CLOSE
a poetry collection

published 6 October 2001

From:
Darius, Julian. CLOSE. St. Louis, Missouri: Gentle Scorpion Press, 6 October 2001.

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"Contents"
by Julian Darius

Traveler1
Feminism7
Clinton8
upon the signing of the yearbook of a much beloved yet distant girl9
Ode to Glorious Women10
Eighty-eight11
NIGHT13
Vespucci14
Letter to The New Yorker15
That Poetry Feeling16
Mother18
Me19
M&Ms20
William, Not Bill21
I Don’t Understand22
Union23
A Perhaps Unadvised Approach25
Upon Searching for a Graduate School26
The Hierarchical Sight of The Modern Diogenes27
Thus Spoke The Immortal28
Pantyhose Legs and Leather Briefcases29
A Tale of Love in Seven Parts31
Epiphany34
Beat Your Wives35
Like a Prayer; Indeed36
A Strange Sort of Identity37
I Love You38
the Why and the Fair39
Platonic Sandwiches40
Sun Dreams41
Orally Fixated Prayers42
Poor Judgment43
Happiness44
Frail Lunatics: An Accusation45
The Man, The Moon46
About the Author47
Praise the Mundane48
POETRY49
nature50
Grocery List51
Withering Buds52 [92 | 93]
A Little Document53
What I Do, Modestly Stated54
Marketing Genius55
Observations on Modern Medievalism56
Beautiful Clinton Poem57
Observe:58
Favorite Quote:63
Mr. Jones and Me64
Colonizing Relativity, Capitalizing Tolerance67
“Only a woman?”68
Did Darwin Conceive of This?69
Greatness by Proximity73
Dissemination: Penetration (Insemination)77
The Dirty Man78
The Masque
(Read by Candlelight at the Start of
Each / Every / All / The Only True Party)79
Upon “Upon Searching for a Graduate School”86
Upon “Upon ‘Upon Searching for a Graduate School’”87
Big Muddy, Big Mudder88
The Great Daisy Chain of Being89
Improper Usage90
Contents92
I Enclose This with My Submission94

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Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 by Julian Darius. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever, including electronic, without documented permission except for brief excerpts used for review purposes.