Lettuce in Winter

[woodstove and teapot]
 

Poems by Richard Bear

With drawings by Ernie Goertzen

Copyright © 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, Richard Bear (rbear@oregon.uoregon.edu)


 


These poems originally appeared on the Usenet group rec.arts.poems. Many have also appeared in the print volume Desire for the Land (1995) and the journals Bellowing Ark, Sand River Journal, New Zoo Poetry Review, Lynx: Poetry from Bath, Aerious, Feeling Trees, Disquieting Muses, Ariga: Visions, and Rockhurst Review.
Current html update: January 1997.

Contents:

 I. Stony Run

II. Smoke III. Taking Stone in Hand IV. Be Not Afraid V. In the Closed Vale

Richard Bear  took his BA, M.S. and MA degrees from the University of Oregon. He lives in Pleasant Hill, Oregon, with his family of five, plus assorted ducks, geese, rabbits, cats, and tomatoes. He plays the dulcimer and the pennywhistle.

 Ernie Goertzen is a retired librarian who has made a succesful second career painting in oils. He is also an accomplished photographer and a fine singer. He lives in Deadwood, Oregon, with his artist wife Mary Lou Goertzen.
 
 


 Navigation: the row of three dingbats is a row of navigational buttons. The right one will take you to the following poem or section. The left one will return you to the preceding poem or section. The center one will return you to this page. It is thus possible to read the poems sequentially, in book form, or hypertextually.

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