Alden A. Nowlan

One important piece of advice from Ranier Maria Rilke's Letters To a Young Poet is understood and acted upon, at least tentatively or partially, by most of the nineteen contributors to Prismatic Voices.

The obvious is what amazes me,

Marian I cannot begrudge

By eight o'clock they were both waiting for Margaret.

This is the tragedy that hounds and batters:

My father welcomed swallows, hanging horseshoes

When Ricky rode out to the grain field

Fly on the blue table

Sparrow come in my door, and at the window

Beside the horse troughs, General Grant