Poetry

Selected poems from the FITK archives by Professor Batty (except where noted):

2024
Mailboxes of Santa Fe
Tombstone For A Child (Icelandic)
Grandma’s Creek
The Old Farm

2023
Ode to Barbie
Pews

2022
3 Thousand Miles and 12 Billion Years

2019
Dreams on a Winter Afternoon
Faded Love

2018
Party Animals
a is for arbus
Summer Love (J. Derbis)
Red Sun
Sunday Night Fervor

2016
Street Candy
The Love of an Adolescent (Wanda Gág)
The Bill Dale Story (J. Derbis)
Miracle on 36th
Batty’s Icelandic Night Before Christmas

2015
Endless Summer
It’s All Too Beautiful
Found Lyrics
Girls’ Night Out

2014
Imagine (Y. Ono)
Imagination

2013
Archetype
Wasted Days…
Phone Call
Golden Boy

2012
Sweet Dreams…
Two Girls
Sunday Night Shopper

2011
Basement Arousal
Best Friends Forever
Antiquing Aftermath
The Letter

2010
January Thaw
epiphany
Luncheon on the Grass
In an English Country Garden
Yellow Dog Contract
Whispering Pines

2009
Parallel Reality
Don’t Change Your Hair For Me
Adrift
Waitress
The Dawn Chorus
Dairy Queen
L’Opera dei Dannati
Take Our Picture
can you hear it?

2008
Love in a Balloon
Party Animals
Linger
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Every Child’s Mother
BC Girls
Ruin
I Remember You…
Sad Songs of Love and Desire
Highway 41 Revisted
The Door
Road Trip

2007
Morning Poems of Love
Mona Lisa Smile
The Seduction
Beautiful Kisses
Twinned
I Really Don’t Want to Know

2006
The Aging Diva
lines. (RS)
Unravel (Batty and Björk)
Where Will My Eden Be? (RS)
twilight
puzzle pieces (RS)
a child, a woman
You Smell so Good
pohm about wine (RS)
Empty House
Hope Never Dies
just. call me. (RS)

2005
Be the Man
Snow (J. Derbis)
sunrise. (RS)
Skinny Moon
Summer Like A Drug
The Beast Within
My Resistance is Futile
She’s Changed
I Know You

2004
The Silence
4X4X4
I Want You
Cream, Any One?
Pink ‘N’ Black
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