Poet and translator Sidney Wade is professor emerita of creative writing at the University of Florida. She is the author of seven collections of poetry: Bird Book, Straits & Narrows, Stroke, Celestial Bodies, Empty Sleeves, Green, and From Istanbul/İstanbul'dan.

With short lines and sly, syncopated rhymes, Wade's nature poems contain bliss and terror all at once, as when a vole plays in "fluid light / that screens the cryptic cat." —New York Times

• New Poems (2017-2019)Fata MorganaThree VoicesBeesPollen"Human Food Consists Entirely of Souls"Here, Kitty Kitty Kitty KittyRosy Maple MothMemento MoriBirdwatchingFigure and Ground: Cryptic Camouflage and Vishal Rhyme32 BirdsJunco in SnowNature PoetsSeeing the OpthalmologistEyeSkinFabricBreathFearBlood MoonSpring Blizzard in Denmark, KansasNothing NewYellow-crowned Tyrannulet, Cock of the Rock, Northern Screamerthree small movementsThe FootGravediggersWood Storkfrom Empty Sleeves (1991)Snowy OwlSwan LakeA Local HabitationApostrophe to, and Roses for, BeatriceBeatrice RisingA River of TonguesPungent SaucesDe Ratione AmorisLeaving RomeGasLocus AmoenusKansas WeatherThe Church and the SteepleThe CombineKirkeskibe—The Ship in the Churchfrom Green (1998)BricolageAnother Passionless DayIn the LibraryTrapped in my Rib-cage, Something Throes and Aches . . .Premature Ventricular ContractionsAlcaic FigureDog SonnetByzantiumDolphins in the SnowDrinking Wine on a Hill Above the Confluence of the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn Cow FordMarriage: A MomentFor My MotherShoreRainGreenfrom From Istanbul/Istanbul'dan (1998)Termessosfrom Celestial Bodies (2002)Mouth-RiverChin SongUn Messagio per il CorpoIdeology Stinks, But the Heart Smells PureApproaching FiftyOut for a WalkArs LongaTime is MoneyTime and a DogSundog to MoondogPluteus PetasatusChimaeraDancing at the Binbir Gecefrom Stroke (2007)No Comfort to be HadDeep GossipInsuranceThe Visionary from ApopkaThe Body PoliticTime's List of Things to DoThe Vulgate of ExperienceFour Tiny SonnetsDriving to AssosHystericalectomyDroughtAvant-gardening on my weeping kneesLittle Pirate SongGrand DisasteryA Computerized Jet Fountain in the Detroit Metro Airportfrom Straits & Narrows (2013)Animist ManifestoBoulderInterludeSuch LuckIn the Mood for LoveFormPrairieThe CreepsWild RaspberryOLittoralHybridPeonyStuckRun OnMy IstanbulGeepfrom Bird Book (2017)first green flareA BirdBurrowing OwlBirdsIndigo BuntingMarsh PoodleCardinalKilldeer BathingWhimbrelTurkey VulturesGlory TrainBirding at the Hamilton County Phosphate MinesBird WordsLoonBlueOsprey and NeedlefishBirding at the Dairythirty whiteThe Hard SavingNotesAcknowledgments

Poet and translator Sidney Wade is professor emerita of creative writing at the University of Florida. She is the author of seven collections of poetry: Bird Book, Straits & Narrows, Stroke, Celestial Bodies, Empty Sleeves, Green, and From Istanbul/İstanbul'dan.

With short lines and sly, syncopated rhymes, Wade's nature poems contain bliss and terror all at once, as when a vole plays in "fluid light / that screens the cryptic cat." —New York Times

• New Poems (2017-2019)Fata MorganaThree VoicesBeesPollen"Human Food Consists Entirely of Souls"Here, Kitty Kitty Kitty KittyRosy Maple MothMemento MoriBirdwatchingFigure and Ground: Cryptic Camouflage and Vishal Rhyme32 BirdsJunco in SnowNature PoetsSeeing the OpthalmologistEyeSkinFabricBreathFearBlood MoonSpring Blizzard in Denmark, KansasNothing NewYellow-crowned Tyrannulet, Cock of the Rock, Northern Screamerthree small movementsThe FootGravediggersWood Storkfrom Empty Sleeves (1991)Snowy OwlSwan LakeA Local HabitationApostrophe to, and Roses for, BeatriceBeatrice RisingA River of TonguesPungent SaucesDe Ratione AmorisLeaving RomeGasLocus AmoenusKansas WeatherThe Church and the SteepleThe CombineKirkeskibe—The Ship in the Churchfrom Green (1998)BricolageAnother Passionless DayIn the LibraryTrapped in my Rib-cage, Something Throes and Aches . . .Premature Ventricular ContractionsAlcaic FigureDog SonnetByzantiumDolphins in the SnowDrinking Wine on a Hill Above the Confluence of the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn Cow FordMarriage: A MomentFor My MotherShoreRainGreenfrom From Istanbul/Istanbul'dan (1998)Termessosfrom Celestial Bodies (2002)Mouth-RiverChin SongUn Messagio per il CorpoIdeology Stinks, But the Heart Smells PureApproaching FiftyOut for a WalkArs LongaTime is MoneyTime and a DogSundog to MoondogPluteus PetasatusChimaeraDancing at the Binbir Gecefrom Stroke (2007)No Comfort to be HadDeep GossipInsuranceThe Visionary from ApopkaThe Body PoliticTime's List of Things to DoThe Vulgate of ExperienceFour Tiny SonnetsDriving to AssosHystericalectomyDroughtAvant-gardening on my weeping kneesLittle Pirate SongGrand DisasteryA Computerized Jet Fountain in the Detroit Metro Airportfrom Straits & Narrows (2013)Animist ManifestoBoulderInterludeSuch LuckIn the Mood for LoveFormPrairieThe CreepsWild RaspberryOLittoralHybridPeonyStuckRun OnMy IstanbulGeepfrom Bird Book (2017)first green flareA BirdBurrowing OwlBirdsIndigo BuntingMarsh PoodleCardinalKilldeer BathingWhimbrelTurkey VulturesGlory TrainBirding at the Hamilton County Phosphate MinesBird WordsLoonBlueOsprey and NeedlefishBirding at the Dairythirty whiteThe Hard SavingNotesAcknowledgments