Selected Poems

This eBook includes the gay love poem "Home, " the strange story of "The Gardener, " and the comical "Angels and Razors, " as well as thirty other poems. These works also appear in Duane Simolke's longer anthology Holding Me Together: Essays and Poems. Complete list of poems in this collection: Chasing Seagulls, Home, Album, Children in the Streets, The Gardener, Friday Afternoon Spectrum, Reception, second year, Angels and Razors, Separated, Faces, Songs In Sign Language, Forgotten, Higher Education, Family, Ex-Gay? Part I: Cocoon, Ex-Gay? Part II: The Ex-Me Movement, Ex-Gay? Part III: Who Does God Hate?, The Escape Artist, Daughter, The Same Lips, Pharisee, Anne Bradstreet, Bareback, Cycle, Cross, Two Rapes, Rainbow, Elephant on an Opera Stage, Detour, Editing, Process, Haiku. "An accumulation of thoughtful and moving poetry." -L.
L. Lee, author of Taxing Tallula. "The poems are rich in content and delicate in substance." -Grady Harp, author of Eros & Adonis: The Male Figure in Art History.