Introduction

 

I.  Entries

 

Fido (Early June, 2001.  One Sat Night.)

Cross-Hatch: In Response To The Slightest Stir

12-10-01

Sometime around Christmas, 2001

01-02-02

03-10-02

04-08-02

Fri Night, Beck & Rog’s, Fairview

Sat Afternoon, Broadway Music, Nashville

Sat Night, Todd & Lizzie’s, Sylvan Park

Thu Morning, Second Story Cafe, Green Hills

Fri Night, 12th & Porter, Nashville

Fri Night, En Route To Beck & Rog’s Fairview

Sat Night, Beck & Rog’s, Fairview

Wed Afternoon, Broadway Music, Nashville

Tue Night, Belmont University, Nashville

Thu Morning, Broadway Music, Nashville

07-08-02

Corresponding to the first day of class, 07-02

Corresponding to the second day of class, 07-02

Corresponding to the first weekend, 07-02

07-15-02

Supplemental for 07-15-02

07-19-02

07-22-02

07-28-02

07-29-02

08-04-02

08-20-02

09-17-02

Undated

 

II.  Essays

 

ENG 110: On “Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant”

ENG 110: Ethnography Prewriting

ENG 110: Ethnography Artifact

ENG 110: Ethnography Character Sketches

ENG 110: Ethnography

ENG 110: Ethnography Critical Evaluation

ENG 110: Ethnography Self Evaluation

PSY 110: Stressors In My Life

ENG 212: On William Blake’s “Songs....”

ENG 212: On William Blake’s “Proverbs....”

ENG 212: On Jane Austen’s “Persuasion”

ENG 212: More On Jane Austen’s “Persuasion”

ENG 212: On The Film Adaptation of “Persuasion”

ENG 212: In Ruin My Abbey Lies

ENG 212: An Exercise In Listening

ENG 212: On Keats’ Melancholia

ENG 212: On Lord Tennyson’s “Light Brigade”

ENG 212: On “Crossing The Bar” & “Prospice”

ENG 212: God’s Grandeur (Paraphrased)

ENG 212: Proficiency In Bunburying

ENG 212: Further Bunburying

ENG 212: ‘Til Death Do They Part

ENG 212: “The Dead” Brought To Life

ENG 212: Prufrock: Typical Me

ENG 212: A Music Un-Collection

ENG 212: Fitting Epitaphs

ENG 212: Finding My Fathers

TDR 352: The Great Debate

TDR 352: “The Wall” As Postmodern Theatre

TDR 352: Lessons From Gen-Ed

 

III.  Poems

 

These Guarded Thoughts

Take Me Through

Skip, The Lonely

This Perch

Heat

Barfly

Sometimes, The Voice Of God

In The Lighting

Jordan’s Send Off

Thursday Early

Love Letters In The Drive

A First Time In Austin

Before Again Winter Beds

Cologne

Spring Cleaning

Thought-Life

Others Still Live

At Work

10-17-01

Sabbath

Irrepressible You

Smiling At Pages

17 (A Third Poem For Dycee)

Ailment #894

Unscene

For No Other Ears

Tangible Skin

Before Noon In The Sun

My Hands Are Old

Black ‘N Tan

The Noblest Profession

Idol Worshippers

Seasonostalgia

My Murderous Dreams

Foliage

Bronze

Creeping In

Saint American

Ye39ar

House Without A Key, For Cocktails

Galaxy Restaurant & Coffee

Photographs Rule The Earth

The Orchid

In Blue With White Apron

Check Out Time, As I Sit

Pass Riding

Dropping

Kamaole Sands

Travel Plaza Transport 54

Haole

Announcement

Too Much White Conversation

Hat Guy (Or Rather, I Think He Wore A Hat)

Snorkeling

Tiny Bubbles

Halley

Houston, Even

Davis-Kidd

First Day Back

Nouveau Tennessee Redneck Family

Tuesday

Third

Happy Anniversary

A Quick Bite & A Write

The World Is Not For Me

Physics

Subway 6” Cold Cut With Everything & Coffee #3

We Never Had The Follow Up

Plans For A Business Card

At The Gym

Vile, Vile, Vile, Vile, Vile (Tummy Ache)

The Great Thing About Death

Back At The Dealership

Taught By Celebrities

The Wonderful Thing About Being A Poet

Cap In Quotes

Bed Is Calling

The Helena Bonham Carter Type (Ooops)

Craving

The Texan Thinks Of Texas

The Musical Experience

These Hours Are From Hell

The Chaos Returns

One Friday

Where Scenarios Begin

The Path Of Most Resistance

The Worst That Could Happen

In Season

The Miracle

Further Car Trouble

Non-Specific Autumn Mince

Ryan’s Theme

Stage Left

Rapid-Fire Heart

Naysayer

My Bleeding Pen

Vehement Vehicle

Body Wash

Network Of Tinder

Easy To Please

A Fresh Wound

Love At 1st Sight

 

IV.  Songs

 

Breath

I Have It

Someone Will Treasure You

That Tone

How Have I Missed You?

Brace Yourself

Tiny Little Words

Breathe When This Is Over

Trying Not To

Crying Alone

Let’s Just Do It

In Your Door

That’s Sensational!

Married Games

None Of Us Heroes, Not Even One

I Accomplished Nothing

My Heart Sinks

One More Time

Plausible Afternoon

Elvis Costello

Other Men’s Wives

I Wonder What She Looks Like

Stop The Wheels

Don’t You Hate Your Life?

It Brings Itself

The Person Nobody Wants To Be

Nothing’s Gonna Happen

The Failure With The Best Attitude

Disheartened

Who Stopped Praying For Me?

Allow Me To Feel

It No Longer Suffices

Leave Your Old Person In The Car

This Is It, Then

Always Ready To Cry

The Only One In The Room

How Can Anybody Live Without Love?

Sleep For Me

Still Make Me Cry

When I Look Back

The Never Agains

You Used To Seduce Me

I’ve Already Found My Fortune

 

© 2003 by Ryan Christian Hedegard