Don Zirilli

Evidence of Donald Zirilli.

Book

Heaven's Not For You @ Amazon

Published Poems

After Agreeing to Tell You my Innermost Thoughts

Allison's Outfit

America Loves Kanye West

American Glinda

Answering the Crumbs

Aquaman the Vampire Rapist Who then Finds Jesus

Aunt Enid Smokes a Cigarette

Backyard Enlightenment

Bakelite Recorder

Between the Butcher and the Future

The Boy Who Is Screaming

Building Up To It

Burning Bridget Cleary

Can Machines Think?

The Chess of Loneliness

Childish Behavior at the Minisink Target

The Circumstances Under Which Two Players May Consider Themselves Drawn

Completely Connected

Composition for Violin

Controlled Descent

Daphne and the Decision Tree

Dinah Washington in the Land of Hi-Fi

Drawing Lessons

The Dreams That You Dare to Dream

Driving Home from Your Wake

Duress Rehearsal

Dying in the Twenty-First Century

The Etymology of an Embrace

Everyday Amnesia

Everything is Broken Somehow

Extenuating Circumstances

Finding the Perfect Domain Name

The First Time I Died (page 54)

Five Year Old Blind Girl Playing Piano

Footnotes to the Fifth Edition of my Life

Forgetting the Smallest Things

From the French Directions for Assembling a Wheelbarrow

From the Walkway I See What Is Essentially a Field of Beautiful Dead Flowers

Functional MRI of the zebra finch brain during song stimulation suggests a lateralized response topography

Garbaggio's David

The History of Line Breaks

Hurricane on the Rocks

I Put a Spell On You

I Want to Call Everything Marlene

I Wanted Not To Write This Poem

I Write for the Helen Keller Child

I’m Now Ready To Critique Your Abstract Painting

If There Is an Ocean It Is Here

The Impossibility of What We Are Doing While It Is Not Being Done

In Memory Boxes

In the Midst of Describing

Incidental Obituary

Innocence in the House of Fiberglass Bats

Is This a Game to You?

Jimmy Ernst among the Indians

Knight Approaching Distant Castle

Learning to Ride a Bicycle With Attendant Vulture

A Letter From the Country

Life Cycle Management

Liza Minnelli Paints Her Toenails

The Making of Don Quixote

A Man Speaks to his Tormentor

The Men of Cardio Rehab

A Meeting of the Green Township Historical Society

The Monkey House

Ms. Davis, While Barely Having Begun Developing the Muscle Discipline Required for “The Gaze”, Receives the Following 95 Director’s Notes After Early Rehearsals for “Donovan’s Brain” Which She Nails To The Door of Her Bathroom

Mulberry Junior High Presents Jesus Christ Superstar

My Father's Heart

My Mother Won't Let Go

Mystery Protein ORF10

Narcissus Describes the Lake

Night Clouds with Fingers

The Night Supervisor of the Clipping Library at the New York Times

Nights Out And In

Ode to a Virtual Cupcake

On the Lawn Tonight with Pippa

Orange Moon Invades Newark

The Poet Who Hates Birds

Pornographic Fortune Cookies

Prayer to St. Paphnutius, Feast Day September Eleventh

Quietest Plastics

Riots in Cornerstan

Rooster Like to Play the Chicken

The Sad Story of Waded Cruzado and her Battle Against Fading Falsities

Seen From An Escalator

A Series of Paintings by Jimmy Ernst on the Broken Glass of His Mother’s Bedroom Window

Several Well-Marked Colors Are Commonly Seen in Zinnias

Some Borders Should Not Be Crossed

A Spell Against Memory

Springtime for Truth

Statues Can't Breathe

A Story Reconstructed By Witnesses

The Sussex County Poetry and Nature Society

Teaching the Dog to Write

Things That Make Me Dizzy

The Transgender Moment

Translated From Inuit

Urinal for a Futurist

Venice a Be Verb

The Walking Talking Cure

Waves Break All the Time

Wayne/Route 23 Transit Center

Weeding the Path

What Dee Knows About Africa

The World Will End as Your Beard Ends

You Are Invited to Speak

You're So Young