Sam Hamill

Weasel, Crow, an Coyote on the Dharma Trail

From Dumb Luck

E.E. Cummings

From The Heart of Autumn

George Bilgere

The Bear

From Haywire

Jack Ridl

Fractals: A Nocturne

From Practicing to Walk Like a Heron

MIchael Earl Craig

When It's Time

From Thin Kimono

Ted Kooser

Ames By-Products

From New Letters, Vol 80 No. 3 & 4

Alison Luterman

Talking with Lisa Who Teaches in the Women's Prison

From See How We Almost Fly

Suzannah Showler

Jeopardy

From Failure to Thrive

Grover W. Clayton

We Only Keep the Love We Give Away

From Moth at the Window

Wisława Szymborska

In Praise of Dreams

From View with a Grain of Sand

Kristine O'Connell George

Snow Fence

From The Great Frog Race

Mark Irwin

Firenze Pietà

From New Letters, Vol 80 No. 3 & 4

George Bilgere

Un Bel Di

From Good Poems, American Places

Ted Kooser

A Reader by Lamplight

From New Letters, Vol 80 No. 3 & 4

Christopher Bursk

The Great Book of Bats

From Ovid at Fifteen

Robert Hayden

Indian Pipes

From The New Yorker, June 23, 2014

Kate DiCamillo

Snow, Aldo

From Good Poems, American Places

Alice Schertle

From Firefly July

Joyce Sutphen

The Last Things I'll Remember

From Good Poems, American Places

Cassandra Sagan Bell

In Praise of Frogs

From Of Frogs and Toads

George Bilgere

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The Table

From Haywire

Gerald Jonas

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In Passing

From Firefly July

Richard Beban

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The Way the Game Was Played

From What the Heart Weighs

Rene Ruiz

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He Shaved His Head

From You Hear Me

Joyce Kilmer

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Trees

From The Poetry Anthology 

A.A. Milne

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Happiness

From A Family of Poems

Mary Oliver

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Wild Geese

From Dream Work

Baron Wormser

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Farmhouses, Iowa

From Good Poems, American Places

Kristine O'Connell George

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Visitor

From Hummingbird Nest

William Stafford

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At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border

From Good Poems, American Places

Bertolt Brecht

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Send Me a Leaf

From The New Yorker, Aug 11-18, 2014

Tobias Hill

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February

From Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow

Patricia Smith

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Still Life with Toothpick

From Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah 

Antonio Machado

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From She Walks in Beauty

Maurya Simon

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The Gardener

From Days of Awe

Mary Oliver

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Clam

From What Do We Know

Emily Dickinson

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From Firefly July

George Bilgere

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Citizen Kane

From Haywire

Jim Harrison & Ted Kooser

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From Firefly July

Tobias Hill

April

From Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow

John Legend

Again

Dan Sully & Tim Stafford

Death From Below

James Still

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Those I Want in Heaven with Me Should There Be Such a Place

From From the Mountain, From the Valley

Paul Ruffin

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Grandma Chooses Her Plot at the County Cemetery

From Going Over to Your Place

Sheryl L. Nelms

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Too Much

From Of Frogs and Toads

Ted Kooser

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Abandoned Farmhouse

From Sure Signs

Barton Sutter

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Warmth

From Going Over to Your Place

Tobias Hill

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A Year in London

From Nocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow

Sarah Pemberton Strong

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On Gaining a Sense of Smell

From Tour of the Breath Gallery

Mary Oliver

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Black Snake

From What Do We Know

Robert Wrigley

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The Pumpkin Tree

From Reign of Snakes

Taylor Mali

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From Falling in Love is Like Owning a Dog

From A Family of Poems