1The Man Of Dead Leaves "As she wandered through the center of the street, three birds took sudden flight from the other side of a house with an imperative rushing of wings..."

4Constancy A prose poem in three parts. "Upon awakening, I had become the bowl and the seeds had become my bones..."

4A City "Madame, madame, you are a city,/High-flung terraces, well-constructed walls..."

5I Am The Dead Bird "The smooth, sleek curves of flight, broken and discarded; the body small and circular and heaped on the ground, so quiet and self-contained...she could not be so still as that, though she closed her eyes. The beating in her chest betrayed her, again and

3The Summer "I read Romeo and Juliet all of that last summer I was home... I had a battered green copy with swirling cover art, and that summer more than once the pages were stained with sweatdrops, saline as lovers' tears..."

2The Call "Who calls to you, who calls to you, as wearying you stand/Who calls to you, who calls to you, with reaching wither'd hand"

3Three Acts A poem...about...err...a breakup, of sorts.

2cryptic inspired by chirleep's 'cipher'. a poem about...well...it's a bit of a riddle, you see.

1Wings "we heard the songs of yester-year: the pooling hymn of farshore rock..."

5The Gypsy Fiddle "Once she had not felt the tug of the north wind in her veins as often or as strong- when she was younger, and her skin was smooth, and there were no wrinkles beside the proud green eyes; and now she is old, and her Sam is gone..."