Selected Poems “For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain.” —John Cheever 33 poems A Shropshire Lad, II by A. E. Housman An Interview with God by James J. Lachard Autumn by Josiah Conder Be Mindful of the Moment by Neil Harding McAlister Causatum by Sharamain Sadler Combing by Gladys Cardiff Deliberate by David J. Humphreys Drowned in a Raindrop by David J. Humphreys Flowers Talk by Joan Adams Burchell Friendship by Ralph Waldo Emerson Heart’s Path by Francine Pucillo Help Yourself to Happiness by Helen Steiner Rice How We Didn’t Tell Her by Sandra M. Gilbert I Stopped Going to Therapy by Clementine von Radics May we raise children who love the unloved by Nicolette Sowder Medicine Wheel by Paul Allen Bruce Men as Trees, Walking by William Greenway October Morning Rain by Sally Boland Peace of Mind by Micheal Teal Poem for My Father by Virgil Suárez Say No by Megan Falley & Olivia Gatwood Spring Garden by M. M. R. Spring-Time by Dolly Radford Storm by Clementine von Radics Stray Cat by Francis Witham The Girl I Used to Be by Rowena K. Lewis The Man Who Thinks He Can by Walter D. Wintle The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry The Poet by Raymond Garfield Dandridge The Word by Tony Hoagland There Is No Word by Tony Hoagland When I Smile Again by Lasca Nuala Reed When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats