A barn is taken down, and dairy farm childhood memories rise with the chaff in DOWNFALL by Linda Schaller.

WRITE ME A POEM ABOUT LOVE, YOU SAY by Ronnie Hess portrays an older couple on a walk finding what endures.

In DRIVING HIGHWAY 29 poet Kate Maude drives her children to apple picking while facing family memories along the route.

WHERE THE SOUL IS MEANT TO BE by Elizabeth Farris portrays Horicon Marsh in its autumning as the poet, in the gesture of crane, speaks to migration.

OCTOBER IN FAVILLE GROVE by Catherine Young

Poet Catherine Young considers Emily Dickinson’s lines that to make a prairie it takes a clover and bee and revelry, and spins a poem portraying the complexity of prairie in the interweaving of people. This poem was written for the Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance to celebrate the thousand acre prairie of Faville Grove Sanctuary near Lake Mills, Wisconsin.

THE SHORTEST DAYS by Minnesota Poet Laureate, Joyce Sutphen, from her collection Carrying Water to the Field. This poem for the time of the winter solstice anticipates the day’s end and night descending, while the people rise to meet it.

OLD FEY AUTUMN SIGHS by Wisconsin poet Donna Carnes is a villanelle that imagines a king of autumn letting go of his reign to the oncoming queen of winter.