The Poetic Scribblings of Ella McCrystle
(An incomplete collection of previously published works)

"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."
              ~ William Butler Yeats

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Interviews and Articles: An essay written on the practice of writing a poem per day, "My Bitter Battle With the Muse", first published in Quintessence Magazine has now been reprinted several times. Included are links to three poems (of frustration) about the practice.
Spacebreather,
July 2003

Interview and Poems
QuietPoly Writer's Magazine: December 2003
Interview and Poems

Individual poems:

Riding Jack Kerouac
Frank O'Hara Gets My Reuptake
Worshipping with Burroughs
Bourgeois PushMe-PullMe
Death with a Pipe in the Living Room
Beethoven at My Window
breakfast talk
Tempting Salvation
Non-lucid dreams while waking
Planes of Existence
Escalator of Babel
Grasping Time
Dear Sister... You Forgot
I’d Rather Be Your Judas Goat
Call Me Zelda
Not the Confessional
Non-Symphony in the Key of Stenosis
The Tower Tumbles
Sense versus Sensuality in the Shaving of Legs
Unwritten Letter to Mother #274
Unwritten Letter to Mother #5932
I Am Not Pompeii
voodoo-splashin'
Fungi
The Length of Changing
Shades of Gray
Unseen Surfaces
Unredeemed
A Slice of Life
My Crucifix
Truisms from My Father
Recipe for Sunday Dinner
Community Flowers
Carnal Concerto
Past Her Prime
Doctor No
Depression
Night Creeps
The Cycle Repeats
Closing Stanza
Boeuf Gras
They Run in Packs
Despite the Rocky Sea
Silver Matters
February 13
The Needle's Damage Undone
I wonder why it's chartreuse
I'm HIV+. Can I Give You A Hug?
Flying
Lay me Down with Sun
Life in Death
Survivor
Lines
For Anne Sexton
Feith in Autumn
Do you know I have Magic Eyes?
Almost
Theory of Tears
Depression
Crystalline Symphony
Extermination
The Serpent's Offer
Predictions
hinges
Every Goddess Bleeds

...currently published poems are found on the main index page


Poetry © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Ella McCrystle.

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