And just for fun – here is the Table of Contents. I am drawn to titles, so perhaps some of these will entice you.

Days of Soup and Holler

ORDER OF POEMS

Section One: Take One

1. She Saw Elephants 
2. Before the Rebellion
3. Picnic Tree (Away at Boarding School)
4. Growing up in a Castle
5. Prodigal Daughter
6. But What of the Other Mothers
7. My Life Story in Music
8. Leaving
9. Lila Fae Hancock (Single Days)

Section Two: Then Came Love – Married Life

1. I am woman, Dance Me!
2. Narnia Today
3. Sit Yourself DOWN Girl (Momentary Madness of owning a Harley)
4. Soundtrack: We all wish we had one! (Written when I was mad at my husband and somehow talking in a Southern Accent made me forget)
5. Bared Claws
6. Strengthen me with Raisins
7. Every Other Breath I Take
8. Benediction
9. “I Will Not Pretend That My Hands Don’t Work”
10. Toward Paper, Toward Pen
11. The High Holy Now (I had to pull this one out at a Poetry Slam for the WIN when the poet with a score closest to mine had gotten straight 10’s in the second round – it still makes blush.)

Section Three: Wild, Crazy Children

1. “Warm Chocolate Milk, Not Hot, Warm!”
2. Secrets for a Mommy’s Soul
3. As Loud as my Fingers Can Snap
4. This Much I Know
5. I was a Dark Storm Cloud
6. Hot Tears Fall into the Freshly Cleaned Commode
7. The Turtles have Left the Building
8. Wrestling with Night
9. Boomerangs for Sale
10. Christmas in Deep Freeze
11. Say Yes
12. Great and Simple Images that Open our Hearts
13. Superstar
14. Constantly Knocking Over the Teacups
15. There are Pillars
16. I Have Been Waiting my Whole Entire Life for this Moment!
17. The Stories of our Lives
18. Here’s to Hilarious Late-Night Snacking
19. The Resistance will Speak French
20. Pot. Kettle. Black.
21. This May Backfire
22. You are All This and Then Some
23. Mothers
24. Brains on Fire
25. Stay

Section Four: A Poet Peeks Out at the World

1. Days of Soup & Holler
2. A $68.9 Million Dollar Modigliani Painting and a Homeless Man
3. All this Talk of Rosemary and Religion
4. Ferocious Calm
5. Metronome
6. Braille Bible
7. Hallelujah
8. She Thought, Perhaps, Azalea
9. Restored
10. Be Askew
11. The Beauty of a Strong, Silent Shoulder of Solace
12. Rebels
13. The Painting that Broke my Heart Wide Open

Section Five: Finding Home in a Community of Writers

1. Poem to Young Poets
2. As Trees are Born to Bear Leaves
3. My Poet Heart
4. My Quiet Place, My Still, Oh Where?
5. Sink Down Deep
6. The Secret Life of Words
7. This Page
8. Wonder at the Whimsy of Others
9. Craft
10. Once a Black Sheep
11. Grace Falls