100 Poems Under 100 Words

By Bill Yarrow

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. Excommunicado
2. Lunch Poem
3. Tariff Happy
4. Bone Density
5. Nan Sequiter
6. Not That Kind of Pain
7. The Tomb of Baudelaire
8. Chapel Access
9. A Journey of Seven Thousand Miles
10. The Lost Boys
11. Prowl Car
12. Self Alaska
13. Sin Curve
14. A River Runs Through Me
15. Meet the Beatles
16. Down Ballot
17. Pain
18. Son of Uncle Sam
19. Cranshaw on a Boat
20. It Can't Be, It Just Can't Be
21. The Rest Nowhere
22. Augustinian Prayer Sonnet
23. Abra Cadaver
24. You Can't Get There from Here
25. Bees in the Eaves
26. Pink
27. Song of Unself
28. The Way It Never Was
29. Kansas City Underwear Festival
30. The Death of Sherwood Anderson
31. Precipice of Questions
32. The Tapeworm of Selfish Mammon Eats All the Goodwill in the
World
33. Bow Wow
34. Julia
35. A Piece of Him
36. Sin Embargo
37. Ratatouille
38. Auto Imperative
39. Eli in the Middle of the Night
40. Language Out of Water
41. Before the Door
42. Parabola Tango
43. Visiting Our Slab
44. The Rinsed Messiah
45. Inmate Words
46. Sermon of Lilac
47. In My Hometown
48. Black Squirrel Poem
49. In the Seagull Colony
50. 1962
51. Not Enough Sin to Go Around
52. J'Recluse!
53. A Thousand Books
54. A Brave Night to Cool a Courtesan
55. Every So Often
56. Anthropometamorphism
57. Villon, Stop Following Me Around
58. Laundry List
59. The Vig of Love
60. Metro Retrofitting
61. Spontaneous Tranquility
62. Mother and Son
63. Machete
64. Couplehood: Year Seven
65. Abraham
66. Absence
67. Anniversary Waltz
68. Get a Grip
69. Five'll Get You Ten
70. The Exit Towards Fire
71. Go, Unlovely Trump
72. Bare Ruined Palace
73. Holy Week
74. Peterson Park
75. Satan and the Moon
76. The Sober Boat
77. Mad Love
78. The Separation
79. Fealty
80. Kicking Out the Enjambs
81. Manet Nightmare
82. 8 New Ways of Looking at Waffles
83. Stendhal Nightclub
84. Emptiness and Absence
85. The Famous Writers I Like
86. Just the Facts
87. Pruning
88. Skirmishes with Wastrel Invaders
89. Collect Enough Fragments, You've Got Yourself a Poem
90. Not a Villanelle
91. Turbulence
92. Epithalamion
93. Sacrifices of Famished Promise Made to Apology
94. Artefact
95. Crete
96. Theorizing Salsa
97. Go, Bid the Soldiers Shoot
98. The Concord of this Discord
99. He Holds an Expired Visa and a Monday Grudge
100. Something, He Wrote

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bill Yarrow
• Release date: May 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9781310340703

Bill Yarrow

Bill Yarrow is the author of "Critique of Pure Dreaming" available for free at Smashwords , "Accelerant" from Nixes Mate Books, "Against Prompts" from Lit Fest Press, "The Vig of Love" from Glass Lyre Press, "Blasphemer" from Lit Fest Press, "Pointed Sentences" from BlazeVOX, and six chapbooks—"Flying Blind" from Yavanika Press, "We All Saw It Coming" from Locofo Chaps, "The Lice of Christ" from MadHat Press, "Incompetent Translations and Inept Haiku" from Červená Barva Press, "Fourteen" from Naked Mannekin Press and "Wrench" from Erbacce Press. He is professor emeritus of English at Joliet Junior College where he taught creative writing, Shakespeare, and film.

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