The Poetry of Gary Charles Wilkens at www.gcwilkens.com

Poems 2007

• Take Your Passion and Make it Happen
• Sunflowers by the Ocean
• Mayflies
• Plum Blossom
• Apologies
• There’s Just One Thing I Ask of You
• The Grim Business
• Lines Left Unfinished
• Strawberries in the Sun
• Lui, South Sudan
• Bus to Arizona, Age 7
• How You Pulled the Veil Back
• Litany
• In the Wilderness
• Rules for Writing Poetry
• Friend to the Homeless
• Radio Love Song
• The Bodies of Our Young Men
• Glass House
• Sevenling (Sign seen over a hippie's)
• Naked Pictures
• Certainties of Thighs
• Self-Portrait in an Expanding Universe
• Dead Cat
• Close to the Nerve
• Every Morning After Killing Thousands of Angels
• How Easy the Calculus
• Donkey Boy in the Streets of Cairo, 1921
• That’s Why I Got to Murder You Baby
• L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
• Angry Sex
• Going to See Bergman’s Joan of Arc at Night
• Orpheus and Eurydice
• Edited for Content
• 82 Mph On the NY State Thruway
• Arkansas Landscape with The River Styx
• Rachel in Heaven
• Standards of Beauty
• Melodies for Koto
• When I was Accused of Exaggeration in Love Poetry
• Scab
• Enemy
• 20th Century Child
• Geographer's Lament
• Will