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Poem Title   Author
In All
Oct. 3, 1998
 
In Another's Hands
Jul. 29, 1999
 
In Answer to Amy's Question What's a Pickerel
Aug. 21, 2011
 
In Answer to Your Query
Jul. 22, 2003
 
In Art Rowanberry's Barn
Mar. 2, 2012
 
In Bed With A Book
Jul. 23, 2003
 
In Blackwater Woods
May. 3, 2009
Sep. 10, 2012
 
In Celebration of Surviving
Mar. 28, 2001
 
In Chandler Country
Nov. 17, 2010
 
In Early Spring
Apr. 5, 2009
 
In Extremis
Mar. 18, 2003
 
In Extremis: Poems about My Father
Jun. 18, 1995
Jun. 18, 1996
 
In Golden Gate Park that Day
Jan. 6, 1994
 
In Heaven It Is Always Autumn
Oct. 20, 2012
 
In Line At The Supermarket
Mar. 17, 2002
 
In Love with Raymond Chandler
Apr. 18, 2003
 
In Memoriam
Jul. 31, 2014
 
In Memoriam (VII)
Jan. 14, 2013
Jan. 14, 2014
 
In Memorium (excerpt)
Aug. 6, 2007
Aug. 6, 2005
Apr. 24, 1995
 
In Memory
Aug. 27, 1996
 
In memory of George Lewis, Great Jazzman
Dec. 14, 2005
 
 
In My Family
Jan. 3, 2003
Jan. 3, 2004
 
In My Long Night
Mar. 21, 2014
 
In My Next Life
Sep. 6, 2009
 

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