- 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
- Gospel According to Adam
- 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
- Second batch of poems published (One Night Out was the first, in 1994). This batch appeared in Emeralds in the Ash in Seattle in 1995:
- All Aboard
- The Turnaround
- The Good Night's Sleep
- Other (marginal) poems:
- The Punch
- Love Explained to the Aliens
- The Pink Cloud
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