Imagine Writing Th is; Imagine It’s About You A Collection of Poems from 2011 Richard P. Gabriel 2011 Contents Years and Years ...........................................................................................................................................................1 Dreaming of Dreaming of California..................................................................................................................... 2 Barn Dreaming ......................................................................................................................................................... 3 Old Album Never Explained .................................................................................................................................. 4 Hill Making .............................................................................................................................................................. 5 Contradictions + Snow ........................................................................................................................................... 6 Annoyed Arriver ........................................................................................................................................................7 Chinatown ................................................................................................................................................................. 8 Boston ........................................................................................................................................................................ 9 Afraidness ................................................................................................................................................................ 10 Indictment ................................................................................................................................................................11 Laughing Again....................................................................................................................................................... 12 Our Road ................................................................................................................................................................. 13 James Schiller Th eme Song ................................................................................................................................... 14 Old Adages ...............................................................................................................................................................17 Here’s What Tired Means .................................................................................................................................... 18 Who Hates It .......................................................................................................................................................... 19 Easy Money .............................................................................................................................................................20 Foreign Leftovers .....................................................................................................................................................21 Th e Good Book .......................................................................................................................................................22 Speak of Impossible ................................................................................................................................................ 23 Looking At ..............................................................................................................................................................24 Or Not Much .......................................................................................................................................................... 25 Oh No ...................................................................................................................................................................... 26 Too Far Gone .......................................................................................................................................................... 27 Lasting Wish ...........................................................................................................................................................28 Identity Mismapped ............................................................................................................................................... 29 Contrary To ............................................................................................................................................................30 Just Ask the Peace ....................................................................................................................................................31 Bent Over and Over ............................................................................................................................................... 32 Some Streets ........................................................................................................................................................... 33 Away From Every Place Called Home .................................................................................................................34 Again in Cold Europe ............................................................................................................................................. 35 Bisbee Princess in a Joint of Coff ee ...................................................................................................................... 36 Nordic Trainstorming .............................................................................................................................................37 Snowfound ..............................................................................................................................................................38 Torrential Sadness .................................................................................................................................................. 39 Pain Ahead ..............................................................................................................................................................40 Road Home ..............................................................................................................................................................41 Four Years After Death ......................................................................................................................................... 42 Wrinkled Inklings .................................................................................................................................................. 43 A Possible Distance ................................................................................................................................................44 Who Are Th ey / Who Th ey Are .......................................................................................................................... 45 Are Brown ................................................................................................................................................................46 Last To See Th em ....................................................................................................................................................47 i Snow Angles ............................................................................................................................................................48 Unbeneathable ........................................................................................................................................................ 49 Advice to Run By ....................................................................................................................................................50 About You Ma ..........................................................................................................................................................51 Under the Night ..................................................................................................................................................... 52 She Never Told ....................................................................................................................................................... 53 Under A Sky Noted For Its Brevity .....................................................................................................................54 Th e Great Writer .................................................................................................................................................... 55 Unguent ................................................................................................................................................................... 56 Potsdam 1910 Winter .............................................................................................................................................57 Figure Active ...........................................................................................................................................................58 Some Foreign Country .........................................................................................................................................