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    The White Porcelain Well
    WessMongoJolley
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    Poems, East Village, New York City.
        
        The White Porcelain Well evokes both the inner and outer landscapes of New York City's gay village.  Written mostly in coffee houses and all-night diners over the course of several years, these poems attempt to capture the denizens of the East Village in all their magic, mystery, joy, pathos and heartbreak.  These are poems of love, yearning, youth, aging, loss, and memory, all played out against the backdrop of Manhattan's towering spires and gritty back alleys.
        
        If you enjoy The White Porcelain Well, follow me at http://wessmongojolley.com, and watch for the release of my novel, The Last Handful of Clover, coming here to WattPad in June of 2021!
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    Table of contentsLast updated Feb 22
    • DEDICATION
    • Conjuring the Portal on 2nd Avenue
    • 1:00 am
    • Taste of Spring in an Early Winter Chill
    • Undetectable Viral Load
    • The Date
    • Overheard in New York: Union Square Street Kid
    • Cafe Grande, Double Latte, Espresso with Double Cream, Chai with Milk and Sugar
    • CIA Torture-Persecution: A (mostly) found poem by Alexander De Filippi
    • The Last of the Agar
    • Overheard in New York: Washington Square Park, Ninja Street Performer
    • 59th Street Bridge Song
    • So Little Light Finds Its Way Into Our Alley
    • Overheard in New York: The Bowery, Doorman
    • Urban Flies
    • Washington Square Park
    • Agent Rex
    • Eight Scavengers
    • 2:00 am
    • Clumsy Instruments
    • New York Argues Against the Existence of God in Union Square
    • Excavation
    • Asymptote
    • Mortification Venti
    • An Excellent Day to Disappear
    • Alternatives to the Chainsaw
    • Sometimes The Noise
    • Entropy
    • My Words
    • The Turtle and Me
    • 3:00 am
    • Last Kids Picked
    • New York Argues for the Existence of God in Central Park
    • Thalassophobia
    • Diego
    • Black Granite
    • Summer Dragons
    • In the Hotness Battle Between East and West the Terrorists are Winning
    • Invocation of a Stranger
    • Sham Man
    • Christopher Street Leather, New York City
    • The Taste of the Living Ocean
    • Business Expenditures
    • 4:00 am
    • Instructions to Achieve Flight in New York City
    • The Reconciliation
    • Grimoire
    • Espressomancy
    • 20 Pieces of Advice, Sent to My Younger Self, to be Opened June 15, 1978
    • Love as a Verb of Being
    • Manhattan's Arms
    • 5:00 am
    • Promises
    • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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    • DEDICATION
    • Conjuring the Portal on 2nd Avenue
    • 1:00 am
    • Taste of Spring in an Early Winter Chill
    • Undetectable Viral Load
    • The Date
    • Overheard in New York: Union Square Street Kid
    • Cafe Grande, Double Latte, Espresso with Double Cream, Chai with Milk and Sugar
    • CIA Torture-Persecution: A (mostly) found poem by Alexander De Filippi
    • The Last of the Agar
    • Overheard in New York: Washington Square Park, Ninja Street Performer
    • 59th Street Bridge Song
    • So Little Light Finds Its Way Into Our Alley
    • Overheard in New York: The Bowery, Doorman
    • Urban Flies
    • Washington Square Park
    • Agent Rex
    • Eight Scavengers
    • 2:00 am
    • Clumsy Instruments
    • New York Argues Against the Existence of God in Union Square
    • Excavation
    • Asymptote
    • Mortification Venti
    • An Excellent Day to Disappear
    • Alternatives to the Chainsaw
    • Sometimes The Noise
    • Entropy
    • My Words
    • The Turtle and Me
    • 3:00 am
    • Last Kids Picked
    • New York Argues for the Existence of God in Central Park
    • Thalassophobia
    • Diego
    • Black Granite
    • Summer Dragons
    • In the Hotness Battle Between East and West the Terrorists are Winning
    • Invocation of a Stranger
    • Sham Man
    • Christopher Street Leather, New York City
    • The Taste of the Living Ocean
    • Business Expenditures
    • 4:00 am
    • Instructions to Achieve Flight in New York City
    • The Reconciliation
    • Grimoire
    • Espressomancy
    • 20 Pieces of Advice, Sent to My Younger Self, to be Opened June 15, 1978
    • Love as a Verb of Being
    • Manhattan's Arms
    • 5:00 am
    • Promises
    • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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