38 Poems Under 100 Words

38 Poems Under 100 Words

Bill Yarrow

Poetry

38 poems under 100 words. These poems appear in Pointed Sentences (BlazeVOX 2012), Incompetent Translations and Inept Haiku (Cerevana Barva Press 2013), The Lice of Christ (MadHat Press 2014), and Blasphemer (Lit Fest Press 2015).38 Poems Under 100 Words 1. Excommunicado 2. Bone Density 3. Nan Sequiter 4. Not That Kind of Pain 5. Chapel Access 6. A Journey of Seven Thousand Miles 7. The Lost Boys 8. Prowl Car 9. Self Alaska 10. Pain 11. Son of Uncle Sam 12. Cranshaw on a Boat 13. The Rest Nowhere 14. Bees in the Eaves 15. Pink 16. The Death of Sherwood Anderson 17. Precipice of Questions 18. The Tapeworm of Selfish Mammon Eats All the Goodwill in the World 19. Julia 20. A Piece of Him 21. Ratatouille 22. Before the Door 23. Parabola Tango 24. Sermon of Lilac 25. In My Hometown 26. Black Squirrel Poem 27. Not Enough Sin to Go Around 28. Anthropometamorphism 29. Villon, Stop Following Me Around 30. Abraham 31. Bare Ruined Palace 32. Holy Week 33. Peterson Park 34. Mad Love 35. The Separation 36. Kicking Out the Enjambs 37. Not a Villanelle 38. He Holds an Expired Visa and a Monday Grudge These poems appear in Pointed Sentences (BlazeVOX 2012), Incompetent Translations and Inept Haiku (Cerevana Barva Press 2013), The Lice of Christ (MadHat Press 2014), and Blasphemer (Lit Fest Press 2015).
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The Participle Poems

The Participle Poems

Bill Yarrow

Poetry

Twenty poems by Bill Yarrow, mostly title participles and a couple of gerunds with fake IDs.Twenty poems by Bill Yarrow:1. Playing for Keeps2. Burying the Hatchet3. Staring at Waves4. Searching for the Word5. Looking at Waffles (8 Different Ways)6. Drinking an Orange Julius While Listening to Pink Floyd7. Crossing the Center Line 8. Getting Home Alive9. Annulling the Future10. Theorizing Salsa11. Playing Pinochle in Your Snout12. The Knitting Needle13. The Learning Curve14. The Sticking Point15. Not Drowning16. Just Foundering17. Disappearing Ink18. Ash Coming on Second Wednesday19. Here's Looking at Euclid20. Villon, Stop Following Me Around!
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Fourteen

Fourteen

Bill Yarrow

Poetry

Fourteen 14-line poems by Bill Yarrow; selected + arranged by Matthew S. Barton; Naked Mannekin Press, Chicago, 2011; OUP. Eyes off the Road, Hitting the Wall, Bogdan, Love and How It Gets That Way, Joan of Dark, Stevie’s Knees, George, Nothing Beside Remains, Four Noble Lies, The Proud Accounting, Uncle Moscow, Raw Salt, Gabrielle in Arrears, Picking the Bark off Experience.Fourteen fourteen-line poems by Bill Yarrow selected and arranged by Matthew S. Barton. Originally published by Naked Mannekin Press in 2011. OUP. 1. Eyes off the Road. 2. Hitting the Wall. 3. Bogdan. 4. Love and How It Gets That Way. 5. Joan of Dark. 6. Stevie’s Knees. 7. George. 8. Nothing Beside Remains. 9. Four Noble Lies. 10. The Proud Accounting. 11. Uncle Moscow. 12. Raw Salt. 13. Gabrielle in Arrears. 14. Picking the Bark off Experience.You should be calling 911, wavingat headlights, flagging down trucks, pullingyour bleeding husband from the car. Insteadyou’re just staring at your hands as if somehowthey were imperious tools capable of magic.(from "Gabrielle in Arrears")
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