Poems from 1996

All of these poems are copyright M.A. Mohanraj 1996, all rights reserved. Please don't repost them or make them publically accessible via FTP, mail server, or archive site without my explicit permission. Permission is granted for one hard copy for personal use.

1. An Agnostic's Easter Morning
2. Blue Spring Thinking
3. Brief Reunion
4. The Case Against Entropy
5. Child Seen Through a Glass, Darkly
6. *Cobalt Blue
7. Delayed Warmth, Much Wished For
8. Dissolving Castles (a villanelle)
9. Dogwood Drift
10. Emotion Triumphs Over Form
11. Final Farewell
12. Five Years Into It, She Considers
13. Fractured Haiku
14. I have not said enough fond goodbyes
15. love once rising bright
16. The Lover Speaks, Again (sonnet)
17. Memory Tears Upon Close Examination
18. *My Dad is Scared of Dragons (kids')
19. No Solace, Even in Words
20. One Week After Departure
21. Pity the Children
22. Reassurance (sonnet)
23. Snake Swallowing Its Tail
24. Sri Lanka, Summer of '95
25. Sweet Innocent Goes Hungry Again
26. The Taste of Him
27. Tentative Conclusion: Love is More Powerful than Poetry
28. Unabashed Paean
29. *You'll Understand When You're Older, Dear
30. You'll Understand...(Finnish translation)

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