ESSAYS

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

• « Crowley and Evola: Comparisons and Parallels »
• « The Multiplicity of Thelemas »
• « What is Thelema? (Redux) »
• « Learning the Joy of Existence in Thelema »
• « There’s Nothing Special About Meditation »
• « What is Thelema? » ²³

OTHER

• « The Initiatory Supreme Being Question: Esoteric, Philosophical, and Religious Considerations »
• « Anarchist, Thelemite, Odd Fellow: A Conflicted Initiate (and an Account of the Initiatory Degree) »

POETRY

INDIVIDUALLY-POSTED OR PUBLISHED POEMS

• « Love per se »
• « Lurasidone »
• « Shells » ²⁷
• « Poets and Rock Stars »
• « I Have the Codes »
• « Sanctum Sanctorum »
• « Ward 9 (Hospital—Redux) »
• « One »
• « Hat City and the Mystery »
• « Danny Didn’t Show »
• « Amor Fati »
• « Evaporation » ²⁶
• « The First Thousand Miles » ²⁵
• « In absentia » ²⁴
• « The End » ²²
• « With Mr. Jones (Collaborations—‘11) » ²¹
• « Awake » ¹⁹
• « Job and the German mystic…  » ¹⁷
• « Life in the Raw » ¹⁶
• « goose step » ¹⁵
• « Drug » ¹⁴
• « Cousin Richard » ¹³
• « Revelations[?] » ¹⁰
• « The Stock Exchange at the End of the Universe » ⁹
• « Easy Noumenon » ⁸
• « Night over Lower Manhattan » ⁷
• « Moment and Memory » ⁶
• « Chenrezig » ⁵
• « Hymn for Zarathustra » ⁴ _{♫}

OTHER POEMS (INCLUDED IN AUTHORED COLLECTIONS)

• Featured in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems and Easy Noumenon: Early Poems [Revised Version]:
  • « Easy Noumenon (II) »
  • « The French Experiment (Or, Finagling Sound) »
  • « Thank You Sam (After “Cascando”) »
  • « Two Corpses (Collaborations—‘11) »

SHORT FICTION

INDIVIDUALLY-POSTED OR PUBLISHED SHORT STORIES

• « Jacob Wrestles the Alien » ¹²
• « John Goes to Heaven » ¹¹

FLASH FICTION

• « Acceptance (At Donato’s) ¹

OTHER STORIES (INCLUDED IN AUTHORED COLLECTIONS)

• Featured in “Bugs” and a Few Other Stories:
  • « Utensils »
  • « Unclean »
  • « Bugs »
  • « Dear Lady (A Letter) »
  • « One With (A Metaphysical Satire) »

JUVENILIA

• « A-Ω » (poem) ³ _{♫}

MISCELLANEOUS

• Blog entries / posts:
  • For writings featured on [the home page of] this blog (23 [and counting] blog posts and 2 re-blogs), please see the {TANGENTS} page of this site.
  • Entries and re-blogs (approx. 56 total) on my former (now defunct) blog[s], Not I: Meditations on the Strange Side of Life, can be found at either the Blogger/Blogspot version of that site, or the Tumblr version. (N.S.F.W.)

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NOTES

• 1. Flash fiction. Co-authored with Ryan V. Stewart. Published in 2015 in PARAGRAPHITI. (Flash fiction issue: Fall 2015.) {WEB—Ryan V. Stewart credited} Featured in 2015 at Writing.com. {WEB—credited as Empty Sky} Featured in 2015 at Short-Story.net {WEB} (Vincent St. Clare solely credited.) Featured in 2016 at WritersCafe. {WEB} (Vincent St. Clare solely credited) Featured in 2017 on Reddit. {WEB} (Posted as EmptySky93.) Republished in 2020 in short story collection “Bugs” and a Few Other Stories. (BookRix GmbH & Co. KG, 2020—ISBN-10: 3748727690; ISBN-13: 978-3-7487-2769-9) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published} [DISCONTINUED.] 

• 3. (Written ca. 2007/2008.) Published in 2008 in A Celebration of Poets: Northeast… Spring 2008 (anthology; Creative Communication, Inc., 2008—ISBN: 978-1-60050-178-4) as “A-Ω (The Mystic’s Dream)”. (Written under a pseudonym.) {PRINT—OUT OF PRINT} Featured in 2015 at Poetfreak. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} [WEBSITE PERMANENTLY REMOVED[?].] Featured in 2015 at Poeticous. (Credited as a pseudonym and Empty Sky.) {WEB} Featured in 2015 at Writing.com. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Featured in 2016 at Power Poetry. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Featured in 2016 at Hello Poetry. (Credited as Vincent St Clare.) {WEB} Re-published in 2016 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems (Smashwords, Inc., 2016—ISBN: 9781370515691) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published} [BOOK DE-PUBLISHED.] Featured in 2021 on Poetry.com. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published} Re-published in 2022 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems [Revised Version] (Smashwords, Inc., 2022—ISBN: 9781005946128) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published} (♫) 
• 4. (Written 2011.) Formerly from Ouroboros. (Written as [A.] Yūgen.) Featured in 2011 at the Poetry Showcase as “Thus Spoke Zarathustra”. (Everypoet.net; written as _a-n._ A.nāma.) {WEB} [PAGE PERMANENTLY REMOVED[?].] Featured in 2012 at Kalkion. (Written as A Yugen.) {WEB} [WEBSITE PERMANENTLY REMOVED[?].] Featured in 2015 at Allpoetry. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Featured in 2015 at Poeticous. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Featured in 2015 at Writing.com. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Featured in 2016 at Poetfreak. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} [WEBSITE PERMANENTLY REMOVED[?].] Re-published in 2016 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems (Smashwords, Inc., 2016—ISBN: 9781370515691) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published} [BOOK DE-PUBLISHED.] Featured in 2021 at Commaful. (Credited as v_st_clare) Featured in 2021 at Poetry.com. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Re-published in 2022 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems [Revised Version] (Smashwords, Inc., 2022—ISBN: 9781005946128) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published} (♫)
• 5. (Written 2011.) Formerly from Ouroboros. (written as “[A.] Yūgen”.) Featured in 2012 at Kalkion. (Written as A Yugen.) {WEB} [WEBSITE PERMANENTLY REMOVED[?].] Featured in 2015 at Poetfreak. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Featured in 2015 at Allpoetry. (Credited as “Empty Sky.”) {WEB} Featured in 2015 at Poeticous. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Featured in 2015 at Power Poetry. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Featured in 2015 at Writing.com. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Re-published in 2016 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems (Smashwords, Inc., 2016—ISBN: 9781370515691) (Credited as “Vincent St. Clare.”) {WEB—self-published} [BOOK DE-PUBLISHED.] Featured in 2021 at Poetry.com. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Re-published in 2022 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems [Revised Version] (Smashwords, Inc., 2022—ISBN: 9781005946128) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published}

• 6. (ca. 2012.) 2014 publication in The Mystic Nebula. {WEB} [WEBSITE REMOVED U.F.N.] Featured in 2015 at PoemHunter. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Featured in 2015 at WritersCafe. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Featured in 2015 at Power Poetry. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Featured in 2015 at Writing.com. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Featured in 2015 at Poeticous. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Featured in 2016 at Poetfreak. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} [PAGE PERMANENTLY REMOVED[?].] Featured in 2016 at Hello Poetry. (Credited as Vincent St Clare.) {WEB} Re-published in 2016 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems (Smashwords, Inc., 2016—ISBN: 9781370515691) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published} [BOOK DE-PUBLISHED.] Featured in 2021 at Poetry.com. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Re-published in 2022 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems [Revised Version] (Smashwords, Inc., 2022—ISBN: 9781005946128) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published}

• 7. (ca. 2012.) 2014 publication in The Drunken Llama. (Credited as V. St. Clare) {WEB—self-published} Featured in 2015 at Poetry.com. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} [PAGE PERMANENTLY REMOVED[?].] Featured in 2015 at PoemHunter. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Featured in 2015 at WritersCafe. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Featured in 2015 at Scars.tv {WEB} and re-published in 2016 in Children, Churches and Daddies (Scars Publications: v260 (Nighttime City (anthology) {PRINT—via CreateSpace self-publishing}); Jan./Feb. 2016—print ISSN: 1068-5154; Internet ISSN: 1555-1555; ISBN-10: 1519541619; ISBN-13: 978-1519541611). {PRINT/WEB} Featured in 2015 at Writing.com. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Featured in 2015 at Poeticous. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Featured in 2015 at Booksie. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Featured in 2016 at Poetfreak. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} [PAGE PERMANENTLY REMOVED[?].] Re-published in 2016 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems (Smashwords, Inc., 2016—ISBN: 9781370515691) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published} [BOOK DE-PUBLISHED.] Featured in edited form in 2021 at Poetry.com. (Again…) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Re-published in 2022 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems [Revised Version] (Smashwords, Inc., 2022—ISBN: 9781005946128) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published} (!) (?)

• 8. (ca. 2012.) Featured in 2015 at WritersCafe. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Featured in 2015 at DarkPoetry. (Credited as a pseudonym.) {WEB} [PAGE REMOVED.] Featured in 2015 at Poetry.com. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} [PAGE PERMANENTLY REMOVED[?].] Featured in 2015 at Writing.com. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Featured in 2016 at Poetfreak. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} [WEBSITE PERMANENTLY REMOVED[?].] Featured in 2016 at Allpoetry. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Re-published in 2016 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems (Smashwords, Inc., 2016—ISBN: 9781370515691) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published} [BOOK DE-PUBLISHED.] Featured in 2022 at Poetry.com. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Re-published in 2022 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems [Revised Version] (Smashwords, Inc., 2022—ISBN: 9781005946128) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published}

• 9. (ca. 2012.) 2015 publication in Black and White: Journal for the Arts. [WCSU] (no. 7; 2015. ISBNS unknown.) {PRINT—OUT OF PRINT} Featured in 2015 at DarkPoetry. {WEB} [PAGE REMOVED.] Featured in 2015 at Poeticous. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Featured in 2015 at Power Poetry. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Featured in 2016 at Poetfreak. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} [PAGE PERMANENTLY REMOVED[?].] Re-published in 2016 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems (Smashwords, Inc., 2016—ISBN: 9781370515691) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published} [BOOK DE-PUBLISHED.] Featured in 2022 at Poetry.com. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Re-published in 2022 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems [Revised Version] (Smashwords, Inc., 2022—ISBN: 9781005946128) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published}

• 10. (ca. 2011.) Featured in 2015 at Poeticous. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Featured in 2015 at Power Poetry. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Featured in 2015 at Short-Story.net. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Featured in 2015 at Writing.com. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Featured in 2016 at Poetfreak. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} [PAGE PERMANENTLY REMOVED[?].] Featured in 2016 at Allpoetry. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Re-published in 2016 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems (Smashwords, Inc., 2016—ISBN: 9781370515691) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published} [BOOK DE-PUBLISHED.] Featured in 2022 at Poetry.com. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Re-published in 2022 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems [Revised Version] (Smashwords, Inc., 2022—ISBN: 9781005946128) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published}

• 11. 2015 publication in The Drunken Llama. (Credited as V. St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published} [PAGE PERMANENTLY REMOVED.] Featured in 2015 at Writing.com. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Featured in 2015 at Booksie. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} [PAGE REMOVED.] Re-published in 2020 in self-published short story collection “Bugs” and a Few Other Stories. (BookRix GmbH & Co. KG, 2020—ISBN-10: 3748727690; ISBN-13: 978-3-7487-2769-9) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published} [DISCONTINUED.] 
• 12. 2019 publication in Aji Magazine. (Issue 11: Fall 2019.) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {PRINT/WEB}
• 13. (ca. 2013.) Featured in 2015 at Booksie. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Featured in 2015 at Poetfreak. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} [PAGE PERMANENTLY REMOVED[?].] Featured in 2015 at Writing.com. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Featured in 2016 at Allpoetry. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Featured in 2016 at Hello Poetry. (Credited as Vincent St Clare.) {WEB} Re-published in 2016 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems (Smashwords, Inc., 2016—ISBN: 9781370515691) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published} [BOOK DE-PUBLISHED.] Featured in 2022 at Poetry.com. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Re-published in 2022 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems [Revised Version] (Smashwords, Inc., 2022—ISBN: 9781005946128) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published}

• 14. (ca. 2011.) Featured in 2016 at Poetfreak. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} [PAGE PERMANENTLY REMOVED[?].] Featured in 2016 at Booksie. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Featured in 2016 at Poeticous. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Featured in 2016 at Power Poetry. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Featured in 2016 at Allpoetry. (Credited as Empty Sky.) {WEB} Re-published in 2016 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems (Smashwords, Inc., 2016—ISBN: 9781370515691) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published} [BOOK DE-PUBLISHED.] Featured in 2022 at Poetry.com. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB}
• 15. (ca. 2013.) 2016 publication in firstwriter.magazine as “Capital/Consume”. (firstwriter.com: Issue 28; Winter 2015/16. [REQUIRES SUBSCRIPTION.]) {WEB} Featured in 2016 at Hello Poetry. (Credited as “Vincent St Clare.”) {WEB} Re-published in 2016 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems (Smashwords, Inc., 2016—ISBN: 9781370515691) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published} [BOOK DE-PUBLISHED.] Featured in 2016 at Poetfreak. (Credited as V. St. Clare.) {WEB} [PAGE PERMANENTLY REMOVED[?].] Featured in 2022 at Poetry.com. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Re-published in 2022 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems [Revised Version] (Smashwords, Inc., 2022—ISBN: 9781005946128) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published}

• 16. (ca. 2014.) Featured in 2016 at Hello Poetry. (Credited as Vincent St Clare.) {WEB} Re-published in 2016 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems (Smashwords, Inc., 2016—ISBN: 9781370515691) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published} [BOOK DE-PUBLISHED.] Featured in 2016 at Poetfreak. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} [PAGE PERMANENTLY REMOVED[?].] Featured in 2017 on Reddit. (Posted as EmptySky93 and credited/signed as Vincent St. Clare and a pseudonym.) {WEB} Featured in 2022 at Poetry.com. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Re-published in 2022 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems [Revised Version] (Smashwords, Inc., 2022—ISBN: 9781005946128) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published}

• 17. (2011.)  Featured in 2016 at Hello Poetry. (Credited as Vincent St Clare.) {WEB} Featured in 2016 at High on Poems. (Credited as Vincent St Clare.) {WEB} Re-published in 2016 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems (Smashwords, Inc., 2016—ISBN: 9781370515691) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published} [BOOK DE-PUBLISHED.] Featured in 2016 at Poetfreak. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} [PAGE PERMANENTLY REMOVED[?].] Re-published in 2022 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems [Revised Version] (Smashwords, Inc., 2022—ISBN: 9781005946128) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published} Featured in 2022 at Poetry.com (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB}

• 19. 2016 publication in Black and White: Journal for the Arts. [WCSU] (no. 8; 2016. ISBNs unknown.) {PRINT—OUT OF PRINT} Featured in 2016 at PoetrySoup. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Featured in 2016 at Poetfreak. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} [PAGE PERMANENTLY REMOVED[?].] Re-published in 2016 in Upon Arrival: Commencement (van. anthology; Eber and Wein Publishing [vanity pub.!], 2016—ISBN-10: 1608805417; ISBN-13: 978-1608805419) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {PRINT}
• 21. (2011.) Published in 2016 as part of a series of poems in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems (Smashwords, Inc., 2016—ISBN: 9781370515691) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published} [BOOK DE-PUBLISHED.] Featured in 2016 at PoetrySoup. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Featured in 2016 at High on Poems as “With Mr. Jones (Collaborations—‘11)”. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} Featured in 2016 at Poetfreak. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB} [PAGE PERMANENTLY REMOVED[?].] Re-published in 2022 in Easy Noumenon: Early Poems [Revised Version] (Smashwords, Inc., 2022—ISBN: 9781005946128) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB—self-published}

• 22. 2016 publication in the Unrorean. (Encircle Publications: Fall ‘16 Issue/Vol. 16, Issue 3; 2016. Credited as Vincent von Strauss.) {WEB} [PAGE PERMANENTLY REMOVED[?].] Featured in 2017 on Reddit. (Posted as EmptySky93.) {WEB}
• 23. 2018 publication in Medium. (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB}
• 24. Published in 2018 in Upon Arrival: Inception (van. anthology; Eber and Wein Publishing [vanity pub.!], 2018—ISBN-10: 1608806278; ISBN-13: 978-1608806270) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {PRINT} Featured in 2021 on My poetic side. (Posted as Vincent St. Clare; poem stylized as “In absentia”.) {WEB}
• 25. Published in 2019 (May 5, 2019) in Poetry Pacific. (Spring 2019 issue.) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB}
• 26. Published in 2019 (May 5, 2019) in Poetry Pacific. (Spring 2019 issue.) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {WEB}
• 27. Published in 2022 (Jan. 30, 2022) in the anthology Fusion: Together We Stand. (2022.) {PRINT—WEB} (NOTE: Compiler/publisher accidentally published this poem as “Soon” instead of “Shells.”) (Credited as Vincent St. Clare.) {PRINT—WEB}

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