The Defrauding of the Worms is a collection of poetry written by Steve Eng. It was first published in 2007.
Contents[]
- A Reflection of Pride
- Aesthetes
- Agoraphobia
- Am I My Brother's Keeper?
- An Idle Question
- Anne
- Anonymous Inquisitors
- Answered Prayer
- Anti-Communist Manifesto
- Antique
- Aphrodite
- Approaching Hour
- Arrested Development
- Arthur Rackham
- Arthur Symons
- Artisans
- Aspirations
- At the Window
- Atmosphere of Houses
- Atonement
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Bad Goodbye
- Badland Ballad
- Bandit's Bull's Eye
- Bardicide
- Bargain
- Bay of Pigs Encore
- Barbed Wire Ballad
- Before the Colors Fade
- Below the Horizon
- Better Than Nothing
- Beverage
- Beyond
- Bird Dung of Doom
- Birthright
- Black Bridegroom
- Black Guide
- Black
- Blanket
- Blaze!
- Bliss
- Bottled Time
- Brief
- Brothers
- Brushy Bill Roberts
- Buddhist Monk
- Buffalo Skull on the Desert
- Bugundy Morning
- Cacophony
- Carpathian Conflagration
- Cartographic-Typographic Note
- Case Study
- Castaway
- Certainty
- Chill-Charred Winterlude
- Choice
- Circle
- Civil War Marker: Vanderbilt Campus
- Cold, Cold Hank
- Collector's Clutter
- Cold-War Liberals
- Condemned
- Coming Attractions
- Conviction
- Covert Cathedral
- Crazed Cavorting
- Death of a Conqueror
- Death Cloud
- Death Wings
- Dedication of Love
- Definition
- Depression
- Devouring Yesterdays
- Diagnosis
- Dispatch from Kent State
- Don't Let Your Dreams Get Away From You
- Doomed Drifters
- Drifter
- Driftwood
- Earthquake
- East Nashville Fire on 15th Street
- Eastland Avenue
- Easy Lover
- Echo
- Echoes
- Embrace
- Empty Palm
- Endangered Fowl
- Envy
- Escape
- Essential Persistence
- Etchings
- Eternal Balladry
- Ethical Operation
- Evermore
- Everytown, USA
- Except, Perhaps, Prayer
- Exchange
- Exposed
- Extermination
- Faith
- Fancy
- Fall Showers
- Fall Melody
- Far Place
- Feather on the Sea
- Feeding Place
- Fill Up a Glass Full of Memories
- First Aid
- Fiscal Advice
- Five Thirty, P.M.
- Flaming Prose
- Flash-Backs at Forty-One
- Flush!
- Flying Dutchman
- Flying Dutchman 2
- Foliage
- Forseen
- Forever
- Fort Negley at Nashville
- Fort Phil Kearney, Wyoming, 1866
- Frank James 'Been Living Too Long'
- From a 23rd Century Text
- Frost Dirge
- Frozen Rose
- Gadfly
- Galactic Gothic
- Ganier Ridge, Radnor Lake
- Geography
- Gift
- Golden Eagle
- Golden Rings
- Golden Spurs on a Silver Screen
- Golgothan Solace
- Grave Proof
- Graveyard Verse Verities
- Heart of the Matter
- High-Wire Walk
- History's Horse-Hooves
- How?
- Human Pets
- How Can I Give Jesus Everything That He Deserves?
- I Can See My Husband Riding
- I Don't Know Why I Love You
- Immortality
- In a Glass, Clearly
- In Due Time
- In Memory of Thomas Lovell Beddoes
- Inevitable
- It's a Dusty Road
- Jane Merchant
- Jesus, Don't Come Back Today
- Knell
- Know Your Lines
- Lamia
- Legacy
- Life
- Like the Wind on a Winter's Day
- Literature
- Lost
- Love Doesn't Love Us Anymore
- Loyal
- Lunatic Lyre
- Lured by the Looking Glass
- Man-Of-Letters Requiem
- Manassas
- Manger Monument
- Tycho Brahe's "Fortress of the Heavens"
- Marie Ragghianti: Nashville, 1977-83
- Marionette
- Masque de Poesie
- Me, Since You
- Melodrama
- Memorial Day
- Memories
- Missing
- Money Morning
- Monstro Ligriv
- Mortal Combat
- Mount Airy Station
- Mt. Olivet Cemetery: Nashville
- Nashville Christmas...1779
- Nashville Gentleman
- Necrobibliophilia
- Never
- No Valhalla: Death of Robert E. Howard
- North-Sea Lament
- Observation
- Ocean City
- Ocean Victim
- On Reading Timothy Steele's Missing Measures
- On Seeing Joan Baez Close the Grammy Awards Show February 23, 1983
- On Viewing New Buildings in Washington, D.C.
- Originality (for Anne)
- Over and Over and...
- Paper Tomb
- Paresis
- Philosophy
- Phototropism
- Pinned
- Poetry Rules
- Poet's Paramour
- Portland Spring
- Post-operative Report
- Prices
- Progress
- Purple-Clouded Prose
- Raison d'Etre
- Red Clouds
- Regrettably Yours
- Rendezvous with the Reaper
- Response
- Retort to Time
- Riven
- Rudder
- Sabbath, 1966, 1984
- Sac Prairie People
- Sahara Doom-Scape
- Secret
- Seismic Prophecy
- Self-Evaporation
- Self-Strange
- Siamese
- Sceptic's Song
- Smashed Reflection
- Soaring
- Some Called Him "Pig"
- Somewhere, Under the Rainbow
- Soon
- Split-Second
- Springdale Confederate Cemetery, Chattanooga
- Stonehenge
- The All-American Ladies Choice
- The Armageddon Hour
- The Cast-Down Cup
- The Death of August Derleth
- The Defrauding of the Worms
- The Dell and the Desert
- The Gallery of Gothic Princesses
- The Illuminati: Spartacus
- The Last Laugh
- The Modern Version
- The Music of the Moon
- The Norm
- The Oldest Battle
- The Oldest Song
- The Sahara of My Soul
- The Tritest Song
- The Vietman War Ain't Over Yet (It Takes a Long, Long Time)
- The Woman's Victory
- This Poem is Dedicated
- Thrust Home
- Tiny Linguist
- To Lie
- Treading Water (Willingly)
- Tutor
- Two Kinds of Poets
- Very, Very Soon
- Weapon
- What Hath Keynes Wrought
- Welcome Home, Sister
- Wilde
- William Blake
- Winner
- Whispered
- Yawn
- You