Selected Poems

This collection gathers some of the poet’s most beloved verses, ranging from the quiet patience of a farmer tending a pasture to the sudden, startling image of a runaway colt slipping through winter snow. The poems move through familiar New England scenes—apple orchards, birch woods, the crack of a distant frost—while turning those landscapes into mirrors for deeper questions about work, aging, and the small choices that shape a life.

Interwoven with vivid rural detail are moments of tender humor and unsettling reflection, as in the cow that abandons the pasture for cider‑sweet apples or the lone figure wrestling with a night‑time solitude. Listeners will find the rhythm of everyday labor and the quiet awe of a snowfall both comforting and thought‑provoking, offering a steady companion for walks, evenings at home, or moments when the mind wanders toward the simple, sometimes mysterious, patterns of the world.