Wyndmere is a town in North Dakota where Carol Muske's mother was born, and where she visited as a child. Muske's grandparents are buried there, and it is where her mother met and married her father. Now almost a ghost town, Wyndmere is the source of imagery in many of these poems, as well as the idea of <i>Wynd-mere</i>, wind-mother, both inspiration and principle of separation.