by Tara Maginnis, Ph.D. of The University of Alaska Fairbanks
This site soon to be hosted by my new underwriter onlinecostumestore.com!

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When I'm under emotional stress I tend to write to keep sane.  Often this comes out in the form of costume writing, but just as often it comes out in some other direction like Fan Fiction, magazine articles on mushrooms, Russia, and cats, or Poetry.  This is mostly a bunch of poetry that sort of spewed out in 1993-94 after a very difficult summer in Russia.

• Greyman On being in love with someone who is not so dull as he seems

• Comrade To an inspiring student

• Metroman A calm guy in my spinning world

• Baggage The emotional kind

• On the Metro The frustrated passions of a chaperon

• Dreaming Passionate thoughts

• Unspoken Conversation  Watching a friend melt down in paranoia

• The March of Folly Is love foolish?

• Excursion Summer friends on a river excursion

• Magic Sometimes you just need a guy with an umbrella

• Ferris Wheel My pathetic attempt at a romantic poem that rhymes 

• Thief  Frustrated love 

• Terra Linda On agreeable summers in childhood in California

• Garbo's Rose The failed romance of Garbo and Cecil Beaton, distilled to one page.

• Nostalgia Trip Old friends meet, and inevitably, part

• Hourglass Is "getting over" someone a good thing?

• Paroxetine HCI A poem to an antidepressant pill? Yep

• No Vacancy On the subtle pleasure & pain of weaning from one's antidepressant after a month