vermont, so far, in alphabetical order

Bell peppers. Bonfires. Brown mink. Canadian accents. Carvers, painters, printers, poets, writers. Chickpeas, kidney beans, miso. Dance party. Dobsonflies. Don't touch the dog's ears. Eagle with fish in its talons. Early to bed. Early to rise. Ghetto blasters. Green paint. Hendrick's. Galveston hurricane of 1900. Gihon River. High river. Inheritance: two space-shuttle photos of Patagonia. Last meals of the condemned. Late fire. Legwarmers. Legal pad to-do list. Mandarins. New poems. Old poems. Pale marble. Revised poems. Rolling Rocks. Rumors of ghosts. Sheet cookie, still warm. Loaner dogs. Smell: cumin and something else for dinner. Smell: musty house. Smell: new paint. Smell: pine, grass. So many scarves.  Teal walls & pink curtains. Thirteen to a table. Upside-down Big Dipper. Warm bread. Vermont cavalcade: Saabs, Volvos, Jeeps. What are you, artist or writer? What do you work in?