Category Archives: Poetry

Poems for ENAM170

How much suffering will learning’s name impose, Until at last these learnéd things fall short And fail to pacify the hell, Of life in educated misery…. An enigma; yet just as bound by laws of flesh and bone; We only fool ourselves with fantasies Of evading the world’s corporeality.

Reflections on Mongolia

Big Brother is watching, don’t say the

…[From Reflections on Mongolia | Chinggis Khan Moves to the City ]

Ger: A Voicethread

P.s. I really do not like Voicethread.

The original poem .

Poems => Digital

Timelessness embodied in its chests, The malchins’ mournful voice serenades his herd; A wood-framed home in a woodless land.

Ode to Pepto O Pepto, how gracious thou art Calming the stomach’s sea Thy fair complexion glows as a rose in Spring Thy taste, as sweet as the finest chalk.

Untitled Poem for ENAM 175 (Draft 1) 9/19/06

My brain floats behind my eyes, a storm of sparks thrown from woven currents— A writhing mass of computational fury. An enigma; yet just as bound by the laws of the flesh; We only fool ourselves to think it escapes this physical reality.

The observer sees my particular set of actions, reactions, expressions; This is all that defines me. There is no abstract I floating somewhere in grey [...]

METAL SONNET

Poetry Close Reading: Quarantine by Eavon Boland

HER VOICE IS TINLIKE FLOATING

Poetry Reflection

Grandpa Abe