A Thrice Tilled Field
Concrete Poems
by Tim Moder
I. A Spell To Sever My Tether To Your Civilized World
aquifer, gravel pit, runway, thicket, anthill, greenhouse, ash borer,
cricket, headwater, island, gopher, meadow, waterfall, prism, rabbit,
hollow, mink farm, cat tails, centipede, marsh, blackberry, rockslide,
windmill, birch, fish ladder, drumlin, bumblebee, glade, garter snake,
June bug, kettle-moraine, delta, heather, black ice, prairie, witches-halo,
feathered aerie, vernal pools, will-o-the-wisp, darkling beetle, cuckoo
wasp, cowrie, blackthorn, coral reef, rooster, sturgeon, peacock, leach,
heart stone, blue jay, frozen beach, sawfly, possum, maple leaf.
II. A Spell To Lift My Feet Until I’m Standing on The Shoulders of Butterflies
swan, cicada, sparrow, finch, harebell, pinecone, paddlefish, birds foot
trefoil, blue vervain, red clay bluff, valerian, circle rainbow, amethyst,
glenn, peninsula, dogwood, pine marten, feather brush, badger, metronome
wind, petroglyph, floodplain, cape jasmine, skimmer, weevil, hollowed
stump, pricker, ground nest, blueberry slope, pine row plantings, boxelder,
moor, pumpkinseed, pyrite, winter growth, pocket gopher, farmers rest,
prairie, ermine, mountain pass, armadillo, raven, crow, muskie, polished
river stones, caribou, tadpole, horseshoe, moose, crayfish, ragweed,
meadow, mouse, glacier, geyser, palisade, flying squirrel, frozen lake.
III. A Spell To Bathe My Eyes In Aurora
snow tuber, wood tick, black-eyed-susan, estuary, painted canyon,
outcrop, wheel bug, copper falls, four leaf clover, dry creek, gulch,
turtle cairn, compass plant, glacial erratic, oriole, locust, plate tectonics,
water beetle, boulder, lichen, path, whippoorwill, spore sac, froth,
muskrat, garlic mustard, partridge pea, milkweed, wood anemone,
falcon, eagle, fault, fjord, willow, yarrow, antelope, boondocks,
barrows, laurel sphinx, downpour, photosynthesis, tortoise, arches,
puma, peat, mourning dove, orb weaver, wheat, effigy, dogwood,
ice, quicksand, full moon, archipelago, world without end.

About the Author
Tim Moder is a poet from northern Wisconsin. He is an enrolled member of The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. His poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Cutthroat, South Florida Poetry Journal, One Art, and others. He is the author of the chapbooks American Parade Routes (Seven Kitchens), and The Angel of Coincidence (Inkfish). His poems have been nominated for Best Of The Net and The Pushcart Prize. Find him at timmoder.com