Landmark

Landmark and Other Poems by James Hearst
JiFi Print, Fort Dodge, IA, 1979.

Contents

Landmark

Grandfather's Farm

On Relief

Now I Have Taken to the Fields

Yes, It Would

It Could Be Worse, Maybe

For a Neighbor Woman

My Father's Care

Behind the Stove

A Place to Sit

Late for the News

The Wasted Corner

The Hammer and the Rat

When A Neighbor Dies

Queer People

Free Man

Logician

What Shall We Do?

Unearned Gift

The Problem

Claim of Two Countries

Marred

Important Question

Love's Ways

A Prejudiced Witness

Hard Words

For God's Sake

Day's Routine

An Occasion

Autumn Love

The Meeting

Surprise

Wonder of Humming Birds

A Green Voice

Intruder

Morning Song

The Tarnish

The Reason for Stars

Sap's Rise

Comfort in an Old Tune

One Way for an Answer

Emerson's Page

Cold's Verdict

That Kind of Day

Words of a Season

The Storm

Until the Storm Passes

Frost

November

Inquiry

Keep the Storm Outside

First Signs

In Doubt

Fog

First Snow

Close the Accounts

Let it Come Down

Plowman

Reflection

The Questioner

The Debtor

Cross Purposes

Cleaning the Barn

Burn the Cocoons

His Daily Pack

Between Snow and Stars

Ownership

Fact

Weed Solitude

The Young Old-Timer

The Movers

Virgin Prairie

The Search

Wren in the Vervain

The Old Dog

Accident

Crow's Inpatience

Animal Tracks

Conservative

Good Friday

Choosing

The Magic Lantern

Success

Spring on the Farm

Late Spring

Spring Lament

To an Old Sow

The Waster

Spring Rain

Hog Economy

Little Bull

The Farmer's Season

Quiet Sunday

Now I Am Free

The Same in This as Other Lands

The Grail