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  week's picks
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172 - out of time

  59 - Out of this world

337 - out west

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  collected works

345 - i drop my cup and it breaks

344 - A Story in 300 Words

343 - arboretum

342 - let's

341 - geese make off

340 - a trying case

339 - i find myself in a vacuum

338 - Malacca

337 - out west

336 - The Last

335 - i can live without air

334 - matter

333 - unwrapping a present

332 - excellence

331 - i make my own fish from parts and pasts

330 - echo though she loved him so

329 - of trees of stands

328 - january

327 - disaster's own

326 - david hockney why
         did you paint the shadows but not their leaves

325 - you write poetry like a girl whatever
         that means

324 - naruto

323 - stop stop

322 - the dead leaves

321 - hash brag

320 - meagre, middling, mediocre your talents are

319 - jogging, my memory recalls, as a

318 - be

317 - elton comes on the radio in the cab at 4am to JFK

316 - because i almost crashed into a deer bigger than my car on the highway

315 - yet another needlessly complicated and extravagant demonstration of a
         hackneyed hollow point

314 - strawman

313 - woods and the trees

312 - a realist poem (alert to its own impulses)

311 - well

310 - sparrow, true

309 - the level playing field

308 - emasculate conception

307 - woke up thinking

306 - i nominate you for this challenge

305 - 100 degrees

304 - to air is human

303 - counting cards

302 - i see what you mean

301 - energy and articulation

300 - art bruised

299 - mine

298 - my heart

297 - sweets

296 - what you mean

295 - the living will set free

294 - rain drops

293 - i want you so bad that i'll

292 - empathy is a muscle

291 - it is written

290 - what ifs

289 - the horse ducks

288 - ahuman affair

287 - rise & shine

286 - pansy

285 - traffic

284 - atlas

283 - the king of sri lanka

282 - one day perhaps

281 - the rain storms

280 - sacrament

279 - diamonds are

278 - state of mine

277 - on the dhole

276 - thar she blows

275 - oh joy

274 - i cast my mom unto the sea

273 - within

272 - running up that hill

271 - pawn

270 - new love

269 - suddenly every thing spills      over the rim

268 - sail

267 - broken

266 - park lake

265 - golden

264 - life hacks

263 - Honeysuckle

262 - hijacker

261 - ersatz

260 - the fire rose

259 - i don't wanna fight i only wanna fuck

258 - &

257 - cabinet of charlatans

256 - buffalo

255 - i stop mid run to catch my breath and see

254 - displace

253 - currents

252 - the jackals

251 - Editing

250 - approaches

249 - order

248 - hope and anchor

247 - Love Struck

246 - In the bargaining

245 - Lost

244 - Retreat

243 - glimpse

242 - opal

241 - are

240 - falling off the edge of the earth

239 - Artificial intelligence

238 - pez

237 - way off

236 - #lovewins

235 - perfect sense

234 - value

233 - circadian

232 - iAm

231 - a song yet

230 - do not trust

229 - What is this you are making, alfie?

228 - somewhere

227 - the ample girl of leisure arrives at a milestone

226 - I killed an insect without thought today

225 - Let me tell you

224 - leaving "it all" behind

223 - as i am

222 - stent

221 - grand pa radox

220 - no longer

219 - index

218 - rita's stable

217 - potemkin village idiot

216 - hood

215 - another way of telling

214 - gloves

213 - i put it to you

212 - how is it

211 - Dry eyes

210 - Palimpsest

209 - in the end

208 - see sickness

207 - simply put somethings can never be

206 - pearl

205 - Exercise

204 - betta

203 - situ

202 - Fall

201 - We Are Struck

200 - What i am

199 - from the desert of my mouth

198 - movement, tilt and grain

197 - Flight

196 - aubade (mother and son on a morning school run)

195 - four feet to infinity

194 - Covering Creeley's The Flower

193 - Stardust

192 - something fierce

191 - lazarus

190 - jacks

189 - LEWD SONG

188 - if words should finally point to the real then to ginnie

187 - Auckland

186 - ride

185 - windows

184 - "the effect produced on the first reading is something like terror"

183 - for a few minutes this morning

182 - stream of consciousness

181 - only scratching the surface of an itch you cant

180 - any true state meant

179 - laid to rest

178 - how to build relationships

177 - like.  I  survived  Hugo.

176 - Limau Garden

175 - the girl   thedog   the beach

174 - another round

173 - persona

172 - out of time

171 - cave

170 - volcanic

169 - the last thing

168 - sold out

167 - every season

166 - everyone's having a go
         at it so will i

165 - Why

164 - A break

163 - While you were sleeping

162 - rising

161 - the wish

160 - This time

159 - the source of denial

158 - wind

157 - a thought

156 - shooting star

155 - titanic

154 - The body breaks

153 - Cross

152 - Missionary

151 - to whom it may concern

150 - paradise

149 - mundane. mediocre. meaningless.

148 - cold shoulder

147 - messiah

146 - B/W

145 - twelve things you learn about yourself on facebook

144 - stock

143 - Anthropocene

142 - tabled

141 - November Morning

140 - as surely you turn bourgeois

139 - Pirate copy

138 - What lies

137 - Course and if act

136 - The city of children

135 - Strength

134 - derail

133 - i think i'm falling in love

132 - Measure

131 - Reclamation

130 - Tiger

129 - something i have to tell you

128 - When you meet the one you just know

127 - Uncanny valley

126 - The last man

125 - Skirmish

124 - Waiting for my pants to dry

123 - and most can't it for i of

122 - Counsel

121 - #instapoem

120 - This must be the place

119 - ear infection

118 - Accomplished

117 - Father son

116 - Petroglyphs

115 - i close my eyes and count to ten

114 - In a tangle

113 - Feral

112 - Grasshoppers

111 - Medicine Man

110 - Cheem

109 - Equation

108 - Bull

107 - Ping Pong

106 - Selfie

105 - a real poem

104 - she loves NY but her heart baby...

103 - Tectonic

102 - Voyage

101 - saturdays

100 - blossom and bud

  99 - Morally erect

  98 - A day at sea

  97 - paracetamol

  96 - chord

  95 - Sub marine

  94 - risen

  93 - pov

  92 - offers you can't refuse to

  91 - making a scene

  90 - creature

  89 - a kestrel

  88 - regression to the means

  87 - Minefuck

  86 - personal computing

  85 - didact

  84 - impossible bottle

  83 - van brunt street

  82 - reverse engineering

  81 - the end of something

  80 - written on the wall

  79 - almost drowning out on the ocean

  78 - very

  77 - here to here

  76 - Concrete poem

  75 - Just

  74 - The Museum of Natural History

  73 - this space between us

  72 - Batu Caves

  71 - defeat

  70 - fluid dynamics

  69 - a poem is not an x-ray you

  68 - Tears

  67 - This poem needs something

  66 - Give them a meter they'll take a rhyme

  65 - What could be sadder than Martin losing his memory?

  64 - Turducken

  63 - If i'm not me then who the hell am i?

  62 - The Seven Pillars of the World

  61 - Promise

  60 - O Diana!

  59 - Out of this world

  58 - find yourself in a world where values you hold dear are become laughable

  57 - Making it now

  56 - Harking back to a past you never had

  55 - Another song

  54 - Documentary

  53 - hello ginnie

  52 - the thing

  51 - am put at

  50 - prospect of/a drowning

  49 - malice hurts

  48 - point of a rival

  47 - wreck

  46 - picture by my bedside

  45 - There is no room for fat people in pictures of love-making

  44 - 41/46

  43 - g.k.

  42 - R&R

  41 - photo of my mother her head to one side

  40 - sometimes this place gets so hot you just want to give up

  39 - chiangmai afternoon

  38 - long distance

  37 - Early morning in a hotel room at a seaside resort

  36 - FOG

  35 - a dream come true for

  34 - saturday nite

  33 - Gilbert

  32 - A boy laments the loss of his girl…

  31 - river

  30 - stole

  29 - In sooth

  28 - Pornography

  27 - offday

  26 - the last stand

  25 - trick of the write

  24 - observation post

  23 - Cast away

  22 - The Age

  21 - Street opera

  20 - drive

  19 - Profile Pictures

  18 - wild deer

  17 - Regarding The Funeral

  16 - archipelago

  15 - Like This

  14 - lost

  13 - breaking up

  12 - committing

  11 - the end of all that

  10 - i am a man

    9 - Politicking

    8 - prospect park improper haiku

    7 - chain reaction

    6 - i'm in Singapore on account of my mom being ill

    5 - the waiting room

    4 - easy does it

    3 - Resolution

    2 - Like Friction. Waves

    1 - i have decided at my age to run the marathon