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Garden of Grasses
Literary Unveilings

Garden of Grasses is a Web-only literary anthology which has been compiled and edited by Lucille Younger, Mary Lambert, and Alan Harris. The 330 poems, stories, and essays here (previously unpublished) were submitted by 43 authors from various parts of the world. The contents are indexed by title, by author, and by topic for your convenience. You may also read a short profile of each author.

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Introduction

Left to itself, wild grass will grow, thrive, and die in unknown and unlikely places. Likewise, for a variety of reasons, many gifted writers find their work being read only by friends and relatives and then stored in file drawers for an uncertain posterity.

Garden of Grasses is a project to present previously unpublished literary gems so that they may have the readership they deserve.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.

Mary Lambert and Alan Harris
Co-Editors

Author Index (Poems & All Other Genres)
(Click on a name below to proceed to that person's titles.)

Charles Albano

Happy Holidays! - a poem

Hope, a poem

Nudie and the Beast, light verse

A Thanksgiving Prayer, a poem

Washington at Mount Vernon, a poem

April Ardis Anderson
(see more of her work in Heartplace)

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

Philip Bailey

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

Señor Bolsa

Fool's Gold, a poem

James Brittain

Thought Children, an essay

Amanda Burchfield

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

Sally Carson

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

Coley Couture

Gary Czerwinski

Three Poems, a set of poems

DarkEyes

Juanita DeHart

Kevin Drapela

Untitled, a poem

Robert Esha

Death, a poem
Uncollected Soul, a poem

Linda Etheridge
(see more of her work in Heartplace)

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

Melissa Gammill

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

John Greer

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

Linda Dominique Grosvenor
(see more of her work in Heartplace)

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

Alan Harris
(see more of his work in Heartplace)

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

William A. Holt

Kevin Koh In-Chuen

For My Beloved......, a poem

Ken Johnson

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

Patricia Kelley-Bledsoe

The Hero Raven, a short story

John Kent
(see more of his work in Heartplace)

Mary Lambert
(see more of her work in Heartplace)

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

Joanne Marisa Leow

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

Wendy Loh

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

Barbara Lutz

The Race, a poem

Jill Moore

Broken Triangle, a short story

Jim Moore

The Inside Cry, a poem

Charlie Morgan

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

Beth Pauli

Clarence Pedersen
(see more of his work in Heartplace)

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

Lois Pedersen

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

John Pillsbury

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

Cynthia Proctor
(see more of her work in Heartplace)

Johnny Sorehand

No Sooner, a poem
Ronnie Discovered, a poem

Nicholas John Street
(see more of his work in Heartplace)

Allen Thomas

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

Penelope Tippen

Gwendolyn Verner

Taxi Cab, a short story

Gayle Watson
(see more of her work in Heartplace)

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

Carolyn Willis-Smith

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

Lucille Younger

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

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Links for further reading

"The moment one gives
close attention to anything,
even a blade of grass,
it becomes a mysterious, awesome,
indescribably magnificent world in itself."
--Henry Miller

"Garden of Grasses" Is Now Complete

Three years (1996 through 1999) saw the Garden of Grasses site grow from zero to 330 selections (poems, short stories, and essays) written by 43 authors from many parts of the world. In August of 1996 Lucille Younger and Alan Harris co-founded this site, and after the middle of 1998 Mary Lambert and Alan Harris were its co-editors.

We have enjoyed making this previously-unpublished literary work available to the public. It was never fun to return some of the work submitted to us, since we've experienced the rejection scene ourselves, but we hope you'll agree that the work we have accepted and published is well worth your while.

We are no longer accepting submissions to Garden of Grasses because of the site's large size, but we hope that readers will continue to visit this anthology often for inspiration and entertainment. Thanks are extended to all of the individual authors who contributed their works to this collection, and to the many readers who have discovered it and followed its growth.

In December of 1999 we launched a new literary site entitled Heartplace which you are invited to visit for reading or for submission of your own work.

Mary Lambert
Alan Harris
Co-Editors of Garden of Grasses and Heartplace

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