Norbert Krapf Morning Glories First thing summer mornings I would come out to the porch, tiptoe down the steps, pad barefoot across the grass stand behind the trellis and look up to see how many of her morning glories had opened. They were so blue and pure, beaded with dew as if miniature gateways to the skies had swayed open allowing me to ramble into infinity. Norbert Krapf's most recent poetry collections are Somewhere in Southern Indiana , Blue-Eyed Grass: Poems of Germany, and Bittersweet Along the Expressway: Poems of Long Island . A translator of the early poetry of Rainier Maria Rilke and of legends from his ancestral Franconia (northern Bavaria), he has edited a collection of writings by contemporary poets about William Cullen Bryant and a collection of pioneer German journals and letters from southern Indiana. He directs the C. W. Post Poetry Center of Long Island University.