- After the Rain [for Michael Lynn, 2012]
- An Evening at Casa Nuestra [for Katrina, Gene, and Liam, Napa Valley, 2013]
- A Silence at the Edge of Music [in honor of Cathy Meints, 2016]
- A Suite from the Baroque [a villanelle for Chris Krueger, 2012]
- A Tilted Ground [a sestina for Carol Copeland on her 90th birthday]
- A Villanelle [for Carol Hoffmann, 2005]
- Another Eagle [written on a kayaking trip in Alaska]
- Beginning Viol Class [an Italian sonnet for Mary Anne Ballard; the class was at the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin]
- Brahms Trio
- Deer Hill [This was written in the Navajo territory on a trip with friends. Deer Hill is an outdoor adventure school for young adults.]
- Getting Serious about Music [for Chris Krueger, 2016]
- Orkney Ruins [written on leaving Orkney, 2016]
- Playing by Memory [for Marcelle and Paul Lipke; written after Early Music Week at Pinewoods, Massachusetts, 2008; as published in the Pinewoods newsletter]
- Poetry [a sonnet for Marilyn McDonald, 2011]
- Reading “The Snow Man” [“The Snow Man” is a poem by Wallace Stevens]
- Saints [about an exhibition of Renaissance art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin 2013]
- The Caldwell Collection at Night [an Italian sonnet for Cathy Meints Caldwell, 2012, published later in The Caldwell Collection of Viols]
- The Muse’s Lament [a sonnet for Florence Peacock, 2012]
- Tombeau for M. Froberger [in terza rima, for Webb Wiggins, 2011. Froberger was a Baroque harpsichordist and composer in the 17th century; I imagine Froberger dying in the chateau of Sybilla, Duchess of Montbéliard. One of Froberger’s harpsichord pieces describes the death of a lutenist by a fall downstairs. Webb Wiggins’s superb performances of Froberger can be found at Amazon]
- Watching Humpback Whales from a Beach at Low Tide [written on a kayaking trip in Alaska]
- Weaving [for Carol Copeland on her 70th birthday, 1984]
- Well Hall [a villanelle for Mary Briggs and John Krzywicki, written after Early Music Week, 2007. “Well Hall” is an English country dance. My poem was set to music by Mary Alice Amidon: here’s the score, and here’s she and I playing it]