Brian Phillip Kunde

The Two by Four Two Step
collected verses

(an Internet sampler)

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Contents
Contemplation

Acknowledgments

Part 1: Two by Four : and Other Poems

Tales
     Cap'n Jack
     Bum and Bee
     Coyote Cruises
Biota
     On the Bull
     Donkey and Elephant
     L. F. Ant
     Tree and Breeze*
     Potted Plant
     Pinnacle
Verse
     Little for Love
     Lame Verse Lament
     SonNet
     Returning Rhyme
     Two by Four
Libraries
     Bookworm
     Information Byway
     Ultra-Modern Library
     Got Books Here
     Book Bordello*
     To William, Bishop of Oxford
Stanford
     Libraries and Fleas
     Palm Drive Repaving
     Under Construction
     Oak Worms’ War
Work
     Work Week
     Backlog
     From Your Work

Part 2: Two Steps Ahead of the Shoe Police

Family
     Family Man
     Baby Wakes
     Domesticity
Fauna
     Captive of the Cat
     Submersible Mastodon
     Mammal à la Mowed (an Ode)
Whimsy
     I Didn't See a Duck
     Carpet Angels
     A Fleeting Thought
Mystery
     Melancholy Ink
     Metamorphic Topography
     Forty-One Cents
Sound and Fury
     Political Conventions
     Endangered Soles
     eGenesis
Legendry
     Gilgamesh
     Achilles
     Horatius
     Siegfried
     Arthur
     Robin Hood

Coda

Index to Titles and First Lines
Notes
*Contain mature themes or language.

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About the Collection.

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     The Two by Four Two Step: collected verses is a poetry collection by Brian Kunde, published as a chapbook by Fleabonnet Press in December, 2008. Earlier versions of some of these poems were previously published from 1992-1995 in the Stanford University Libraries' electronic newsletter SUL News Notes and College & Research Library News, and 1995-1996 on the Internet. This work is a combined edition of the author’s previous poetry collections Two by Four : and Other Poems (1996, third ed. 2000 (print), 2004 (internet)) and Two Steps Ahead of the Shoe Police : Poems (1998 (print), 2000 (internet)), with an additional piece from A Stanford Garland and Other Verses (2007 (print and internet)).
     This Internet sampler comprises the table of contents of the chapbook and the poems previously published online, essentially constituting an abridged edition of the chapbook.
     All pieces in this collection are copyrighted by the author. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this sampler, its constituent documents, or portions thereof in any form. Persons interested in making use of these materials or purchasing the chapbook should contact the author at: bkunde@stanford.edu.
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The Two by Four Two Step: collected verses

1st web edition posted 2/24/2010.
This page last updated 2/24/2010.

Published by Fleabonnet Press.
© 1992-2010 by Brian Kunde.