A collection of poems describing the exterior world, such as: Orinocos of the Imagination I've never been to the Orinoco and have seen few photos of it, but I feel I know its sinuous lengths, winding between thick jungle walls, flashing silver in the sun, delicate waterfalls threading from cloud-shrouded cliffs, dense foliage adorned with birds of kindergarten colors and jaguars that merge into shadow, the insistent music of bird cry and monkey chatter, dugouts and caimans scoring its sleek waters, those who people its valley gliding nearly naked through twilight forests, dappled by the distant sun. I know these lush landscapes from my dreams.

Richard Greene is a poet, or has been at least since he retired from a 38-year career in international development. A lawyer by training, he fell into his development career by accident when, after law school, though planning not to practice law but interested in international affairs, he accepted an unsolicited job offer from the U.S. Agency for International Development. After a few years in Washington (or Foggy Bottom, as the location of the U.S. foreign policy establishment is known), he was assigned as legal advisor to the USAID mission in Laos and there discovered that the development business suited his interests and inclinations very well. Greene wrote poetry beginning in the 8th grade and continued through college where he studied with a Professor, Henry Rago, who later became editor of Poetry magazine, the leading U.S. poetry journal. However, he wrote few poems after law school as he became absorbed in international development, but turned back to poetry as he neared retirement.

Painting with Words, Geneva Dawn, Andean Scenes, Marblehead, To the Source, Titicaca, Eclipse, The Housatonic Near Kent, What if Eden, The Lake at Evening, Landscape in Gray, One of Those Rare Moments, Once in the Andes, There's Something About a Lake, Seeing Water, Cotapaxi, Flurries, The Icehouse, The View from Berkeley, Orinocos of the Imagination, Soundscape East River, Surrounded by the Universe, Street with Porches, Rain on a Country Road, Rain, Spider Webs, The Other Side of the Woods, Central Park, In the Park, The View from on High, The River, Geometry, By the Plain of Jezreel, Stormy Night, Riverworld, At the Beach, The Pond, Ode to an Island, In the Cloud Forest, Streetlamps, Mountain Love, Hills, The Cemetery at the Top of Town, In the Cordillera, The Place Where the World Was Born, Where Magic Dwells, Rievaulx Abbey, Our Town, Our Piece of Country, Moonlight on Snow, Pemaquid Point, Our Backyard, Fog on a July Morning, Paleontology, Fog on the Eastern Seaboard, Fête Champêtre, Calendar Art, The Lake, Dunes, Once on the Prairie, Fences, Overture, The Names of Mountains, The Valley and the Hills, Lakes I've Known, Sidereal Navigation, County Fair, Where Men Once Dwelled, A Glimpse of River, There's Something about a Bridge, I Live Down by the River, After the Rain, Clouds, The Night Is an Ocean, Clouds Gather, Balloon Fair, The Kite, Rowing at Evening, Sidereal Dissatisfaction, My First Shooting Star, Empress Moon, Just Before Dawn, December Afternoon, Floating World, Fanfare for a Setting Sun, That's Amore, Lamb-white Days, Montgolfier Returns, Floodlight, The Shores of Morning, The Dance of Morning, Homage to Omar Khayyam, Renewal, How Many Dawns?, After the Storm, Rainy Evening Near the Hudson, Rain in the City, The Bridge, Sidewalks, Forsaken City, New York of the Mind, As I Remember Jerusalem, Fog