Can You Hear Me?

By Treva Lannan

Stark

In the early morning
the beginning light
through the gaunt trees
without their leaves
stand proud and tall
in their nakedness,
soon to be clothed in white.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 15, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477127285

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Copyright © 2012 by Treva Lannan.

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ISBN:                          Hardcover                          978-1-4771-2727-8

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Contents

Winter wear

Mom’s Sewing Machine

A November Day

Tranquility

Escape

May 6, 2011

A Silent Visit

An Interview with

My Guardian Ange

Worry

Family Bible with

Its Missing Page

Penny Candy

Contentment

The Ocean

From Below

Spring

Listening

Shredded

The Present

Again?

The New Baby

Aging

An Invitation on a

Sunday Afternoon

Love

Ellie

Aging

How To Be a Grandmother

Movies

The World’s Greatest County Fair

Broken Pipe and Miracles

My First Day

Neighbors When I Was a Child

Dance Lesson

Thirteen Ways to Avoid

Cleaning the Attic

Verbosity

Wearing of the Green

Tracks and Tracts

Sit Still, PLEASE

Spring in the Country

Resolutions

A Corner of a Room

in the Early Morning

Second Row Front

Ode to Age

Tribute

Believe (prose poem and haiku)

Shhhhh…

Time

Marriage

Lindsay and Andrew

on their wedding day

Neighborly Deed

Hints of Winter

Promises

A Glimpse

People in Six Words

Chestnuts

Living in Iowa Weather

in the 1930s

Fall

My Cat Finley

Crowning Glory

Shopping at Cosco

Fish Tanks

Tradition

Four Brothers’ Project

Good Friday

Time

Lifetime

My Oasis

Kane Lake, Minnesota

Kane Lake Revisited

Music and Memories

The Sun Porch

Memories of Past Christmases

My First Christmas Married

Pre- and Post-Christmas

Observing Christmas Shoppers

Wyoming Roads

Despair

Men and Nature

The Cure

Where Did She Go

Chris

The Accident

The Quilt Maker

Shut Out

Two Trees and Me

Morning View

Day by Day

Stark

Twilight

Family Reunion

Dad

A Southern Lady

Dedication

In memory of Jim

and

for my children

James

John

Teri and Tom

Gini

David and Mary

Mike

Joe

Zach

Jeff

Greg

Love is patient; love is kind

1 Corinthians 13:4

Winter wear

My first poem, September 9, 2006

Iowa winters were bitterly cold,

we wore long-legged underwear

this was before ski pants or tights

and girls wore dresses,

long stockings went over the underwear

held up by a garter belt,

a four inch band around the waist

with four elastic straps

two in front

two in back

clasps on the ends

to attach to the stockings,

wash day was on Monday

clothing changed weekly,

first day wearing our clean underwear

our legs were smooth

second day the underwear

began to stretch

remedied by a slight fold

in the back of the ankle

each day the fold got bigger

by the last day we looked deformed,

spring came with warm weather

and no long underwear

when Mom gave the word,

until then

out of sight we rolled down the stockings

up the underwear

a bulge at the ankle

one over the knee

with garter belt straps flapping

our legs free and cool,

back in sight

we reversed the procedure

our daily mantra

please God—warmer weather.