These Common Mornings, This Common Night

By Pamela Steed Hill

Life is filled with ordinary occurrences and everyday simplicities that often go overlooked. In these poems, Pamela Steed Hill observes the commonplace—in nature, in love, in wine and food, in dogs, in family, in death.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pamela Steed Hill
• Release date: May 9, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458157386

Pamela Steed Hill

I'm a full-time editor and freelance writer and proofreader with a big passion for cooking. I've published nearly 200 food-related articles and recipes online. My approach to preparing food is simply to keep it fresh and real.I've also published more than 500 literary analyses with print and online educational publishers, and poems in over 100 journals. A collection, In Praise of Motels, was published by Blair Mountain Press in 1999.

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These Common Mornings,

This Common Night

By Pamela Steed Hill

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Copyright 2011 Pamela Steed Hill

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Poems in These Common Mornings, This Common Night have appeared in the following journals. All rights belong to the author.

After the Burglary, Shades of December

All Women Are Called November, Wolfhead

Ascent, Pavement Saw

August, 2River

Bending Water, Abbey

Confessing the Rose, Wind Magazine

Convalescent, Glass Works anthology

Driving 23, Pavement Saw

Drought, Xanadu

Earth, into Worlds, Agnieszka’s Dowry and Cap City Poets anthology

Horses, Snowapple

In the ICU Waiting Room, Shades of December

The Loneliness of Algebra, Art Times

The Miracle of Nothing, 2River

On a Bridge over the Olentangy, Raintown Review

Out of Love, poetry.com

The Packhorse, Shades of December

Remembering Lake Street, Thorny Locust

Renewal, Poem

The Separation, Writer’s Journal

Setting Table, Thanksgiving, 1971,Wisconsin Review

Spilling, The Poet’s Attic

Teaching Her Mirrors, Agnieszka’s Dowry

To an Agnostic on His Sixty-First Birthday, Whirligig

To the River, Pavement Saw

The Year in Eight Lines, The Aurorean

Table of Contents

PART I

Cold Water

The Packhorse

Earth, into Worlds

To the River

Bending Water

On a Bridge over the Olentangy

Renewal

Drought

Teaching Her Mirrors

When Tornado Sirens Sound and the Dog Won’t Budge

St. George Island

Driving 23

These Common Mornings, This Common Night

The Miracle of Nothing

PART II

Ascent

In the ICU Waiting Room

The Separation

Setting Table, Thanksgiving 1971

All Women Are Called November

Confessing the Rose

For No Reason

Aunt Doe

Stirring Peppers, Thinking