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Sarah Fairchild
Online Readings
Sarah's Ames Reading Series ( (1) April 19, 2001
Sarah's Ames Reading Series (2) January 16, 2011
Unicorn Poems
My America
Commencement
Crows
Sonnet
Day Dawned Special
I Am A Poet
Winter Delight
Breakfast-in-Bed Poem
Poems written under the Influence of unaccustomed wine
Rom. 12: II
Winded
Bitter Love
Fragile Flickering
In Her Pain
. . . But I Know
Silhouette
Lost
Repelled Love
Escape
From the Train
If Love
Overtly Religious
COMPLIN
Instructions for Walking in Fog
Moses
see also Death Poems
Salt Valley Seasons
Preface
Frontispiece: Keeping the Door Ajar: Two Poems for Emily
Spring
Nesting
I Am A Poet
Breakfast-in-Bed-Poem
Gifts for a Despondent Poet
Netsuke
Sun of Justice
Summer
In July
The Dare
The Old Songs
Ellen
Shopping Song: To Celia
Excaliber, A Sestina
Fall
Crows
Red Ink
Repelled Love
To S. . . . As The Madness Spreads
The Quest
Windsong
Winter
At The Bank
Bitter Love
After The Storm
Incantation Against Cold
Moses
To the Prince of Peace
Poeticness
Miss 8
Poetry Poster, Student Union
The Children Know
Ghazal
December Morning Commute
From the Courthouse Window
In the Dentist's Waiting Room
In Search of Wild Raspberries
Fishing
most common
Verbose
Home Literacy Survey
Rock Paper, Scissors
Winter Delight
Barkley's Song
Romance
Invitation
Nesting
Folding
In Common Time
On Your 41st Birthday
A Reply to Those Who Say I Have Grown Old
Why I Don't Go to Work Like "Normal" Mommies
Forecast
(link) Tip The World Over
Vision
Of Hope
Under The Willow Tree
Spring
Expectations
Raspberry mind
Waiting in the Car by Westlake Hardware
Secret
After the Office Party
Meditative
January Haiku
Carnival
The day Elvis died
Not lost, for once
For Now
Observing Notes 7/20/93
A Good Day In December
Crises
The Girl with Many Names
Blackbird Song
Red Ink
At the Bank
Shopping at the All Night Grocery
Cycle
The Two-Headed Woman: For Two Simultaneous Voices
Leave A Message
The Storm
Weathering the Storm
In the Emergency Room with Maggie
Chaos
Birth Poems
Abraham Samuel
Terésa Emily
Death Poems
Tip The World Over
The Empty Box
What MaryJo Said
A Holocaust of Grackles
Childishly Unreasoning
Betrayal
Before You Wake
For Gabriel
Lamentations
Wars and Rumors of War
Ekphrastic Poetry
Such Deadly Wolves Around The Town Tonight
Sarah's Ames Reading (2) January 16, 2011
Pending Placerment
No Words
Three Haiku
Early November
Barking Dog
Blowout Penstemon
MORE TO COME
Barbara (Packard) Sieler
On My Homework
On a Hayrack
Mark Fairchild's Poetry
My Literary Bio
Essays
Note on the Presentation of Poetry
Modern Poetic Evolution
The Significance of Context
The Significance of Context II
Published
Communion
Submitted But Not Yet Accepted
Black Star Press
Nebraska Poets Calendar
CLPP Renga
CLPP Renga & Its History
CLPP Renga "Rules"
Sample Renga
2011
2011-09-25-Autumn-renga-SEQ
2011-09-25-Autumn-renku
2012
2012-01-12 Winter
2012-04-22 Spring
2012-07-15-Summer
2012-09-19 Autumn
2013
2013-01-13 Winter
2013-04-28 Spring
2013-08-04 Summer
2013-10-27 Autumn
2014
2014-02-08 Candlemas
2014-05-31-Spring
2014-08-02 Summer
2014-11-11 Autumn
Miscellaneous
Sarah's 60th Birthday Renga
towards a History of Poetry in Nebraska
at The Lion
What is "at The Lion"?
Poetry & Art Links
Thoughts on Poetry & ArtThoughts on Poetry & Art
[link] to at The Lion website)
[link] Information for Featured Readers
Other Writings
Short Stories
A Web Too High
Pass the Word
The Judge
The Astronomer Fish
Jimmy Zahng’s Spirit & Wrynd store
The Road To Prosher
Introduction (original)
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Appendices
TRTP Sketches
The Neevenite Manifestos
Commentary
Manifesto 1 – 1863: Civil War - Brotherhood of Hole Diggers
Manifesto 2 – 1918: WWI: The Ancient and Honorable Brotherhood of the Socie
Manifesto 3 – 1953: WWII: Society of Gratuitous Hole Diggers
Manifesto 4 – 1968: Gratuitous Hole Digger's Society
Manifesto 5 – 2028: Gratuitous Hole Digger's Society
Manifesto 6 – 2050: Civilization Investment Venture Corporation (“Sievers”)
Manifesto 7 – 2186: The Neevenites
Scripts
Heracles
The Rogue Saint
Essays
Why Art; Or Why I Ask To Share Art I Cannot Pay For
Stars, Calendars, And Poetry
The Art Gallery
Graphic Art
Is Poetry Spoken Word or Written Word?
The Science Cycle
Of The Yellow Brick Road
On Education
People of the WIS
to Chloe & Elle: On Art
What Art Is
Astronomy
Astronomy Resources in Nebraska (ARiN)
Observatories
Boswell Observatory
CUO
Current Events
Annual Events
Clubs
History & Culture
Courses & Degrees
Planetariums
Unconsolidated notes
For History and Background on ARiN see my Autobiography (here)
Astronomy Essays
[link] Astronomy in My Life
Stars, Calendars, And Poetry
Art
Oneiric Art
MORE TO COME
Me & Mine
Autobiography
Prologue
My Family
Aurora & PTSD - 1965 - 1970
Exiled to Lincoln - 1970 - 1975
Education & Monasticism - (1970 - 1975)
Sarah & Marriage- 1975 - 1986 (Poetry)
Data Processing - 1977 - 1994
Astronomy - 1965 - 2024 (Science)
Sarah's Death & Aftermath - 2017 - 2024
The End of All That - 1999 - 2024
Today
Appendices
Larry's Vietnam Narrative
KVS
Kathleen Ann Zorko
Sarah Louise (Sieler) Fairchild
KAZ + MDF FB correspondence excerpt
Letter to a priest about Kathy
Värnsgarth
Photo Appendices
PPP
Notes
Note 1
Note 2
Note 3
Occasional Diary Entries
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09/15/25, 09:15:33 AM
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Thursday, May 21, 2026, 08:23:46 AM
Saturday, June 20, 2026
MORE TO COME
Last Things (1)
Spirituality
Statement Concerning My Spirituality
Monasticism
Thoughts
The Diamond
Ecumenism, As I Understand It
The Cygnet
The Male/Female Dichotomy
We Are Not Sheep
Finding God
Metaphor And Its Role
Notes on Reality
The Nature of the Metaphysical
What St. Mark's on the Campus' Mission ought to be (IMHO)
The Bishop vs the Drag Queen
Talking with God
Saying Grace
The Point of Christianity
Why I believe in Santa Claus
How to understand the Bible
The voice of one crying in the wilderness
The Rosary as the Fifth Gospel
My Current Status
MORE TO COME
The Campfire Of My Soul
My Roads Taken
Home
Most Recent Updates
Mark Fairchild Coat of Arms (Arlaen)
Poetry
Sarah Fairchild
Online Readings
Sarah's Ames Reading Series ( (1) April 19, 2001
Sarah's Ames Reading Series (2) January 16, 2011
Unicorn Poems
My America
Commencement
Crows
Sonnet
Day Dawned Special
I Am A Poet
Winter Delight
Breakfast-in-Bed Poem
Poems written under the Influence of unaccustomed wine
Rom. 12: II
Winded
Bitter Love
Fragile Flickering
In Her Pain
. . . But I Know
Silhouette
Lost
Repelled Love
Escape
From the Train
If Love
Overtly Religious
COMPLIN
Instructions for Walking in Fog
Moses
see also Death Poems
Salt Valley Seasons
Preface
Frontispiece: Keeping the Door Ajar: Two Poems for Emily
Spring
Nesting
I Am A Poet
Breakfast-in-Bed-Poem
Gifts for a Despondent Poet
Netsuke
Sun of Justice
Summer
In July
The Dare
The Old Songs
Ellen
Shopping Song: To Celia
Excaliber, A Sestina
Fall
Crows
Red Ink
Repelled Love
To S. . . . As The Madness Spreads
The Quest
Windsong
Winter
At The Bank
Bitter Love
After The Storm
Incantation Against Cold
Moses
To the Prince of Peace
Poeticness
Miss 8
Poetry Poster, Student Union
The Children Know
Ghazal
December Morning Commute
From the Courthouse Window
In the Dentist's Waiting Room
In Search of Wild Raspberries
Fishing
most common
Verbose
Home Literacy Survey
Rock Paper, Scissors
Winter Delight
Barkley's Song
Romance
Invitation
Nesting
Folding
In Common Time
On Your 41st Birthday
A Reply to Those Who Say I Have Grown Old
Why I Don't Go to Work Like "Normal" Mommies
Forecast
(link) Tip The World Over
Vision
Of Hope
Under The Willow Tree
Spring
Expectations
Raspberry mind
Waiting in the Car by Westlake Hardware
Secret
After the Office Party
Meditative
January Haiku
Carnival
The day Elvis died
Not lost, for once
For Now
Observing Notes 7/20/93
A Good Day In December
Crises
The Girl with Many Names
Blackbird Song
Red Ink
At the Bank
Shopping at the All Night Grocery
Cycle
The Two-Headed Woman: For Two Simultaneous Voices
Leave A Message
The Storm
Weathering the Storm
In the Emergency Room with Maggie
Chaos
Birth Poems
Abraham Samuel
Terésa Emily
Death Poems
Tip The World Over
The Empty Box
What MaryJo Said
A Holocaust of Grackles
Childishly Unreasoning
Betrayal
Before You Wake
For Gabriel
Lamentations
Wars and Rumors of War
Ekphrastic Poetry
Such Deadly Wolves Around The Town Tonight
Sarah's Ames Reading (2) January 16, 2011
Pending Placerment
No Words
Three Haiku
Early November
Barking Dog
Blowout Penstemon
MORE TO COME
Barbara (Packard) Sieler
On My Homework
On a Hayrack
Mark Fairchild's Poetry
My Literary Bio
Essays
Note on the Presentation of Poetry
Modern Poetic Evolution
The Significance of Context
The Significance of Context II
Published
Communion
Submitted But Not Yet Accepted
Black Star Press
Nebraska Poets Calendar
CLPP Renga
CLPP Renga & Its History
CLPP Renga "Rules"
Sample Renga
2011
2011-09-25-Autumn-renga-SEQ
2011-09-25-Autumn-renku
2012
2012-01-12 Winter
2012-04-22 Spring
2012-07-15-Summer
2012-09-19 Autumn
2013
2013-01-13 Winter
2013-04-28 Spring
2013-08-04 Summer
2013-10-27 Autumn
2014
2014-02-08 Candlemas
2014-05-31-Spring
2014-08-02 Summer
2014-11-11 Autumn
Miscellaneous
Sarah's 60th Birthday Renga
towards a History of Poetry in Nebraska
at The Lion
What is "at The Lion"?
Poetry & Art Links
Thoughts on Poetry & ArtThoughts on Poetry & Art
[link] to at The Lion website)
[link] Information for Featured Readers
Other Writings
Short Stories
A Web Too High
Pass the Word
The Judge
The Astronomer Fish
Jimmy Zahng’s Spirit & Wrynd store
The Road To Prosher
Introduction (original)
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Appendices
TRTP Sketches
The Neevenite Manifestos
Commentary
Manifesto 1 – 1863: Civil War - Brotherhood of Hole Diggers
Manifesto 2 – 1918: WWI: The Ancient and Honorable Brotherhood of the Socie
Manifesto 3 – 1953: WWII: Society of Gratuitous Hole Diggers
Manifesto 4 – 1968: Gratuitous Hole Digger's Society
Manifesto 5 – 2028: Gratuitous Hole Digger's Society
Manifesto 6 – 2050: Civilization Investment Venture Corporation (“Sievers”)
Manifesto 7 – 2186: The Neevenites
Scripts
Heracles
The Rogue Saint
Essays
Why Art; Or Why I Ask To Share Art I Cannot Pay For
Stars, Calendars, And Poetry
The Art Gallery
Graphic Art
Is Poetry Spoken Word or Written Word?
The Science Cycle
Of The Yellow Brick Road
On Education
People of the WIS
to Chloe & Elle: On Art
What Art Is
Astronomy
Astronomy Resources in Nebraska (ARiN)
Observatories
Boswell Observatory
CUO
Current Events
Annual Events
Clubs
History & Culture
Courses & Degrees
Planetariums
Unconsolidated notes
For History and Background on ARiN see my Autobiography (here)
Astronomy Essays
[link] Astronomy in My Life
Stars, Calendars, And Poetry
Art
Oneiric Art
MORE TO COME
Me & Mine
Autobiography
Prologue
My Family
Aurora & PTSD - 1965 - 1970
Exiled to Lincoln - 1970 - 1975
Education & Monasticism - (1970 - 1975)
Sarah & Marriage- 1975 - 1986 (Poetry)
Data Processing - 1977 - 1994
Astronomy - 1965 - 2024 (Science)
Sarah's Death & Aftermath - 2017 - 2024
The End of All That - 1999 - 2024
Today
Appendices
Larry's Vietnam Narrative
KVS
Kathleen Ann Zorko
Sarah Louise (Sieler) Fairchild
KAZ + MDF FB correspondence excerpt
Letter to a priest about Kathy
Värnsgarth
Photo Appendices
PPP
Notes
Note 1
Note 2
Note 3
Occasional Diary Entries
2025
2025-04-08, Tuesday, 07:59:32 AM
07/27/25 Sunday 08:12:25 AM
2025-08-09 Sat
2025-08-11 Mon
2025-08-21, Thursday 09:23:00 AM
2024-08-28-001
09/15/25, 09:15:33 AM
2025-10-12-001 Neihardt
2026
Thursday, May 21, 2026, 08:23:46 AM
Saturday, June 20, 2026
MORE TO COME
Last Things (1)
Spirituality
Statement Concerning My Spirituality
Monasticism
Thoughts
The Diamond
Ecumenism, As I Understand It
The Cygnet
The Male/Female Dichotomy
We Are Not Sheep
Finding God
Metaphor And Its Role
Notes on Reality
The Nature of the Metaphysical
What St. Mark's on the Campus' Mission ought to be (IMHO)
The Bishop vs the Drag Queen
Talking with God
Saying Grace
The Point of Christianity
Why I believe in Santa Claus
How to understand the Bible
The voice of one crying in the wilderness
The Rosary as the Fifth Gospel
My Current Status
MORE TO COME
The Campfire Of My Soul
More
Home
Most Recent Updates
Mark Fairchild Coat of Arms (Arlaen)
Poetry
Sarah Fairchild
Online Readings
Sarah's Ames Reading Series ( (1) April 19, 2001
Sarah's Ames Reading Series (2) January 16, 2011
Unicorn Poems
My America
Commencement
Crows
Sonnet
Day Dawned Special
I Am A Poet
Winter Delight
Breakfast-in-Bed Poem
Poems written under the Influence of unaccustomed wine
Rom. 12: II
Winded
Bitter Love
Fragile Flickering
In Her Pain
. . . But I Know
Silhouette
Lost
Repelled Love
Escape
From the Train
If Love
Overtly Religious
COMPLIN
Instructions for Walking in Fog
Moses
see also Death Poems
Salt Valley Seasons
Preface
Frontispiece: Keeping the Door Ajar: Two Poems for Emily
Spring
Nesting
I Am A Poet
Breakfast-in-Bed-Poem
Gifts for a Despondent Poet
Netsuke
Sun of Justice
Summer
In July
The Dare
The Old Songs
Ellen
Shopping Song: To Celia
Excaliber, A Sestina
Fall
Crows
Red Ink
Repelled Love
To S. . . . As The Madness Spreads
The Quest
Windsong
Winter
At The Bank
Bitter Love
After The Storm
Incantation Against Cold
Moses
To the Prince of Peace
Poeticness
Miss 8
Poetry Poster, Student Union
The Children Know
Ghazal
December Morning Commute
From the Courthouse Window
In the Dentist's Waiting Room
In Search of Wild Raspberries
Fishing
most common
Verbose
Home Literacy Survey
Rock Paper, Scissors
Winter Delight
Barkley's Song
Romance
Invitation
Nesting
Folding
In Common Time
On Your 41st Birthday
A Reply to Those Who Say I Have Grown Old
Why I Don't Go to Work Like "Normal" Mommies
Forecast
(link) Tip The World Over
Vision
Of Hope
Under The Willow Tree
Spring
Expectations
Raspberry mind
Waiting in the Car by Westlake Hardware
Secret
After the Office Party
Meditative
January Haiku
Carnival
The day Elvis died
Not lost, for once
For Now
Observing Notes 7/20/93
A Good Day In December
Crises
The Girl with Many Names
Blackbird Song
Red Ink
At the Bank
Shopping at the All Night Grocery
Cycle
The Two-Headed Woman: For Two Simultaneous Voices
Leave A Message
The Storm
Weathering the Storm
In the Emergency Room with Maggie
Chaos
Birth Poems
Abraham Samuel
Terésa Emily
Death Poems
Tip The World Over
The Empty Box
What MaryJo Said
A Holocaust of Grackles
Childishly Unreasoning
Betrayal
Before You Wake
For Gabriel
Lamentations
Wars and Rumors of War
Ekphrastic Poetry
Such Deadly Wolves Around The Town Tonight
Sarah's Ames Reading (2) January 16, 2011
Pending Placerment
No Words
Three Haiku
Early November
Barking Dog
Blowout Penstemon
MORE TO COME
Barbara (Packard) Sieler
On My Homework
On a Hayrack
Mark Fairchild's Poetry
My Literary Bio
Essays
Note on the Presentation of Poetry
Modern Poetic Evolution
The Significance of Context
The Significance of Context II
Published
Communion
Submitted But Not Yet Accepted
Black Star Press
Nebraska Poets Calendar
CLPP Renga
CLPP Renga & Its History
CLPP Renga "Rules"
Sample Renga
2011
2011-09-25-Autumn-renga-SEQ
2011-09-25-Autumn-renku
2012
2012-01-12 Winter
2012-04-22 Spring
2012-07-15-Summer
2012-09-19 Autumn
2013
2013-01-13 Winter
2013-04-28 Spring
2013-08-04 Summer
2013-10-27 Autumn
2014
2014-02-08 Candlemas
2014-05-31-Spring
2014-08-02 Summer
2014-11-11 Autumn
Miscellaneous
Sarah's 60th Birthday Renga
towards a History of Poetry in Nebraska
at The Lion
What is "at The Lion"?
Poetry & Art Links
Thoughts on Poetry & ArtThoughts on Poetry & Art
[link] to at The Lion website)
[link] Information for Featured Readers
Other Writings
Short Stories
A Web Too High
Pass the Word
The Judge
The Astronomer Fish
Jimmy Zahng’s Spirit & Wrynd store
The Road To Prosher
Introduction (original)
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Appendices
TRTP Sketches
The Neevenite Manifestos
Commentary
Manifesto 1 – 1863: Civil War - Brotherhood of Hole Diggers
Manifesto 2 – 1918: WWI: The Ancient and Honorable Brotherhood of the Socie
Manifesto 3 – 1953: WWII: Society of Gratuitous Hole Diggers
Manifesto 4 – 1968: Gratuitous Hole Digger's Society
Manifesto 5 – 2028: Gratuitous Hole Digger's Society
Manifesto 6 – 2050: Civilization Investment Venture Corporation (“Sievers”)
Manifesto 7 – 2186: The Neevenites
Scripts
Heracles
The Rogue Saint
Essays
Why Art; Or Why I Ask To Share Art I Cannot Pay For
Stars, Calendars, And Poetry
The Art Gallery
Graphic Art
Is Poetry Spoken Word or Written Word?
The Science Cycle
Of The Yellow Brick Road
On Education
People of the WIS
to Chloe & Elle: On Art
What Art Is
Astronomy
Astronomy Resources in Nebraska (ARiN)
Observatories
Boswell Observatory
CUO
Current Events
Annual Events
Clubs
History & Culture
Courses & Degrees
Planetariums
Unconsolidated notes
For History and Background on ARiN see my Autobiography (here)
Astronomy Essays
[link] Astronomy in My Life
Stars, Calendars, And Poetry
Art
Oneiric Art
MORE TO COME
Me & Mine
Autobiography
Prologue
My Family
Aurora & PTSD - 1965 - 1970
Exiled to Lincoln - 1970 - 1975
Education & Monasticism - (1970 - 1975)
Sarah & Marriage- 1975 - 1986 (Poetry)
Data Processing - 1977 - 1994
Astronomy - 1965 - 2024 (Science)
Sarah's Death & Aftermath - 2017 - 2024
The End of All That - 1999 - 2024
Today
Appendices
Larry's Vietnam Narrative
KVS
Kathleen Ann Zorko
Sarah Louise (Sieler) Fairchild
KAZ + MDF FB correspondence excerpt
Letter to a priest about Kathy
Värnsgarth
Photo Appendices
PPP
Notes
Note 1
Note 2
Note 3
Occasional Diary Entries
2025
2025-04-08, Tuesday, 07:59:32 AM
07/27/25 Sunday 08:12:25 AM
2025-08-09 Sat
2025-08-11 Mon
2025-08-21, Thursday 09:23:00 AM
2024-08-28-001
09/15/25, 09:15:33 AM
2025-10-12-001 Neihardt
2026
Thursday, May 21, 2026, 08:23:46 AM
Saturday, June 20, 2026
MORE TO COME
Last Things (1)
Spirituality
Statement Concerning My Spirituality
Monasticism
Thoughts
The Diamond
Ecumenism, As I Understand It
The Cygnet
The Male/Female Dichotomy
We Are Not Sheep
Finding God
Metaphor And Its Role
Notes on Reality
The Nature of the Metaphysical
What St. Mark's on the Campus' Mission ought to be (IMHO)
The Bishop vs the Drag Queen
Talking with God
Saying Grace
The Point of Christianity
Why I believe in Santa Claus
How to understand the Bible
The voice of one crying in the wilderness
The Rosary as the Fifth Gospel
My Current Status
MORE TO COME
The Campfire Of My Soul
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Prairie Peace Park
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