The Compleat Heretic's Publications: Poetry
This page was last modified on 2 March 2013. 
A personal web site must torment visitors with the webmaster's pretensions of being a poet. 
 
Collected Haiku: Winter/Spring 1978   (1978) A collection of adolescent haikus, many of which are surprisingly good 
Corvus   (1978) A pastoral quatrain 
The Publisher   (1978) A protest against violence and oppression 
The History of Annie Bryant   (1978) A protest against Anita Bryant and her anti-homosexual crusade 
Crazed Mystic Child   (1980) A reflection of the sentiment: "And I don't know who I am, but life is for learning." 
Bridge Burning   (1982) A pyromaniacal celebration of enlightenment 
Zarathustra's Disciple   (1982) An escape from the abyss of nihilism 
The Faith of a Compleat Heretic   (1998) A defense of intellectual honesty 
Japanese Exercises   (2000) A study comparing and contrasting the tanka and the haiku 
Heart of the Hunter   (2007) A lovelorn Orion seeks his Aurora 
Obama Couplet #1   (2013) A mocking of a demagogue on the occasion of his "Jedi mind meld" Star Wars-Star Trek solecism 
 
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