Caught between Coasts : collected poems 1989-2018 By Jan Chronister.

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Caught between coasts -- On Potato Island -- Windfall -- Grandfather's arms -- Farmhouse steps -- Haying time -- Expecting high water -- At the table -- Upstairs bedroom on a hot summer night -- Lull -- Lu-Ray Love -- My childhood -- Bible lesson -- Runaway -- First grade -- Playing marbles -- What's that perfume you're wearing? -- Spoiler -- Piercings -- List -- Grounded -- Station wagon on a Friday afternoon -- Planting Ground Lake, 1957 -- Sweet tooth -- Life in Oulu -- Paradise lost -- Old testaments -- Circle the wagons -- Milk truck -- Tenth month -- October dirge -- Yard work -- No utopia -- In the doorway -- Winter comes to Mr. B's -- Golden delicious -- February in Oulu -- No word -- Maple, RFD -- Buying stamps on March 16 -- Why do they call it Spring Break? -- Hidden stuff -- Whatever is lost -- Highway 13 soliloquy -- Rock collector -- Prom night -- Spring cleaning -- Death in June -- Presence -- Company town -- Dry spell -- Shell game -- Morning meal -- On the road to Rochester -- Amnicon confession -- White crosses -- Friday night -- Sitting on the septic tank -- Desire -- Pansy dancer -- Masquerade -- Sylvia's clouds -- Miscarriage -- A woman's place -- Body of work -- Making beds in North Dakota -- Effect of sleeping children -- Aunt Martha -- "Geez Louise" -- Grandmother Metal -- Arizona aunt -- Price of milk -- Workhorse -- Divorce -- Steel hearts -- Valentine's Day -- Flowering -- My children -- Portage -- Letter to myself at forty -- Backfilling -- Prenuptials -- Old Glory -- Singer -- Aune's Club -- Memorial Day -- Trajectory -- Hanging on -- Thoughts while baking bread -- Walking sticks -- Diminshment -- If the sweatshirt fits -- Personal effects -- Hunting season -- Chest of drawers -- Checking out -- Assisted living -- Ashes to ashes.

She currently serves as president of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and lives in the woods near Maple, Wisconsin, with her husband and a geriatric cat.