Places to Enter

By Nancy Ellingson

My writings come from recognition of the emotional essence of things.

It has been said that the true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

However, to put it another way: the experiencing of the visibleor the music / the poem / the dance / the paintingthat is the true mystery.

The artist cannot prescribe the full meaning a reader or viewer is to get from the work but can offer only small evidence of his/her own experience with the world. To me, it is magical that images both invite and resist interpretation.

I am working toward accepting the transience of naturelife itselfand of allowing the astonishing complexity of it to feel simple and wonderful.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Jun 28, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543432237

Nancy Ellingson

Nancy Ellingson has written poems and made drawings since she was a young girl. She taught high school English and Art; and Art Education at UW-La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin and Winona State University, Winona, Minnesota. She lives with her husband, Don, in La Crosse.

Book preview

Copyright © 2017 by Nancy Ellingson.

ISBN:                 Softcover                    978-1-5434-3224-4

                         eBook                       978-1-5434-3223-7

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

Rev. date: 06/28/2017

Xlibris

1-888-795-4274

www.Xlibris.com

[e-mail]

761946

Contents

‘Oh’

To See

The Dare

Geese Headed South at Midnight

Laurie Leaving

Camped at Saganaga Lake

Not What They Seem To Be

Concert

Spring Storm

Traveler

Time’s Name Is Tuesday

Hour Before Surgery:

Night After a Long Rain

Solo

Girl in Schoolyard

Roadkill

Two Rides

The Wish

Old/New moon

Longing for an Autumn Garden

Bird

Storm Coming

High House

The Astor Hotel

For Mary

Lullaby for Mary

A Bird Speaking in Tongues

What I know

Just Wondering

Looking for Far

Roots

June Prayer

Lean Time

What Are You Saying?

program

Wishing Them the Wild

Today My Friend Died

Last Toy

Lakefront: Milwaukee morning

Favorite Son

Still Life in Black and White

Please Stay for Tea

Have Song/Will Travel

My Only Note to Inez

Shell

Landscape

God Particles

God-particles

Words for Now

If The Hero Understands the Why

Nothing Lost or Everything

Haiku

Sixteen haiku 55/56

The Beloved

Eventually

Looking For Home

The Old Ones

Some Nights

This Woman

Her Kitchen

To Win

Gone in Terza Rima

Two Burials

Gifts

Tanenbaum

Poem for a Nephew

Just Asking

She Grew Old

Daughters’ Visit

Those I May Have Known

Teacher

How She Walked

Wall

On Angie’s Porch

Paragraph for a Woman

They Must Have Read Dylan

Taking Chances

Summer Workshop

Old Man’s Funeral

The Way of Love

Yard Sale

Woman

To A Man Who Has No Poems

The Far and Away

The Trees Bow in this Country

Easter Morning - Kiev

Haiku From a Churchyard - Kiev

Independence Day - a Warsaw Square

Modern Exhibit: Poland

Lilies for the Daughters of the Czars

Night Street on the Neva

At Lenin’s Tomb

Walk Through the Polish Exhibit in Moscow

Hope

C:\Users\Nancy\Desktop\IMG_1778.JPG

This book is

for my mother and father.

Their deep love for each other and their children

offered me a childhood both safe and peaceful.

I find myself wishing the same for all children.

Acknowledgments

Cover art and inside imagery by Nancy Ellingson

Some of the poems have appeared at various times in the following publications:

Poetry Now

Northeast

The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets

The Greenwood Gleaner

Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar

Poet Artist Collaborative

Poetry Out of Wisconsin

Juniper Press

40445.png

‘Oh’

To See

My eye