-- Click Here to select a Poem -- How Much Weight Can a Teardrop Bear to Hold? Brain Aflame With Brimstone Candles Millennial Blues Haiku Walking Watercolor Gators Leavin' New York A Lost Midsummer Night's Song Tangy Metallic Taste of Tyrannosaurus Sax Marrow Sucked Dry Such Fragile Things Gliding Down Flaking Blacktop Ballroom Floors A Matter of Time I Get My Kicks On Route 666 Fingers Laced So Casually Flocks of Sleek Origami Cranes Into the Dark Noise Lonely As Floating Ice Wonderland Exile Whisper in the Ballet of Leaves And Still the Trains Scream Street Cinderella Ebb and Flow Prose of Ebon Crows Pulled Over in the Breakdown Lane Lavender Scent Rising From Her Pores Broken Animal Crackers It's Too Dark, Love Twilight Zone Lover Sweet Holy Mary Mother Dish Lipless Final Kiss Ozone-Scented Orgasm Through Gutter Grates A Rorschach Blot Puddle Electric Pegasus The Cat Blew Away That Midnight Day A Harlequin, Eyes All Afire Decanting Chianti Eyes Wafting Snow Felt Like Mourning I Dreamt I Stood Before Children Watches Bruised Skies Turn Maroon A Spell Cast in Forged Steel Lost Flock of Frozen Souls Pocket Fulla Butterflies Fallen Gods That's Just Between the Drowned and the Sane Salt Tides in Her Eyes Like A Lingering Dream I Hear Crow Banshees Call I Shivered at Phantom Whispers Atomic Sonata in Beef Major Hello Kitty is God Sitting in a Full-Throttle Plastic Pew Crocs Dragon Scales on Subway Rails Cheshire Cats Like Me Flash Smiles Why I'm Goin' Straight to Hell, 1978 Na, 1980 Corner of Madison and Warhol, 1984 Naked Fat Guy on the RR Line, 1987 Bullet Riders, 1988 Blowin' Past G.O.D. on Route 280 Two Wolves, 1988 Red-Tinted World of Slow Time, 1988 Time Warp Drops of Coffee-House Coolness And That Kiss Finally Comes Cocoa Pebbles Madness, 1989 Cobain au Cafe du Monde, 1994 Picasso at Limelight Bracelets of Torn Thoughts Tyrannosaurus Meds, 1997 Pulp, 1997 Three Brass Keys, 1998 Meet Me Under the Blue Whale, 1998 Feet of Clay in Steel-Toed Boots, 1999 Green Through-the-Looking-Glass Eyes, 2000 The Telephone Just Keeps on Screaming, 2001 Brittle Almost 6 Children of the Blade Edge of the Atmosphere's Sapphire Arc Chocolate Milk Spots Ned's Dead Adrenaline Soup Got Eyes Like Leeches Evil Flying Monkey Blues Pinches of Tender Yeti Tongue Elf Storage Apocalypse Lips A Fractured Guitar Floats Origami Notes Just Because On the Forty-Deuce Footfalls of The Dark Walker Snap-Crackle-Popped Hover Naked Binary Ojos de Gato Gaze Neon-Tinted Stigmata Glow Infant Sushi Dwellers in Perdition's Tiled Tunnels Blue-Flame Propane Black Blood in the Sandbox Warm Glow Pristine Mates of Sistine Paints Dig It Glissando Played on a Keyboard of Claws A Bullet's Piercing Prayers Leavin' the Grin of a Sinner Lays Down a Whisker Drum Snare Ethereal Boogie-Woogie Blast

Come on in, pull up a bar stool, and I'll buy you a pint and share a story or two. I'm Chris O'Shaughnessy, a native New Yorker with a taste for the Beats and punk, for Gershwin and Mississippi Delta blues slide guitar. So check out my poems, and let me know what you think.