2003-09-17	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
157	Emily abandons her breasts	Emily felt an old brass ring tightening	2003-09-23	Published in Worm 23
158	Biographer, The	How hard it is to write of death, when Death	2003-09-28	Posted to Jiscmail	In the Sonnet Central thread for this poem, Maz explained, “I wrote it after reading a biography, and then realising the author had been dying when he wrote it.” Poems about poets, artists and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
159	Remembering the Grapes	He sucks his finger thoughtfully,	2003-10-01	Published in Crescent Moon Journal; won first prize in poetry contest.	Very similar in theme to "Quartering". (JAS)
160	Reflected Fly	When the light hit her cheek a certain way,	2003-10-04	Workshopped at Burgundy	Given flies' means of digesting food, this might be a reflection on her own stomach problems. Perhaps put near one of those poems. (JAS)
161	Death Replies	Dear Dean, I wonder you should think me proud.	2003-10-09	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	"Death and the Donkey" and "Death Replies" belong together thematically. (JAS)
162	Demon Lover	I sensed you were a follower of Set -	2003-10-15	Published in Worm 24	In the Sonnet Central thread for this poem, Maz wrote, “I'm not sure if this is a cultural thing, but in the UK we 'top and tail' vegetables like runner beans. I was using it as a double entendre, of course...” (RMK)
163	Pismire Oration, The	Kreck, kreck, the Plumeys have been down pick pick	2003-10-16	Private copy provided by Paul Stevens	This poem was published posthumously in The Flea (Broadsheet 8) and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. There’s also a recording of Maz reading the poem.
164	Take it from The End	I can tell you how I don't want this	2003-10-17	Posted to Jiscmail
165	Ex-Romantic, The	How do I hate you? Let me count the ways:	2003-10-19	Posted to Jiscmail
166	Wall behind the Paintings, The	I am tired of people talking about heart and art,	2003-10-28	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
167	Sandalwood Horse, The	There are in world, many kinds of sandalwood, like white	2003-11-16	Posted to Jiscmail
168	Stalker, The	He stands too close. I try to shift away.	2003-11-19	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	Dredd/Dread intentional or misspelling? Judge Dredd and Judge Death are British sci fi comic book characters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Dredd (JAS)
169	String of Pearls, A	I wish I had another name.	2003-12-05	Posted to Burgundy
170	No Shit	After seven beers and a chicken biryana	2003-12-11	Posted to Jiscmail
171	Expectations	Estella buried Pip	2003-12-17	Posted to Jiscmail
172	Rembrandt’s Angel	Mine's a large port and lemon, the angel said, stashing	2004-01-01	Private copy provided by Rose Kelleher	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
173	Garden Birds	A wren outside my window	2004-01-07	Posted to Jiscmail
174	Christopher Robin Muses on Religion	Sometimes I don't like you, God.	2004-01-08	Posted to Jiscmail
175	Naming of Parties	How should I introduce you now? Um erm,	2004-01-08	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
176	Grounding	When the hull grated against an island,	2004-01-15	Published in Worm 26
177	Concubine’s Charm, The	It is a silver ball, a sphere	2004-01-16	Posted to Jiscmail
178	To His Boy Mistress	Had we but World enough, and Time,	2004-01-26	Posted to Jiscmail
179	Growing up with animals	I was an awkward child, always asking	2004-02-09	Posted to Jiscmail
180	Bard Cheese	Last night in dreams I left my love abed	2004-02-15	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	This was composed for a contest on the Gazebo, which Maz won. (I remember because I entered too.) The challenge was to "Try to write a sonnet ‘to your love’ in the style of The Bard of Avon. Gushing is OK, in pursuit of higher glory." (RMK)
181	Multi-tracking	Professor Dwight is bright, all smiles today;	2004-02-29	Posted to Jiscmail
182	Pumpkin Pie	He'd sworn that she was not his type, too thin	2004-02-29	Published in Snakeskin
183	Poet to His Lady, The	I sent my servant with this letter, Love:	2004-03-06	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	Although about a poet, I wouldn't put this with the artist/scholar group. More a historical piece, I think. (JAS)
184	Sunday Times	My door-mat's bare: no pages to enjoy.	2004-03-07	Posted to Jiscmail
185	Black Ribbons	Today they put black ribbons on the trains.	2004-03-12	Posted to Jiscmail
186	Poet’s Fall, The	I will arise now and walk beside the lake	2004-03-14	Workshopped at Sonnet Central (Not Sonnets)	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
187	Bateleur, The	She was returning to the gauntlet when	2004-03-22	Finalist in the 2004 Eratosphere Sonnet Bake-off
188	Shell Game, The	The teeming sky descends upon the beach	2004-03-22	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	Poems about dead animals: see list under "birdroom". Also a theological poem. (JAS)
189	Poet’s Dam, The	Mothering, murthering, mild as a doe,	2004-04-01	Published in The Writer’s Hood	Date is an estimate from Gary Blankenship. Note, W. H. Auden said of Yeats: "Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry" (RMK) Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
190	Bellerophon Before Breakfast	I am heaving my reluctant flesh around with me	2004-04-02	Posted to Jiscmail
191	Casting Pearls	As Shakespeare wrote, forsooth, so shall I write.	2004-04-09	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	Poems about poets, artists and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
192	Shahrazad's Earrings	The citrines in her tender lobes	2004-04-10	Posted to Jiscmail
193	Archery	I think you should have stayed alive,	2004-04-15	Posted to Jiscmail
194	Jungular	A leopard leaps the space between	2004-04-28	Posted to Jiscmail
195	Crawlspace	My house has an extra storey,	2004-05-24	Posted to Jiscmail
196	Spanish Fleas	He is wearing flip-flops again, strumming	2004-05-29	Posted to Jiscmail
197	Colonel Blimp Addresses the Troops	We’ll send you to a hostile place	2004-05-31	Workshopped at Burgundy
198	Things I never asked for	I never asked for this, to be mortal,	2004-06-03	Posted to Jiscmail
199	3 Mormons or Whatever	I was standing on a wide plain scoured	2004-06-08	Posted to Jiscmail
200	One Reason to Love	Subject: The discovery of connections.	2004-06-10	Posted to Jiscmail
201	Meg Merrythought the Milkmaid	Meg flirts her skirts as she sells Guernsey milk.	2004-06-20	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
202	Senryu	everything turns	2004-07-01	Published in Triplopia
203	Not Much	I didn't ask you for much - only to stay with me and to stay strong	2004-07-03	Workshopped at Burgundy	Poems about dead animals: see list under "birdroom". (JAS)
204	Corner Shop, The	They went on Hajj this year. She was determined.	2004-07-05	Posted to Jiscmail
205	Tantivvy	Hark, tantivvy on the breeze	2004-07-05	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about dead animals: see list under "birdroom". (JAS)
206	Tom’s Credo	A dog with an egg in its mouth. Mountains built on a city.	2004-07-10	Posted to Jiscmail
207	Phonophilia	O for a Muse of aphrodisiac fire	2004-07-13	Workshopped at Burgundy
208	Gateway	he hoped that she would ask him	2004-07-20	Posted to Jiscmail
209	Little Princess, The	Constantia lives in interesting times.	2004-08-10	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
210	Painting in the Garden	I used to spend so long on foliage, dot	2004-08-24	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
211	Listening to the Dog	My dog is teaching me to die. He explains that humans	2004-08-29	Posted to Jiscmail
212	Catching	3 am finds him at the fridge again,	2004-09-07	Posted to Jiscmail
213	First Woman, The	As Lilith prowls her realm, the night yields stars	2004-09-20	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	In the Sonnet Central thread for this poem, Maz wrote, “What I like about the sonnet is its versality -often people play with the form, shortening it, lengthening it, removing metre or rhyme etc, but I think so much can be done within the given form - it lends itself to so may subjects and voices.” (RMK)
214	Cutlet, Mince of Denmark	What fowl noisette's abroad this night? I walk	2004-09-25	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	"Orphelia" might be a pun, not a typo. (JAS) Or just spelled that way because it’s funny. (RMK)
215	Bereavement: A Survey from Apollyon	A) Did you hear old laughter in the sky?	2004-10-02	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
216	Martha in the Morning	Sweetheart, help me through this day.	2004-11-13	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
217	Visiting the Surgical Ward	I come festooned with flowers, smiles and grapes,	2004-11-24	Finalist in the 2004 Eratosphere Sonnet Bake-off
218	Silkie, The	Mhaire works in the kitchen,	2004-12-07	Posted to Jiscmail	Companion piece to "The Kelpie"? (JAS)
219	Dreaming in the Batmobile	Over Venice, he starts to drowse.	2005-02-14	Posted to Jiscmail
220	Jack and the Radioactive Boy Scout	Jack is set to save the world, or so	2005-02-15	Posted to Jiscmail
221	On Philip Larkin	How pleasant to know Mr Larkin	2005-03-01	Published in Folly	Poems about poets, artists and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
222	Sky in the Pie	Two sure cuts open the crust	2005-03-08	Published in The Eleventh Muse (print only)
223	Duke A-Hunting, The	Today we step out for his sport and pleasure	2005-03-14	Finalist in the 2005 Eratosphere Sonnet Bake-off	See “Raptors.” (RMK)
224	Curves	She hates being the second wife, not that she admits it	2005-04-06	Posted to Jiscmail
225	To a Lost Friend	I thought of you tonight and how	2005-04-11	Posted to Jiscmail
226	Shopping as an Act of Faith	Light buoys her up. Dawn parts	2005-04-16	Posted to Jiscmail
227	Advice for a Wood Maiden	Walk softly on leaf-mould and do not crush	2005-05-01	Posted to Jiscmail
228	Wunderkind	Girls shouldn't follow rabbits	2005-05-05	Posted to Jiscmail
229	Civet Instructs Her Kits, The	I will tell you how he forged the wind	2005-05-10	Posted to Jiscmail	Very similar in theme to "Shedding a Little Light on Light". (JAS)
230	Eyelids of Langerhans, The	A scan reveals landscapes. Tribes move	2005-05-31	Posted to Jiscmail
231	Strutting the Strat	I love his brushwood chords,	2005-06-08	Posted to Jiscmail
232	Calling the Roll	As another full year ends,	2005-06-25	Noted on the Gazebo
233	Aftermath	Enough. I have no stomach to defame	2005-06-30	Entered in the Nemerov competition	This sonnet was a finalist in the 2005 Sonnet Bake-off at Eratosphere. In the Eratosphere thread, Maz says she sent the wrong version to the Bake-off. I mailed her entry to the Nemerov contest in the fall of 2005, the year Charles Martin was judge, so that was probably the final version. (RMK)
234	Afters	Unpeel me slowly, like the fruit	2005-07-01	Published in millers pond
235	Consuming Angel, The	My angel is shaped from clouds, a purl	2005-07-01	Published in millers pond	According to Gary Blankenship, it appeared in Mindfire Renewed in "summer or fall of 2004". This one appeared in Worm 25 when I was a guest editor. Without knowing whose it was, I selected this poem as my Editor’s Choice for the issue, writing, “This delights me in all the usual ways: imaginative imagery, skillful sonics that make it a pleasure to read aloud. But beyond that, this poem is good in a way that can't be achieved by elbow grease alone; it's got an inexplicable, kooky magic, as if smiled on by angels. (Angels with pockets full of fish, of course.)” We were both surprised (and a little embarrassed, I think) by the coincidence, since Maz was the editor. Soon after that she stopped submitting her own poems to Worm - but for the record, the ones she did submit had to get past the guest editors, who were reading blind. (RMK)
236	Last Orders - the Movie	I’m ordering a Hollywood decline.	2005-07-01	Published in millers pond	Also published in Crescent Moon Journal, date unknown. (RMK)
237	One Hears an Occasional Bomb, The	The One hears a bomb, and shakes his head.	2005-07-09	Posted to Jiscmail
238	Hippolyta on a Field of Linen	I sit between his thighs and mark the length	2005-07-19	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
239	Daughters	A pedlar comes to our gate, laden	2005-08-12	Posted to Jiscmail
240	Sirius	I was an old dun dog who followed Christ	2005-08-27	Posted to Jiscmail	Poems about dead animals: see list under "birdroom". Also a theological poem. (JAS)
241	Fer Blossom	Tha’s not allowed ta bury pigs, tha knows.	2005-09-01	Published in Folly	Poems about dead animals: see list under "birdroom". (JAS)
242	Beloved	He held the Beloved carefully,	2005-09-25	Published in Mind Mutations anthology
243	Passing	The fact that I am naked makes me	2005-09-25	Published in Mind Mutations anthology
244	Tradition	One day when my grandmother was visiting, she stroked my hair and my face,	2005-09-25	Published in Mind Mutations anthology	Previous title was “Traditions.” (RMK)
245	Jerome and a Theory of Regression	Some people are obsessed about previous lives	2005-10-01	Posted to Jiscmail	See note under "Jerome and a Theory of Nails". (JAS)
246	Ariadne’s Daughters	Nasty girls make mouth music. They fist the air	2005-10-04	Posted to Jiscmail
247	Jerome and a Theory of Stimulation	Jerome grinds Serra Nerga beans and spoons fragrant heaps	2005-10-12	Posted to Jiscmail	See note under "Jerome and a Theory of Nails". (JAS)
248	Studying Savonarola, he considers his lover as kindling	With your amber eyes, yellow and red	2005-10-28	Posted to Jiscmail	This vaguely reminds me of the Jerome poems. See note under "Jerome and a Theory of Nails". (JAS)
249	Raptors	Today we step out for his sport and pleasure	2005-10-30	Submitted to the Nemerov sonnet competition	Date is a guess. This poem was originally titled “The Duke A-Hunting.” I mailed her entry to the Nemerov competition in fall 2005, the year Charles Martin was judge. (RMK)
250	Jerome and a Theory of Nails	Jerome is discussing his mediaeval site, where many nails	2005-11-01	Published in Stirring	The three Jerome poems, "Party Piece", and "Studying Savonarola" are very similar in flavor—perhaps somehow akin to each other. (JAS)
251	Switch	He jiggled his belt-purse and himportantly said,	2005-11-04	Posted to Jiscmail
252	Memento Mori	A white spider-husk on a torn web.	2005-12-06	Posted to Jiscmail
253	Chester Arnessy explains religion	Jimmy Bole had a bad eye from the war. The iris	2006-01-01	Posted to Jiscmail
254	Snapshot of the Ancestors, A	They stand on a shingle beach, brows furrowed	2006-01-07	Posted to private list; copy provided by Christina Fletcher
255	Four-eyed Git Addresses Poets, The	I wish you would not write poems On Poetry,	2006-01-16	Private copy provided by BJ Preston	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
256	Party Piece	You were telling me about someone who couldn't find	2006-01-19	Posted to Jiscmail	Related to the Jerome poems? See note under "Jerome and a Theory of Nails". (JAS)
257	View from the Hill, A	Consider the fortunate: those golden souls	2006-01-22	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
258	Aquarium	Remembering what never happened,	2006-03-09	Private copy provided by BJ Preston	I’m thinking “squarm” is a brilliant invention, not a typo. (RMK)
259	Mrs Buggins Considers The Big One	I worry sometimes how it will be after	2006-04-01	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
260	Drama Class (intermediate)	Cesare claps his hands, declares that today we will be doing horses.	2006-04-11	Private copy provided by BJ Preston	Poems about artists and scholars: see note under "Archaeology". (JAS)
261	My Life With a Latin Professor	Lorenzo has been taken by aliens again.	2006-05-04	Second place in the Balticon 40 Poetry Contest	Date of contest unknown, but Last-Modified date of PDF is 5/4/06. (RMK)
262	Alchemist’s Omelette, The	If he traces three more arcs, he will make a cat―	2006-05-06	Posted to Jiscmail
263	Testimony	Our monarch proved a traitor, so he came	2006-05-12	Workshopped at Eratosphere	In the Sonnet Central thread for this poem, Maz wrote, “This is a recorded incident. Charles was prodding the Clerk of the Court with his cane, to indicate that he wished to speak, and the silver knob dropped off. Charles obviously expected someone to retrieve it for him, accustomed to being waited on hand and foot, but nobody moved. He must have felt a chill at that moment. The anecdote stuck in my mind, and I thought it would suit a sonnet. However, I didn't want just to relate the story, and draw my conclusions about it. I wanted somehow to convey the sense of a 'haiku moment' for the king, and I thought if I wrote it in the voice of an eye-witness, it might add immediacy to the scene-how would it strike a particular observer at the time? “We all editoralise what we see, and the narrator is plainly a Roundhead sympathiser, so I don't intend the couplet to read as an impartial historical summing up. It's his own view, his personal testimony. Of course Charles was still king in one sense, but I feel the narrator was rather pleased that the haughty monarch had been made to feel that he was a man and not a King. “Marvell is one of my favourite poets and I think his wonderful poem about Charles is a masterpiece of diplomacy, because he's fair to both sides.”
264	Sweeney in the Lady Chapel	Father, Son and Holy Ghost--praise God,	2006-05-27	Workshopped at Eratosphere
265	Stepford Forded	When they had been married seven years	2006-05-30	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
266	Q-mail from the Inner Ring, A	In the Intergalactic cafe, they've banned aftershave	2006-06-03	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
267	Ghost of Icarus, The	The old man sits alone again tonight	2006-06-04	Workshopped at Eratosphere
268	Shedding a Little Light on Light	'To explain its full nature,' the ferret says,	2006-06-07	Noted on the Gazebo	Very similar in theme to "The Civet Instructs Her Kits". I italicized the name of the opera. (JAS)
269	Horology as a speculative science	Unfortunately the big ash clock in the hall strikes	2006-06-13	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
270	Sphinx/sphincter	once I think (or more than once--serially)	2006-09-10	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
271	Sudden Sparrow, A	It lay against a garden wall, lids tight	2006-09-12	Private copy provided by BJ Preston	Poems about dead animals—see list under "birdroom" (JAS)
272	Conversation with the Dark, A	So tired of it, you bastard, tired of waiting,	2006-09-14	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
273	Nuttin’ to Do With Marvell	If I had trees enough, and time,	2006-09-27	Posted to Lyres forum at Capriole
274	Yam Sandwich	I am, I am, I am...what?	2006-09-28	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
275	Poem by the Green-Eyed Monster, A	O my God, these poets. How they nature on.	2006-10-01	Published in Folly	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
276	Sort of Ode to the Poem Lady, A	Hush, they are carrying in the Poem Lady again.	2006-10-01	Published in Folly	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
277	Hairy Story	Possessing prehensile toes, I can understand	2006-10-05	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
278	Dear Reader	If you chance upon this book,	2006-10-18	Workshopped at Capriole	File provided by Don Zirilli, the site admin. (RMK) Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
279	Elaine: suicide bomber	But Lancelot mused a little space	2006-10-18	Workshopped at Capriole	File provided by Don Zirilli, the site admin. (RMK) This poem might help provide context for "Beloved", which is also about a suicide bomber. (JAS)
280	Kelpie	The head is always a horse’s head, heaved huge against your own.	2006-10-28	Workshopped at Eratosphere	Companion piece to "The Silkie"? (JAS)
281	After Troy, after Tripoli	My sisters howled like Cerberus with all three throats.	2006-10-30	Emailed to Rose
282	Times They Are A-Changin’	A big white van drives up, and slows. Hi	2006-10-31	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
283	Holes in the News	They put me in a hole and left me	2006-11-01	Published in the Shit Creek Review
284	Throwaway lines	I’ll lose some things I will not need:	2006-11-01	Published in the Shit Creek Review	Poems about dead animals: see list under "birdroom". (JAS)
285	Death Abroad	The phone is ringing late. My stomach tingles	2006-11-04	Workshopped at Eratosphere
286	No place like home	where you were cradled, rocked, where your soles first rolled on grass, on stones,	2006-11-09	Posted to Lyres forum at Capriole
287	Penelope Agonistes	Where I live, there is a room	2006-11-10	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
288	Stroke	In his 45th year, my father was felled	2006-11-15	Emailed to Rose Kelleher
289	Shopping for Fruit	Marjani walks to the market with her sister,	2006-11-24	Posted to Jiscmail
290	Obligatory Autumn Poem, The	Leaves browning, crimsoning, yellowing	2006-11-26	Private copy provided by BJ Preston	Poems about poets, artists and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
291	Tailgater	Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths	2006-12-02	Published in Bumbershoot	Julie found this one in 2011, so it didn’t make it into the book. A “tailgater” is a humorous couplet that begins with a line from a famous poem. Here’s the entire text: Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, I bet they’d all be munched by moths.
292	Spaced	Carpenter rode the starstorms round the outer rim	2006-12-06	Workshopped at Eratosphere
293	No Fear	A fucking big dog, it lurks in my front garden,	2006-12-22	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
294	Advertising Arsenic	The image that sticks with me is Emma stuffing	2006-12-24	Posted to Jiscmail
295	Before	She thinks of it as a small cauliflower, pale and pink-threaded	2007-01-04	Posted to Jiscmail
296	If the ocean is like light	both wave and particle, if salmon leap from turquoise point	2007-01-05	Workshopped at Capriole; copy provided by Don Zirilli, the site admin
297	Mushroom Effect, The	Isn't it strange, my husband said, that heliotrope	2007-02-08	Posted to Jiscmail
298	Beelines	Out of the drowsy singing vessel	2007-02-25	Final version provided by David Adkins
299	City of Departing Angels	They stand on the corners,	2007-02-25	Private copy provided by Rose Kelleher	She was searching for this poem. Originally I think she posted this to the Gazebo, but I didn’t save the thread. (RMK)
300	Advice from Mother Goose	Today we'll talk of princes, pets, it's story time	2007-03-05	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
301	Firstborn	The Fetch farm wife keeps half a field of bees	2007-03-08	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	Striking similarities with "Small Sister Mary" and "Witch"--these three might form a set. (JAS)
302	Ode to a Mature Male	O, Sweety Plumpkin, did you know	2007-03-19	Workshopped at Eratosphere
303	Family Feeling	So Bobby has the case. The trouble is	2007-03-20	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	"Family Feeling" and "My father and The Sopranos" belong together thematically, in my opinion. (JAS)
304	Between the Lines	Darling, I do not know you but unsolicited,	2007-03-22	Posted to Jiscmail
305	Internal Memo	Dear Stomach,	2007-03-23	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
306	Water Wings	In the river, I float paper boats. They skim over the pebbles	2007-03-29	Workshopped at Eratosphere	Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS) It’s a parody. When she workshopped it, people didn’t get it and posted comments saying how lovely and Buddhist it was. Maz wrote, “It was 'inspired' by reading so many poems that are being written 'inspired by Li Po'. It's very much a fad, and I feel a lot of the imitations of his style achieve a sort of hokey Orientalism. I intended a gentle dig at all the 'Li Po' authors, by imagining how Li Po himself would feel about all these poems, and I thought he might use them to make paper boats.” (RMK)
307	Judas as a General Theory	Like--the friend you thought was your best friend but	2007-04-10	Workshopped at Eratosphere
308	Booby Trap	That roar should be diminished by long years	2007-05-03	Workshopped at Eratosphere
309	In Foreign Fields	Crossed out in white, unwilling,	2007-07-23	Published in Lilt
310	Costanza Carved	Of course, you packed the bloody bust away:	2007-09-07	Workshopped at Sonnet Central	In the Sonnet Central thread, Maz wrote, “I'm surprised the story isn't better known, as it was a horrible revenge that Bernini took. The servant who attacked Costanza was jailed, and poor Costanza was thrown into jail too, on charges of fornication and adultery, but Bernini basically got off scot free because he was the Pope's favourite.” I'd put this in the gender/power group, rather than in the group of poems about poets, artists, and scholars. (JAS)
311	To Tim	Some authors don't rebel,	2007-09-19	Posted to Eratosphere	This wasn’t posted for workshopping, it was a personal thread for Tim Murphy when he was hospitalized. (RMK) Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
312	Pong Song, A	Sepia breadth of a Celtic bog	2007-09-28	Workshopped at Sonnet Central
313	La La Land	Come and live in La La Land	2007-10-01	Published on COFTOP	Date is an estimate from Mary Meriam, the site owner. (RMK) Poems about poets, artists, and scholars: see list under "Archaeology". (JAS)
314	Santa Cruz	By Mary's Grace, my king appointed me	2007-10-05	Workshopped at Eratosphere
315	Livia’s Eagle	When great Augustus croaked, Rome yearned to see	2007-10-15	Workshopped at Eratosphere
316	Drips from Psyche’s Lamp	Tell me you’re blind at night and I’ll believe you.	2008-04-13	Workshopped at Eratosphere
317	Opening a Jar of Dead Sea Mud	The smell of mud and brine. I’m six, awash	2008-05-03	Finalist (and #1 in the popular vote) in the 2008 Eratosphere Sonnet Bake-off
318	Noli Me Tangere	At first he wore a labourer's hat, with shovel brim, but he threw it	2008-05-06	Private copy provided by BJ Preston
319	Dancing Bride, The	When I was six, and dainty-footed, my parents sold me	2008-08-02	Published in AAP interview
320	Lilah		2009-02-01	Workshopped at the Gazebo	Date is an estimate. In the Eratosphere tribute thread for Maz, Petra Norr wrote, “About six months ago Maz posted a poem at the Gazebo. It was the last poem I saw her post and it was just before the Gazebo crashed. I'm pretty sure the poem was called ‘Lilah’. It was one of her ‘story poems’ -- that's how I thought of them. “Lilah was living in a tent, I think. It was in an earlier time period. There was an oil lamp in the tent...and Lilah's basket in the corner. There was something in the basket; Lilah had been out gathering or cutting herbs....there were scissors in the basket, though it might have been a knife. I remember Lilah picked up the scissors and suddenly cut off all her long, hair, so she had no hair left at all. Then she went outdoors -- I picture it as night -- and she cast the hair into the fire. Then Lilah went back into the tent and picked up a polished bowl. She could see her reflection in the bowl. She could see her small head, almost skull-like -- that was how the poem ended...”
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