April twilights, and other poems

The collection brings together early and later lyrics that move between Midwestern prairie scenes and classical European landscapes, pairing domestic memory with mythic evocations. Poems revisit childhood and rural labor, meditate on love and loneliness, and register seasonal shifts from spring thaw to winter stillness. Formal range includes tender ballads, elegies, and narrative fragments that deploy vivid natural imagery—prairie dawns, hawthorns, poppies—and classical allusions to Delphi, Antinous, and martyrs. Throughout, an elegiac, reflective voice balances quiet domestic detail with high, mythic gestures, producing a persistent strain of nostalgia and yearning for vanished time and place.