Fireside Poems

A medieval minnesinger provdes for the care of the birds who taught him

The importance and need of community seen in a snow-bound farm.

Two portraits: one of the poet's learning disabled uncle and one of a young schoolteacher such as would go to the South after the Civil War to teach the sons and the daughters of the Freedmen.

An early 19th-century New England family passes a snowbound evening telling stories.

A memory of a snowstorm in rural Massachussetts.

The artist Michael Angelo reflects on the demands and importance of art.

A schooner sinks in a storm with the daughter of its captain tied to the mast for her safety.

A poem challenges us to think both about poetry and about nature: is nature simpy a material fact that can be understood through scentific materialism, or are their apects of nature that are unknowable trhough the scientific world view?

The first winter snowfall brings both sadness and peace to a faher grieving the death of an infant daughter.

The trials and tribulations of a child on Christmas morning.