Introduction / Pamela Mittlefehldt -- House made of words / James Cihlar -- Home stretch / Karen Lynn Erickson -- A home worth remembering / Kathleen Weihe -- Corn rows / Morgan Grayce Willow -- Thoughts upon returning home to an English spring / Elizabeth Weir -- Stradivarius in the locker / Keith Gunderson -- Keep out / Julia Morris Paul -- Drawing of my family: age six / Jill Breckenridge -- Child with reader / Elisabeth Murawski -- In the basement / Molly Sutton Kiefer -- Prairie world and wanderer / Margaret Hasse -- Prairie sundown, North Dakota / John Sorensen -- Hometown / Robin Chapman -- Safe / Catherine Abby Hodges -- Shelling peas / Penny Harter -- Horizon / Cary Waterman -- Going home / Rosemary Winslow -- Leaving / Emily Ruth Hazel -- Relearning home / Heather McGrew -- Coming home / Janet Jerve -- Brat / Carol Dunbar -- Postcard to Ailene from a place in the air / Suzanne Allen -- Ghosts of abandoned capacity / David Pichaske -- Origins / Andrea Potos -- A distant ship tiding home / Bruce Pratt -- Displaced person / John Manesis -- Portrait without words / Tami Mohamed Brown -- Three line bio / Katie Hae Leo -- A hundred things / Emily K. Bright -- Provenance / Nadine Pinede -- Family tree / Linda Nemec Foster -- Lands of song / Joseph Bruchac -- Looking back / Sarah Brown Weitzman -- What holds me / Laura L. Hansen -- Portable singer / Penny Perry -- Fixing potato salad while the past comes and goes / Sharon Chmielarz -- Hot corner / John Azrak -- Homesick / Drew Lamm -- 720 miles from home / Ellen Shriner -- Avid heirs of the farm / Alice Owen Duggan -- Paradise lost / Jan Chronister -- Former tenants / Dan Campion -- Porch lights / J. Patrick Lewis -- Back in your old house in Montana / Judith Waller Carroll -- Meaning of things / Claudia M. Reder -- Heart of the matter / Karen Herseth Wee -- Pecans / Connie Wanek -- Land Judith Prest -- Dear God of H____ / Ethna McKiernan -- Chicken Charlie / Fran Markover -- Expired stars / Laura Jean -- A shelter is not a home / Linda Kanter -- A teacher mourns disappearance / Julie Landsman -- Horror of the world around / Freya Manfred -- Passing through? Squatting is another name for home / Jessica Erica Hahn -- Cul de sac on Tallman Circle / Roberta J. Hill -- Foreshocks / M.J. Fievre -- In poetry class at the jail: Derek talks about the moon / Deborah Gordon Cooper -- Tattooed / Amy Jo Swing -- Between / Mary Kay Rummel -- Directions home / Kristina Roth -- Blacklock / Vicki Graham -- Day 212 (when I am home) / Amy Nash -- Toward Moorhead, Minnesota / Thom Tammaro -- We live in Texas / Greg Tuleja -- Patterns of home / Sherry Rovig -- Settled / Marjorie Maddox -- Buying the farm, part B / Karen Donley-Hayes -- Persistence of ashes / Kenneth Salzmann -- Arriving home / Arriving home -- 75 1/2 Bedford Street, The Edna St. Vincent Millay House / Ann McGovern -- Two timing / Sheila Packa -- Any evening in early December / Marge Piercy -- Nesting / Gary Boelhower -- Looking out my bedroom window / Jane Yolen -- A gay doll house / Kenneth Pobo -- Now it's a house / Lowell Jaeger -- My place / Joseph A. Soldati -- Permeable world / Rachel Barenblat -- Five summer nights / Susan Elbe -- Mending the net / Martin Willitts, Jr. -- Patriotism / Ellie Schoenfeld -- Always home / J. P.White -- Home / Gloria Frym -- Seeking sanctuary / Wendy Brown-Báez -- Be-long-ing / Farzana Marie -- Rituals of December / Joyce Lombard -- In common / Naomi Shihab Nye -- Fault lines / Cynthia M. Baer -- Along Highway 1 / Keiko Lane -- Threshold: four steps toward home / George Roberts -- Home is a complete sentence / Miriam Weinstein -- Neutralities / M. J. Iuppa -- Where in the world did you come from? / Mark Vinz -- House of dreams and stars and life / Charlene Langfur.