Introduction

Garden of Grasses is a project to present previously unpublished literary gems so that they may have the readership they deserve. Garden of Grasses began simple and free-spirited in 1996, and has grown naturally (like grasses) in directions set by its contents, contributors, and readers.

Lucille Younger, Mary Lambert, and Alan Harris
Co-Editors

• Aged Truth, a poem
• archetype, a poem
• Do Not Belong, a poem
• Drawing Near, Painting Nigh, a poem
• In the Crowded Hall, a poem
• Lucky Sap, a poem
• Memory, a poem
• Nocturnal Melody, a poem
• Paintbrush Paints a Thousand Lives, a poem
• Paul's Face, a poem
• Plane Ride, a poem
• Sleep Awakens, a poem
• S.O.S., a poem
• Those Summer Days, a poem
• Three Dawns, a poem
• A Toast, a poem
• Untitled, a poem
• Well Spent, a poem
• What, Ms. Wynkoop? a poem

• Chance Encounter, a poem
• Good-Bye, a short story
• Hope, a poem
• Lives in the Balance, an essay

• Fool's Gold, a poem

• Thought Children, an essay
  

• Broken Record, a poem
• Exotic Sweetness, a poem
• Tender, a poem

• Appearances Can Be Deceptive, a short story
• A Conversation in C and D Minor, a short story
• The Fatwa of Harriet Beecher Stowe, a short story
• Lemming Dreams and Nightmare Follies, a short story

• A Happy Little Story, a poem
• It'll Be the Time, a poem
• Something To Think About, a poem

• Three Poems, a set of poems

• As I Watch Life Pass By, a poem
• Awakening With You, a poem
• Cosmic Dust, a poem
• In Sleep He's Mine, a poem
• Lovers, a poem
• No Better Man, a poem
• Reflections, a poem
• Tell Me, a poem

• Christmas All Year Round, a poem
• A Christmas Feast, a poem
• Closed Cocoon, a poem
• Inner Wings, a poem

• Untitled, a poem

• Death, a poem
• Uncollected Soul, a poem

• The Friendship Ring, a poem
• To My Last Love, a poem

• Beginnings, a poem
• Carvings, a poem
• Defining, a poem
• For Shelley, a poem
• last hurrah, a poem
• Salvation, a poem
• Stupor, a poem

• Choice, a poem
• Drive-by, a poem
• A Kiss, a poem

• Accomplice, a poem
• Credible, a poem
• Hands, a poem
• Kiss, a poem
• Perfection, a poem

• Angels of the Sunset, a photographic poem
• Asking the Quiet Fire, a photographic essay
• Bee, a haiku poem
• Briefing, a poem
• Bunga Rucka, a poem with photographs
• Christmas Awakening, a poem
• Christmas Haiku, a set of haiku poems
• A Christmas Light, a poem
• Clouds, a poem
• Commuting Past the 'Hood, a poem
• Cottonwood Seeds, an essay
• Counting to One, a poem
• Dilemma, a poem
• An Evening Question, a poem
• Falls Visitor, a poem
• Five Definings, a poem
• Five Haiku, a set of haiku poems
• Frequently Asked Questions About Christmas, an essay
• Grandstand Fantasy, a photographic poem
• Griefs That Stay, a poem
• Haiku Poems, a set of haiku poems
• Here and the Ground, a poem
• Here at the Close of Christmas Day, a poem
• Interpreting Geese, a poem
• Listening to Christmas, a poem
• Meeting, a poem
• A Millennial Date, a poem
• Night, a poem
• One Mystery in Two Metaphors, a set of poems
• Passing Through, a poem
• Peace - Its Inner Hiding Places, a photographic essay
• Railing West, a poem
• The Scrooge Before Christmas, an essay
• seeing you, a poem
• Shopping Cheap, a poem
• Spirits and Spooks, a poem
• Still Life, a poem
• Storm Tea, a poem
• Table Grace, a poem
• Thoughts Along a Winter's Walk, a photographic essay
• Trees without Talk, a photographic essay
• To Wake Up To, a poem
• Trusting Emotions - Are We Safe in Them?, an essay
• Watching No Baseball, a poem
• Within Our Keep, a poem
• Wounded Holidays, a poem

• Military Intelligence, a poem
• Of Trees and E's, light verse by
• Ouija, a poem
• Pentheus to Dionysos, a poem
• Putting It Off, a poem
• Spring Song for the Crane Fly, a poem
• Vacation, a poem
• A Villanelle for Vulcan, a poem

• For My Beloved......, a poem

• Christmas, a poem
• A Christmas Wish, a poem
• Haiku Poetry, a set of haiku poems

• The Hero Raven, a short story

• Battlefields, a poem
• Casualty of War, a poem
• Death Is Not a Solitary Thing, a poem
• Jimmy, a poem
• The Man in the House, a poem
• Never Forgotten, a poem
• Paradox, a poem
• The Stoop Sitters, a poem
• A Summer Walk, a poem
• Taps, a poem
• A Walk in a Dark Place, a poem

• Adagio, a poem
• Birdbath, a poem
• The Buddha, a poem
• Clear Water, a poem
• Easter, a poem
• The Fall, a poem
• Fate, a poem
• Golgotha, a poem
• The Greatest Gift, a poem
• Heat, a poem
• The Heron, a poem
• Infidel, a poem
• Inheritance, a poem
• The Lie, a poem
• Moving North, a poem
• Mr. Lincoln's Face, a poem
• Nadir, a poem
• New World, a poem
• Ocean, a poem
• Octobre, a poem
• Pines, a poem
• Points East, a poem
• Rain, a poem
• Saturn, a poem
• The Silver Forest, a poem
• Starlings and Crows!, a poem
• Timpany, a poem
• Toward November, a poem
• A Walk through the Dark Blue Night, a poem

• Acquiescence, a poem
• Ambivalence, a poem
• Anhedonia, a poem
• Asphyxia, a poem
• Bereft, a poem
• Brink, a poem
• Burning Forests, a poem
• Claritas, a poem
• Dancing, a poem
• Day After Anniversary, a poem
• The Dragon in My Eyes, a poem
• Drowning, a poem
• The Duality of the Japanese Meal, a poem
• The Funeral Band, a poem
• Happenstance, a poem
• Hara Kiri, a poem
• Heartbeat, a poem
• I Have Begun, a poem
• hurt(L)ing, a poem
• Illicit, a poem
• Love Is Only Tachycardia, a poem
• Misery, a poem
• My Knee Song, a poem
• Nososphobia, a poem
• Post-Embrace, a poem
• Premonition, a poem
• Regret, a poem
• Restraint, a poem
• Somnambulism, a poem
• Spirit in a Bottle, a poem
• Strange Moods, a poem
• Tea on My Leg, a poem
• A Thing of Anguish, a poem
• Thunderstorm, a poem
• Trial by Fire, a poem
• Why I Am Silent, a poem

• Happy, a poem
• Pointless, a poem
• When it has ended..., a poem

• The Race, a poem

• Broken Triangle, a short story

• The Inside Cry, a poem

• For the Preacher, a poem
• The Fourth Window, a poem
• The Road To..., a poem
• The Song, a poem
• Untitled, a poem
• Vinnie, a short story

• Asylum of My Mind, a poem
• a bird's song, a poem
• Cast Shadow, a poem
• The Comfort of Constant Motion, a poem
• ecstasy, a poem
• endure, a poem
• a father's knowledge, a poem
• Graveyard Dance, a poem
• I Beg of You, My Love, a poem
• liberty to say, a poem
• Life Graffiti, a poem
• a love lost, a poem
• Physical Sense, a poem
• table talk, a poem
• tired but fully clothed, a poem
• turn from the mirror, a poem
• What Am I?, a poem
• Why God?, a poem

• As I Was Growing Up, an essay
• The Experiment, a short story

• A Declaration of Dependence, an essay
• Ode to the Darkness, a poem

• 50-year reunion, light verse
• billy bob, light verse
• The Bus Driver, light verse
• The Cowboy, light verse
• Each Thought a Prayer, a poem
  
• God and Tenure, light verse
• Illusion, a poem
• Internet Lovers, light verse
• king dan, light verse
• Life after Life, a poem
• Perfect Marriage, light verse
• Thinking Is Believing, a poem
• Under the Tree, light verse
• Y2K, light verse

• Bird's-eye View, a poem
• Christmas Pixieland, a poem
• Currents to Nowhere, a poem
• Diamond Dusted, a poem
• Guardian of the Dream, a poem
• How Peaceful, This Night, a poem
• Night Dance, a poem
• Sleeping Babe, a poem
• Take Me, a poem

• No Sooner, a poem
• Ronnie Discovered, a poem

• Connection, a poem
• Liverpool Street Station, a poem
• Madhouse, a poem
• One Nanosecond, a poem
• Sculptures on Water, a poem
• Writer's Block, a poem
• Yew Tree, a poem

• 3 a.m., a poem
• Accosted, a poem
• The Emperor Strikes Back, a short story

• Doux et Sage (Soft and Wise), a poem
• Je lui a donne, a poem
• Nova Scotians All, a poem
• Soft and Wise, a poem
• Statue of Liberty, a poem

• Taxi Cab, a short story

• Dawn to Dusk, a poem
• Premonitions, a poem
• Serenity, a poem

• Eager for Spring, a poem
• Erection of a Wall, a poem

• Falling, a poem
• Place Values, a poem
• Running from the Sun, a poem
• Seeing, a poem
• A Tear in the Universe: Sisters of Charity, BVM, an essay