Blue Iris: Poems and Essays Book

	Morning glories	1
	The sunflowers	2
	Black oaks	5
	Goldenrod	6
	Some questions you might ask	9
	Sea leaves	10
	Skunk cabbage	11
	Spring	13
	The oak tree at the entrance to Blackwater Pond	14
	Freshen the flowers, she said	16
	The bleeding-heart	17
	Grassy pond, which really is a swamp	18
	The roses	21
	The lilies break open over the dark water	22
	Blue iris	25
	A blessing	27
	Rice	32
	Beans	33
	Touch-me-nots	34
	Peonies	36
	Seven white butterflies	38
	Morning at Blackwater	40
	Roses	41
	Lilies	42
	Poppies	44
	Just lying on the grass at Blackwater	46
	from West wind	49
	White flowers	50
	Upstream	52
	How would you live then?	57
	Count the roses	58
	How the grass and the flowers came to exist, a God-tale	60
	October	61
	Old goldenrod at field's edge	64
	Blackberries	67
	White pine	68
	Afterword : roses, late summer	72