Poem Index

The following are poems that may be found on The Poetry of William Hammett. All are copyrighted. You may access them from the list below. You may also access any page on the site from the site map below each poem.

A

African Dream

After Reading Haiku

All Afternoon I Have Been Looking

All the Songs I Never Played

Along the Meridian Nerve

Apocalypse

April Mayhem

Artisan

Assumptions

Audacity of Ripples, The

B

Big Sky Country

Birds on the Wire

Birth

Black Lady Mountain

Black Satin Dress

Blue Jay

Buddha's Tour Dates Have Been Canceled, The

Busker

C

Calypso

Cardinal

Carny

Catch, The

Christmas Eve

Circle

Circles in the Dirt

Coffee

Collateral Damage

Comet, The

Commuter Train

Corner Bar, The

D

Dashiell

Day and Night

Dead Are Forever Writing Letters, The

Deeper Music

Deposition

Doppelganger

E

Eight Threads From the Morning Paper

Emily Dickinson, I Love You

Equations

Essence of a Poem

Eternity in the Key of C

Evening Is Full of Toads, The

Evenings in B Minor

Every Year

F

Faith

Falling Into You

Far Cry from Innisfree, A

Film at Eleven

Film Archive

Fishing by the Cutbank

Flower in the Desert, A

Footnotes in the Kingdom of God

Front Matter

G

Gardening in the Upper Case

Gazing at Sirius

Gemini Rising

Genesis

H

Hallway, The

Herons

Hope

Hot Red Apocalypse

Husband Speaks to His Wife, A

I

I Have Heard Tales

Illusion

Importance of Buttered Toast, The

In the Wake of the Whale

In the Wings

Interlude

It Is a Fearful Thing

J

Journeyman

L

Lastly

Leaving Las Vegas

Like a Wheel Rolling

Listening to the Beatles

Looking at My Bookcase

Lost and Found

Lotus

Lucid Dream

Luncheon on the Grass, The

M

Magic

Magnetism

Main Street

Man Who Carried Water, The

Marginalia

Meeting Mr. Tennyson

Memory of You, 1976, The

Meter and Rhyme

Midwest Carnival

Migrations

Moon-Driven

Mountain Beyond the Meadow, The

Mountain, Plain

Mozart

Multiply the Answer by Pigeons

N

Need to Move On, The

New Orleans, April 2023

New York Times Crossword Puzzle, The

Night on the Ocean

O

Oak Cabinet

Old Man and the Cart, The

Old Sky

On Any Given Day

Once More by the Lake

P

Paleolithic

Paradise Lost

Peaches

Peasant

Pebble of Bone, A

Perspective

Philosophical Elm, A

Photograph

Picasso in My Bedroom, The

Plane, The

Playing the Guitar

Plum-Sweet

Poet at Minimum Wage, The

Porch, The

Prophet

R

Rag Collector, The

Reaching

Remington

Retrograde

Rue Montclair

S

Sacrifice of Isaac, The

Sanctuary

Saxophone Perfume

Scorpio

Scrimshaw

Second Time Around, The

Service Station Attendant

Shed, The

Shotgun House

Silhouettes

Simple Poem, A

Sliver of Moon, A

Small Sparrow

So Much Depends upon a Windowsill

Some Other Day

Some Things Are Never the Same

Spirit

Sounding

Stalemate

Stone Canyons

Stories

Strange Rivers

Sunset over Lake Pontchartrain

Swords into Plowshares

T

Tales Told to the Water

Tall Pine Trees in a Hurricane

Tapestry

Thousand Sitars, A

Tomorrow I Will Be in Paris

Tracks

Tree in Barcelona, A

Turning of the Stars, The

Turning on My Axis

U

Upon Awaking

V

View

Vignette Noir

Violet Girl, The

Visiting Saint Joseph Abbey

W

Waiting for the Mandala to Move

We Write the Endings

Wine-Dark Seas

What If

When the World Goes Digital

Whitewater Bend

Wide River

Wine Country

Wink, The

Winter's Tale, A

Woman on the Subway, The

Writing a Poem

Y

Yearning at the Time of Equinox

Yesterday

Yoga Hippie Chick

Z

Zen

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