Table of Contents

Homage to the Lady with the Dirty Feet and other Vermont Poems
Stanford J. Searl, Jr.

Table of Contents

Dedication
Preface
Openings 
Hymn to Memory
Music from the Basement with Persephone
Dwelling
• Homage to the Lady with the Dirty Feet
The Kitchen 
• Hospitality at 100 Main Street
• Baked Beans
• Aunt Bertha and the Glass Bottomed Boat
• Dandelion Greens
• Hanging out Sheets in the Middle of the Winter
• Standing in the Light
The Place 
• Transformation
• The Black River in Ludlow, Vermont
• High Water
• The Baptist Church across the Road
• The Mill Owner’s Daughter
• Pop
• Shoveling Snow
• Splitting Wood at 100 Main Street
• Reading at 100 Main Street
The Boy 
• Coach
• Point Guard
• Playing with Balls
Mothers and Fathers 
• In Memory of Elizabeth Sweet Pease
• For My Mother
• Searching for My Mother’s Headstone
• My Mother’s Funeral
• Diving at Red Bridge
• Great is thy Faithfulness
• Song for my Father
• In Memory of the Gold Star Mothers
• Aunt Peg and the Vietnam Memorial
• The Happy Warrior
Godfreys 
• South Hill Girls
• Aunt Ethel
• Croquet in Tyson, Vermont
• Haying on South Hill
• Uncle Ted
• Great-Grandmother’s Donuts
• Aunt Sally
• Cousin Tarley on All Saints Day
Closings 
Song from the Basement
The Nursing Home on Gill Terrace
The Sewing Basket
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Poem from David Landrey
Back Cover

Copyright @ 2016 by Stanford J. Searl, Jr.