Mike Barker's Written Pieces

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Some old bits and pieces -- poetry, prose, and dust

submission: mommy dearest
submission: toe-tapping tunes
submission: poem (giving it the benefit of the doubt:-)
submission: an ecumenical miracle (xmas story, sort of)
submission: A Resonant Silence (YAP)
SUB: A Country Tale
SUB: A Senatorial Nightmare
SUB: A Boy Scout
SUB: 2 poems
SUB: Not Dead Yet (Poem)
SUB: The Japanese Spirit (Draft 1)
SUB: A Japanese Spirit (vers. B, rev. 1)
SUB: Family Cookbook
SUB: Sci Fly High
SUB: Lizard Thoughts
SUB: Belt and Suspenders
SUB:They Don't Write 'em Like This Anymore (Thank Heavens)
SUB: Death Be Not Bright
SUB: WRITERS
SUB: Fragmentation
SWB: Snarkly Veldt
SUB: The Fairy and The Nymph - A Love Story
SUB: Toe-Tapping Tunes
SUB: A Writer's Coda, Perhaps...
SUB: A Short Fly to Left Field
SUB: Crossing the Delaware
SUB: Such Lovely Smoke
SUBtle(NOT!): nuisance dust? don't look at me...
SUB: Someone's Calling
SUB? A bit of color
SUB: An Education on Wilshire Boulevard
SUB: R.I.P. (again)
SUB: Anniversary Ballgame
SUB?: re: Recent poetry on the list,
SUB: The Chalice
SUB: Once in Every Life
SUB: Mirror, Mirror, What's This List?
SUB: West Meets East: Where Misunderstanding Rules
SUB: 100 Words of Aluminium Warp
SUB: OWC: exercises for you
SUB: Post-Modern Froggy Tale
SUB: Whoops!
SUB: A Most Serious Poem
SUB: Ghost Writers
SUB: A Foundered Pot
SUB: unneat post
SUB: Baptism in Flames
SUB: That Old Home Lasagna
SUB: Circles
SUB: Word Drill
SUB: IPU News Report - December 1, 1993
SUB: Gold Or Silver?
SUB: TJ quickies!
SUB: Another Epistle to the Writers
SUB: A Very Short Unstory
SUB: Broken Words
SUB: Footprints of Clay
SUB: An Answer
SUB: Twisted Write Off! (EMBARRASSING!)
SUB: was it good for you?
SUB: The Uninhibited Writer's Guide to Safe Intercourse
SUB: A Story of The Puppy in The Alley
SUB: Nipper
SUB: Now Hiring
SUB: Not A Story
SUB: Come On, Guys
SUB: A Hike
SUB: T.V. Blues (may be depressing)
SUB: The rejected lady...
SUB: That Paragraph Exercise
SUB: March 15th - A Japanese Train Ride
SUB: A PROSE
SUB: Public Works
SUB: A Taste of Cherryblossoms
SUB: Morning Java
SUB: Not Just Another Roadkill
SUB: Writing's Epitaph
SUB: Gameplayers' Review: Don't Miss This One
SUB: The Anecdote Punchline Game
SUB: The Anecdote Punchline Game (The Elf)
SUB: That Wonderful Day
SUB: Critters of the Down Under
SUB: The Long and Winding Road
SUB: Governor's School For Humanities
SUB: How Long...
SUB: The Customer Is Always Right!
SUB: Blackboard Jungle
SUB: The Uniform Society
SUB: On The Spur of the Moment (UNGRAPHIC)
SUB: Write Start
SUB: Polishing Off
SUB: Summer Thoughts
SUB: The Hike (100 words)
SUB: A Muse Speaks
SUB: The Hike (100 words-rev.2)
SUB: Something A Little More Meaty
SUB: Dark and Light
SUB: Behind You
SUB: nice gynes
SUB: Burying the Beast
SUB: A Fall Morning
SUB: What is Truth?
SUB: Wendy? You called?
SUB: Electric Light Rendition
SUB: A Van Gogh Sky
SUB: Deafened by the Distant Fire of Canons
SUB: (nonfiction) The Web (or why spiders don't fall down...)
SUB: Flying with Friends
SUB: Valentine's Poem?
SUB: A Little Snowfall (Feb. 21st, 1995)
SUB: Classic Tension (peom)
Subject: FILLER: Cognitive Distortions
SUB: Straw Men
SUB: a wild kitchen
SUB, POETRY: Breathstrokes
FILLER: Practice Makes Prolific
SUB, ESSAY: The Mission
SUB, POEM: Rutabaga Dreaming (rather silly)
FILLER: nyet poesy
SUB: The Elusive Scent (a prose)
SUB, POTTERY: sacre!ligious incre!dible
SUB, POOR POETRY: Demeaning A Wild Verb
SUB: A Bit of Broken Verse
SUB: They believe...
SUB: Where Do Birds Sleep?
SUB: Who Will Break The Cycle?
SUB, ESSAY: The Writer, The Writing
SUB, POEM: A Response To Stimuli
SUB: 'Studs on the Internet'
SUB: Re: A Death in the WRITERS Family