The Wind and Fifteen Other Syllables

  1. For you, Emily
  2. Before winter falls
  3. December's first frost
  4. I leap a snow drift
  5. A crackling fireplace
  6. Familiar psalms
  7. You hum in my palm
  8. 'Mount Everest wears
  9. A zipper is stuck
  10. Snowy bright morning
  11. December moonlight
  12. I light a candle
  13. Smell of gingerbread
  14. Holiday season
  15. The winter solstice
  16. What more can I say?
  17. Whose bloodstains are these?
  18. Row of icicles
  19. Smell of sauerkraut
  20. February night
  21. We are castrated
  22. An insomniac
  23. World-weary dreamer
  24. Sad accordion
  25. Inevitably
  26. Upon the meadow
  27. An asthma attack
  28. Thirteenth day of spring
  29. Nasal congestion
  30. Lozenge on your tongue
  31. A mother's shadow
  32. Behind the bright eggs
  33. A fancy hotel
  34. A thick wind picks up
  35. Wind comes to a stop
  36. Stacks of paper work
  37. Against the window
  38. Letter from college
  39. Humorous poet
  40. Van Morrison sings
  41. Late April morning
  42. Lightning and thunder
  43. After heavy rains
  44. With a heavy clop
  45. The gate swings open
  46. I pass a black cat
  47. A dull razor blade
  48. Bougainvillea
  49. Budding peony
  50. Buzzing honeycomb
  51. Sharp green smear and squash
  52. Sunlight in the groves
  53. Junebugs on windows
  54. Humid afternoons
  55. The wind borrows kites
  56. A migrating swan
  57. Empty summer sky
  58. Blue altostratus
  59. This room is so hot
  60. I make scrambled eggs
  61. I'm crushing garlic
  62. The tolling wind chime
  63. In the quiet of
  64. On a July night
  65. The poet wakes with
  66. The lunar craters
  67. Corn obscures the road
  68. A silver apple
  69. Doing the laundry
  70. Upside down like that
  71. Iowa beckons
  72. In a low lawn chair
  73. Atlantic ocean
  74. Choppy ocean waves
  75. Flower in your hair
  76. Leaving a hotel
  77. September arrives
  78. Walking in Sumter
  79. An extra olive
  80. Lonely blue firefly
  81. Behind the boat house
  82. Listen carefully
  83. A banana peel
  84. Discarded apple
  85. Our hydrangea
  86. Pouring orange juice
  87. The leaves are golden
  88. A light rain follows
  89. Gust of November
  90. Thanksgiving dinner
  91. Like a gawky maid
  92. The leafless tree sways
  93. A bad memory
  94. Black ink on my skin
  95. Nearly silently
  96. There's your fingerprint
  97. While the butter melts
  98. While I drink coffee
  99. The lizard stops dead
  100. Pandemonium
  101. Surrounded by steam
  102. Your deep, steady breath
  103. Deep inside a dream
  104. Berries are crashing