One of the things that people find troubling about poetry is its lack of real boundaries. As Mary Oliver says when discussing the syntax of poetry, “in the writing of a poem nothing is wrong.” She suggests that allowing variety to direct the formation of poems is more important than having a habitual way of writing. This series of four poems, titled Another Turn of Time, and presented at the National Undergraduate Literature Conference at Weber State University this spring, takes a creative approach to examine how changes occur in various aspects of life through time. Each poem has a common theme of someone overcoming a state of inadequacy or beginning a new phase in life. The subjects of a failing marriage, a child’s reaction to dysfunctional parents, an angry boyfriend’s hostility challenged and subdued, and the first stages of the fall season each suggest a revolution of sorts in their corresponding poems. The transformation of self and a renewed awareness of the beautiful mystery of life is portrayed in this series through multi-faceted depictions of the power of time. Diane Raptosh was our group’s faculty advisor and the trip was funded by the Student Research Grant.