Dry Leaves
Title | First Line | Theme(s) | Original Citation |
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A Prejudiced Witness | "This morning my wife and I" | birds, marriage | Dry Leaves. Holly Springs, MS: Ragnarok Press. 1975. |
A Return to Facts | "You check out the office" | renewal, retirement | Dry Leaves. Holly Springs, MS: Ragnarok Press. 1975. |
An Occasion | "In the late afternoon," | fall, love | Dry Leaves. Holly Springs, MS: Ragnarok Press. 1975. |
Outlived by Time | "The empty hearse skimmed away" | death, funeral | Dry Leaves. Holly Springs, MS: Ragnarok Press. 1975. |
Point of No Return | "Grass in the cracks of the sidewalk," | memory, decay | Dry Leaves. Holly Springs, MS: Ragnarok Press. 1975. |
Portrait of an Old Horse | "I wonder what shaggy thoughts" | aging, animals | Dry Leaves. Holly Springs, MS: Ragnarok Press. 1975. |
The Groundhog | "Scooped from his winter nest" | faith, animals | Dry Leaves. Holly Springs, MS: Ragnarok Press. 1975. |
The Visitor | "In the heat of the afternoon" | farming, ownership | Dry Leaves. Holly Springs, MS: Ragnarok Press. 1975. |
Waiting | "Waiting is not patience" | frustration, fishing | Dry Leaves. Holly Springs, MS: Ragnarok Press. 1975. |
Woman and Her Wayward Garden | "Maples and oaks turn scarlet," | fall, wistfulness | Dry Leaves. Holly Springs, MS: Ragnarok Press. 1975. |