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.