Patricia Frolander gives her readers luminous moments as common as washing a gravestone near lilacs or stirring applesauce with "a spoon worn down on one side." She gives us a landscape where horses are good people and lives are measured in horse miles ridden. Frolander can compress sixty years into fifteen lines.

In "Harvest", Patricia Frolander delicately weaves the past with the present with the phrase "decorates paper with memory" and in "Dowry", concisely captures the passage of time and generation. In "Bernice", she eloquently blends baking with the story to tell of her neighbor and friend, while giving the history of Houston Creek, Wyoming. If you appreciate great poetry, Second Wind belongs in your personal poetry collection.