The wind blows, the ice breaks : poems of loss and renewal by Minnesota poets

Our stories / Elizabeth and Ted

Prelude (The poet says grief / Susan Williams

Grief / Louise Erdrich

For the disappeared / Kirsten Dierking

from: Meditations : Tyne Cot Cemetery, Ypres / Jude Nutter

The art of grieving / Linda Back McKay)

The wind whirls around us (Windstorm / Larry Schug

Courage at sixty / Eugene McCarthy

Even so / Mary Willette Hughes

The inevitable / Diane Glancy

Lost / Monica Ochtrup

One morning cerial / Richard Solly

Ambushed / Carol Pearce Bjorlie

Epilepsy : this is what I know / Pam Wynn

A strange thing happens / Marilyn J. Boe

Speech / Nancy Frederiksen

Ashtray / Alex Lemon

Dream song #172 : your face broods from my table / John Berryman

Twinges / Susan Deborah King

Players / Ruth Roston

Crossing / Norita Dittberner-Jax

Camouflage / Mary Kay Rummel

It is not the fact that I will die that I mind / Jim Moore

Symbiosis / Mary Kay Rummel

Overdue / Michael Walsh

The black squirrel / Patricia Kirkpatrick

Late song / Margot Fortunato Galt

Looking at aging faces / Robert Bly

Crone / Phebe Hanson

Eight of us / Lucille Broderson

as we, too, grow older / Alvin Greenberg

Worth / Annie Breitenbucher

Broken bones / Nancy Frederiksen

His mother / Gail Rixen

Soften the blow / Ted Bowman

Young blond guy at piano / Nolan Zavoral

Silver spoons on glass / Annie Breitenbucher

Wild geese / Lucille Broderson

Think of me in D Major / John Engman

Sundays when their laps were full of light / Leslie Adrienne Miller) The ice breaks beneath us (Phosphorescence / Heid Erdrich

Drawing of my family : age 6 / Jill Breckenridge

Doris / Stanley Kiesel

from: Addresses / Spencer Reece

this child / Roseann Lloyd

After the dance / Sharon Chmielarz

Touching / John Caddy

The first Christmas after the divorce / Philip Bryant

Second marriage / John Calvin Rezmerski

Divorced / Carol Connolly

I dream the divorce is final / Caroline Vogel Marshall

In Florida / William Reichard

Interlude / Spencer Reece

The fear of loss / Mark Vinz

Don't come home / Todd Boss

The pleasure of safety / Kirsten Dierking

Dead in bloody snow / Meridel LeSueur

Earth tongues / Joe Paddock

Driving across Wisconsin, September 11, 2001 / James Lenfestey

When a son goes off to war / Ann Iverson

Hope without hope / David Mura

For my country in its darkness / Tim Nolan

Tsunami chant / Wang Ping) The ice breaks, the wind blows (News of your death / Thomas McGrath

Curls / Phebe Hanson

In the end / Lucille Broderson

Elegy against the dying of the light / Ethna McKiernan

Sharing / Beverly Rollwagen

c=the physics of farewell / Alvin Greenberg

Joe / Sharon Chmielarz

Widows / Florence Chard Dacey

lament / George Roberts

Miscarriage / Pam Wynn

Three Christmases ago / Freye Manfred

Dying old and dying young / Susan Williams

Asleep in Jesus / Nancy Paddock

Three steps to the graveyard / James Wright

Elegy for spectators / John Calvin Rezmerski

The woman who wailed / Elizabeth Bourque Johnson

Dream at the death of James Wright / Michael Dennis Browne

Snowbanks north of the house / Robert Bly

Time between hours / Anna Irena Sochocky

Haiku in English / Gerald Vizenor

Echoes / Jean McKenzie Johnson

From room to room / Elizabeth Bourque Johnson

Body business / Georgia A. Greeley

Comfort / Deborah Keenan

Dream song #207 : how are you? / John Berryman

from: Resort part II / Patricia Hampl

The dance of the ripples / Bill Meissner

from: Seven invisible strings / Jim Moore

The disappearance of my father / Warren Woessner

Male tears / Ted Bowman

Neighbor in May / Michael Dennis Browne

Companioned / Betty Bridgman

Credo / Mary Willette Hughes

Remembering loves and deaths / Thomas McGrath

Another postcard from Chinook / Kathryn Kysar

Crenellation / Su Smallen

from: Anniversary / Madelon Sprengnether

Fort Snelling National Cemetery : St. Paul, Minnesota / David Wojahn

Tornado country / Evelyn Klein

from: The dead get by with everything / Bill Holm) The sky begins to blue (Blue / Mary Logue

The widow's grove / Heid Erdrich

Good-bye / Marilyn Benson

At total eclipse of the sun / Kate Green

Poem for your brother / E'ireann Lorsung

Grandfather Janosz and the Polish graves of New Prague / John Minczeski

Grief / Ethna McKiernan

Blue heron / Deborah Keenan

This windy day / Connie Wanek

Submission to Death / James L. White

At Mihwangsa Temple / Ed-Bok Lee

After a death ; The unread book / Cary Waterman

from: The life is greater than the body / Patricia Barone

When I die / Richard Solly

Affectionate witness / Thomas R. Smith

Commuting / Kathleen Patrick

Twin / Mary Rose O'Reilley

Basket, river / Margaret Hasse

The young widow's conception of faith / Katrina Vandenberg

Currents / Roberta Hill Whiteman

Apartments of the dead / Barton Sutter

Encroachment / Dobby Gibson

After learning Coyote argued against mortality for humans / Susan Steger Welsh

Last night / Ray Gonzalez

Last year / James Cihlar

Letter from the dead / G.E. Patterson

In every minute of every hour of every day / Ann Iverson

Furthest limit / Morgan Grayce Willow) And a bird sings (Now that anything could happen / Joyce Sutphen

Frank Sinatra changing limos (circa 1991) / Greg Watson

Dust / Jorie Miler

Where to find Heaven / John Reinhard

Trouble, fly / Susan Marie Swanson

Yellow hat / Louis Jenkins

Crows / Jude Nutter

Meadowlark : mending song / Margaret Hasse

The whole catastrophe / Jere Truer

from: Great summons / Wang Ping)