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Top Ten
1. Rugby
2. Monks Follow Me
3. Tall Paul
4. Meeting Dominique
5. Scratch Paper
6. One Night Out
7. What We Do
8. What We Miss
9. The Great Cosmic Nothingness
10. I am Dirty
11. Dear Seattle
12. Waiting on a Train

More New Poems

Tall Paul
The Skies Meant Everything
Achaque
Bettina
I Think of Bess
We Were Drunks
A Question
Vagrant Whores
Spilling the Beans
Romeo
I Could Live in Florida
Subway
My CDs
My Play
What Our Kids Become
For Granted
What Should Not be Forgotten
We were Nuts
James Taylor
With No One
I'm Not Gay
All Things
McCain Called
Fools
Until Our Dying Days
Making Up Ground
Smiles
Facebook
My Stool
Rufus & I
How Far

Even-newer even-newer poems

Background Noise
Errant Letters
Grave Shadows
Last Lick from the East
Great Lottery in the Sky
Monks Drink Beer
My Muse
My Tools
Our (Flat) Town
To Sleep
To Know Love
Tracy
That We be Proven Fools
When God Came
Dying Alone
End of Us
Arata
The Marionette

Yet more even-newer poems

The Great Cosmic Nothingness
I am Dirty
We are Birds
I'm No Bird
That Chest
The Sky
The Wind
Poetry
Living through the Nose
Gardeners
Creation Day
The Eighth Day
Kneeling
Betty Carter
Truth to Power
The Bees
New Species
The Whale
Big Trucks
Japan
Song of Youth

Even-Newer Poems

You Can Call Me Maddy
Not to Walk Alone
311
The Chelsea Hotel
D Day
Anything but Devotion
My Boxing Days
My Lawyer
A Lifelong Dream
Loan Me Sense
If You See Me
Civet
History of the World
The Sheikh
Steve and Bill and Tim
Thanks for Nothing
Severe Disability
Alone
To be Abandoned
Speech Pathology
The Worst is for the Worst
Eugenics by Any Other Name
I Need Help
What I Would Do

Yet More New Poems

Rain Man
Beginning Again
I'm Not Loyal
Roman
The Watering Hole
A Dog's Life
H.A.L.T.
Sex Slave
The Haunting
Just Desserts
Mark Twain
No More Fish
The Beating
School Massacres
Skid Row
Between Stupors
Superhighway

What We X

What We Do
What We Are
What We Want
What We Know
What We Fear
What We Await
What We Love
What We See
What We Doubt
What We Miss

The Cascade Project

Dear Seattle I
Dear Bellingham II
Dear Vancouver III
Dear Portland IV

Bean Counters
This is SO Not Funny
I'm Really Flying High
Dear Roy

More-recent poems:

Tatters
Pelican Swallowed Pigeon
Bewildered Mutt
Ding Dong o' My Heart
Dear Michael
Dear Ric
Guerilla Charity
The Problem of Prolificness
1990-Something
Saving Christmas
For it Not to Be
The Bee Guy
DJs are People Too
Deserving Company
Like I Never
Cheesecake
The Bio-Chem Buddha
Hippie
If I Die
My 4th
Not a Holiday Party
Population: 1
Ties that Bind
Nothing but Love

Recent poems:

Rugby
Moon Rock
Nick Said Hello
Star Children
Wizards
The Constant Anonymous Stripper
Needles Suck
A Few Minutes with Mingki
Scratch Paper
How Many Days
The Storm
Mow in Mexico
Why I am Not
How Many Days
Hearts Out of Line
Dear Richard
When We Will Have Not
Scowl
Pollock Day
A Forever Day at the Beach
Lovers, Be Kind
I Hate Making Breakfast
Chewing
I Saw U
Mature Themes
Harmless
A Life on Loan
My Nice Chrome Rack
Far from Home

Two Poems of Survival

Your Underwear
My Wedding Ring

[Marginal:]

Josie
The Whitening
Future Farmers
Get to Know Me
Sonny
Scorpios, Burn
The Blast
The Racist
My Big Red Headphones
The Keystone


Public Letters, Aspects of Sam, and Other Works
Here are the poems from my second chapbook, published in Bellingham, Washington in 1998. [View the cover I designed here.]

Inscript: for the joy of beginning again and again

Foreword

Several Older Poems

One Night Out
My China
The Enlightenment
The Flaw

Public Letters (more letter poems in Monologues)
[I must point out that my inspiration to write letter poems is the late, great Richard Hugo.]

Dearest Brothers Wright
Dear Nicole
Dear Lou
Dear So and So
Dear Africa

General Explorations I

The Kids All Look a Million
City People
The Myth of a Round Earth
Mimi
If You Could be a Genie

Aspects of Sam
Some of the following pieces were performed on a main stage at the 1998 Seattle Poetry Festival.

What the Coffee-Shop Owner Said
What Sam Wants to Know
What Sam's Grandmother Said
Meeting Dominique
Sam Went Out Walking
Dear Dominique
Dear Sam

General Explorations II

Some People Always Smile
You see a Lot of Poems

Monks Follow Me
(A response from Brother Timothy)
Shootin' Down Stars
Three Short Stories about Love and Thermodynamics

Postscript


Constant Threads
Here are the nine pieces contained in my first chapbook, published in Seattle in 1995. All but one of these are prose poems.

Storytellers
The Longing
The Molting
The Hearing
Chet
The Reading
The Waiting
Amber
What Will Be

2004 © Adam Gottschalk