Foreword by Jennifer Horne I. New Poems The Lost Book of Life; No More Words;Tomorrow the Children;The Golden Girl Who Never Gave Her Wings Away; Womb; Chess Life; Bird Nests; The Raven''s Cry; The River of Time; Sacred Hours; Night Writer; Awakenings; Window Pains; The Dark Sweet Silence; Must We Always Pretend; Native Sun; You Don''t Have To; We Are One; One; Swimming My Way Back Home; Midnight Swim; Boys in a Dory; Beyond the Door; The Forest Is a Poem; Journey of Hope; When I Talk to My Father; May You Be My Love; This Is the One; The Cauling; In Your Hands; Answered Prayer; Julie''s Song; Seize the Moon; Flowers Like Us; Come Tuesday Even If It Snows; Last Word; and Waiting for the Night. II. From Returning to Earth (1989) Divers; A Fighter Learns of Hands; The Tryout; Coach; The Bass Fisherman; Hunting the Cotaco Creek; Keeping a Gun in the House; The Unsuccessful Farmer; The Alabama Elm; The Alabama Wiregrassers; and When Howard Flew into His Resurrection. III. From Wings of Fire (1992) Solace; Parting Shadows; Wings of Fire; Second Eve; Confession; Vespers; After Mass; Silent Vows; At the Sign of the Cross; Acolytes; Evening Reverie; Sotto Voce; Act of Contrition; Equal Rites; and Deliver Us Not. IV. From Speaking in Tongues (1994) Alabama; Best Man; The Bowman''s Hand; The Woman in the Bleachers; The Untold Truth About Hank; Nocturnal Roll Call; Painted Windows; Keeping Things Holy; The Adoration of Eve; Poem As Priest; and White Sheets.

V. From Plastic Soup: Dream Poems (1999) Bull Rider; No Hunting Signs; A Martian Hides in the Supermarket; Pitcher Perfect; Making Love to the Statue of Liberty; Xenophobia; The Angel Dream; Brave New Whirl; Peace Talks; Cupid''s Revenge; Over Herd; Oak; and Dragon Death. VI. From Love Poems (1999) Morning; The Perfect Love Poem; It Would Be Easy; Royal Love; Present Light; The Answer of Love; A Gift of Flowers; Counting the Stars; Your Eyes; Your Song; I Used to Know My Name; Dreaming Awake; Give Me Ten More Years; and The Order of Words. VII. From Haiku: The Travelers of Eternity (2001) October; November; December; January; February; March; April; May; June; July; August; and September. VIII. From A Fury of Motion (2003) Baseball Dreams; Air Force; April Sideshow; Autumn''s Way; Snowfall in the City; The Leopard of Loneliness; Tell Me; Trip; Inspiration; and Art.

IX. From Stones: The Collected Short Poems of Charles Ghigna (2019) I; Lion; Ant Farm; Picket Fence; Homerun Voyeur; The Ballet of a Boxing Fan; Riding Home from the Funeral; Attic Haiku; Poem Hunter; The Good Poem; Honest Lies; Lazy Susan; The Hunch; Détente; Eve; and There''s a U-Haul in the Driveway. X. From Dear Poet: Notes to a Young Writer (2019) Do Not Tell; Hang a Picture; A Simple Truth; When in Need of the Poem; Do Not Write; No Matter How Many Poems; Run Yell Spit at the Dark; Style Is Not How You Write; Trust Your Instincts; Inspiration Is Lightning; Look in the Mirror; A Silent Rhyme; The Path; Poems Are Not Penned; Don''t Plant Your Poems; A Poet''s Life; A Poem Is the Echo; A Poem Is a Rising Moon; A Poem Is a Spider Web; A Poem Is a Firefly; A Poem Is a Play; A Poem Is a Whisper; It''s Not the Poem; and The Answer to the Poet. XI. From Illusions: Poetry & Art for the Young at Heart (2019) Life''s An Illusion; Optical Allusion; Indigo; Hands That See; Ars Longa, Vita Brevis; and Be Still in the World. XII. From Artwords: Artists & Poets, Portraits in Verse (2021) Claude Monet; Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; Mary Cassatt; Vincent Van Gogh: A Villanelle; Pablo Picasso; Georgia O''Keeffe; Robert Hayden; Ezra Pound; Sylvia Plath; Anne Sexton; Emily Dickinson; Robert Frost; Carl Sandburg; and Walt Whitman.

XIII. From The Truth About Trees (2021) The Truth About Trees; Treescape; Ever Green; Suddenly September; The Cold Gray Days of Winter; A River of Stars; Think Like a River; Obeying Stones; Trees of Fire; Respect the Fire; The Shape of Life; On Edge; The Edge of the Universe; and Night Trees. XIV. From The Father Goose Treasury (2023) Quiet Days; Bird Nest; Air Ships; Moon; Orion''s Way; Stormy; After the Storm; Autumn; November; The Wild Geese; Winter Calls; Winter is a Poet; Sunrise; The Thunder; Roses After the Rain; Summertime; Racing the Wind; Country Roads; and A Poem Is a Little Path. XV. From Southern Bred: A Memoir (2025) Southern Bred; 1952; Jimmy''s Dad; Paper Planes; The Basement; Fish; Riding to School; In the Shadow of the Raven; Buck Dancing; Hunting Boys; When Howard Became Jesus; Shop Class; Guilt Lifts Me Up; Falling Down Another Birthday Dream; Pitching Horseshoes; Riding Trains; The Bridge; Samuel; and Cleaning Out the Closet.