Introduction

 

Verse From The 1st Confraternity:

The Late Foundational Period

 

Hallway

Flowers

Mud

Crisis

Bloodshed

Communion

The Weight Of Guilt

I Know

Shreds

Get, Then, Out From My Head

Act

Potter’s Plot

The Disgrace Of Miss Ruth

Words Without Beauty, World Without Hope

Surprise

Anything

Happy Faced

Regret

Such Is Better Never Mentioned

On A Night Like This

Gold Street Mansion #7

 

Verse From The 2nd Confraternity:

The Early Sociopathic Era

 

To Make You Laugh! (That’s Laff)

Blameless

What Little Left Time

Callously More

Speak It

Low

I Know No Happy Songs

A Fine Day To Die

Back Again

Crip

A Charismatic Moment

A Place

Get Away!

The Sun Is Relentless

A Crime Without Passion Is No Crime At All

In These Very Pages

Idol

Winter Seasoning

Am I So Strange?

3 AM

Lost

The Someone

Nowhere To Turn

So Much Sister

A Season On The City Streets

The Path Taken

Phased

A Shoulder To Cry On

I Can

Scratch

Don’t Ask

Mowing Down Bunnies

Leaving Virginia

The Words

So Refined

You Can’t Change It

Considering It

Dawn

Lucifer, My Love

Oh God

Someone To Grow Old With

Daddy

Life’s Altering Course

Pepper

The Most Despicable Human On Earth

To Simply Be

 

Verse From The 3rd Confraternity:

The Prime Sociopathic Era

 

Plague

I Don’t Want This

Confusing Me

If I Write

Slipping

I Hate You, Part I

Li’l Bit

Storybook Color

Trying

The Real Idiot

Barbecue

Shudder

The King & The Wretch

Until I Drown

Present Past

Gypsy Wind

Clandestiny

Spiders Of The Twilight Sky

My Captive Smile

Even If

The Perfect Girl

Sometimes

Your Features

There’s Always Me

Tree Line

Despair

Hope

 

Verse From The 4th Confraternity:

The Late Sociopathic Era

 

Sardines

An Evening At The Underwood

Some People Need To Be Sad

The Have-Nots’ Delusion

Weep

Expire

Judgment Falls

Everyone But Me

The Withering Grass

Girl, Parts I & II

Would You Someday?

Yes Dear You

Dreams & Wishes

I Hate You, Part II

I’m Learning

Bury Me

Creature

Leaves Of A Dream

When Sweetness In My Vision Stands

Look At Yourself

Unhealthy

May I Dream?

Sleep ‘Til Sunday

Mannerisms

Closer

Little Things

Sad

Exhausted, Part I

Life Outside

Just Because I Can

Depression Sets

 

Verse From The 5th Confraternity:

The Intimate Period

 

Blindsight

Desiree

Philippians 4:8 (Reprise)

Perfection

When

All I Want

Reminiscent Fudge

I’m Not Bored

How I So Much Love

Who Am I?

Spit & Drizzle

Ask Anyone

One Tear

Comatose

M’lud

Asymmetrical

Rotten To The Core

Gamer

Shall I Not?

On Edge

Would I?

Exhausted, Part II

Angel’s Eyes

I’m Sorry, You Have A Pretty Smile

Fragrance

How To Meet The Model Equestrian

Murmur

Affection

Virgin

If You’re Going To

Adorable

Ornament

I Imagine

Prose Embodiment

Exquisite

Vaguely

Dear

 

Verse From The 6th Confraternity:

The Dissolution

 

On Searching For Her (That First Moment)

On First Employment

Sister Spirit

The Opening Of Gates

Inanimate

Insensitive King

The Night I Drove You Home

Child

Inept

Statues

Tribute To Eli Whitney

Cornered

Silently Brooding

The Death Of Self

Saunter & Sauce

Candy Kane Factory

Gravity

Rue

Obedient Expedience

Absolute Zero

Senility

George, From Carrie, X-mas 1902

They Were Only Words

Displacement

Watching Myself Die

A Healthy Fear

Three Complete Strangers

I Know Not Why I Weep

Blue

So

Plea-Bargaining With God

Elsewhere

Job

Shiver

Our Babel

As A Child

Good Friday

Observance

The Man On The Tractor

Poet-Re:

Match

Skippy

Speak With Aged

A Poem A Day Keeps The Money Away

Perfectly Timed Tears

Suddenly Ill

Healed

Godman

Two Blinks From Glitter Eyes

Java’s Palace, Sometime At Night, Parts I & II

 

Verse From The 7th Confraternity:

The Broken Era

 

Summer Love

Another Obscure Analogy For Two Evils

Six & Twenty

The Death Of Me Is Weak Speak

The Regulars

Talking At Once, Parts I, II, & III

Inferno

Ode To Cheapskates

Frightening Toys

On The Psychology Of Nature

Poetry Machine

Wake Up & Be Awful

Another Moment Passes

Bulk In Block Letters

Now, Here

Sudden Winter

How Very, Very Far Away

Edict

Irritation

Midday, 8th & Broadway, Late Autumn

Downtown Franklin, Afternoon

Letters Never Sent

The Printed Word

Imagining Her

In Black & White

Dishes

Crullers

One More Thing

Give Me New Eyes

Vinegar

 

© 2001 by Ryan Christian Hedegard