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 Impatience
• Animal Tracks
• Conservative
• Good Friday
• Choosing
• 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