A Single Focus

A Single Focus by James Hearst

The Prairie Press, Iowa City, Iowa, 1967

Contents 

• Forsythia
• Wren in the Vervain
• Words of a Season
• Wilderness Token
• Metamorphosis
• The Farmer's Season
• Close the Accounts
• Wilderness Ways
• False Warning
• Propped Apple Tree
• Hen Pheasant
• In Doubt
• Line Between Seasons
• Karma
• The Wasted Corner
• Common Ground
• Three Sides to a Farm
• A Place to Sit
• Time's Flail
• Before Frost
• What Shall We Do?
• The Search
• Marred
• Home Place
• Quarrel's Echo
• Trials of Ownership
• Forewarned
• Buried Seeds
• Progress
• Tasters
• The Balance
• Men Give More Than Promises
• Behind the Stove
• Little Bull
• Cold's Verdict
• Love's Survival 
• Claim of Two Countries
• Plea for Single Focus
• Love's Apostate
• Signed by Your Kiss
• Cold Snap
• Love's Ways
• Undertow
• The Change
• The Meeting
• Unearned Gift
• The Storm
• Love in Autumn
• Bowed Strength
• Intruder
• Elegy
• Conservative
• Apple Harvest
• The Hunter
• The New Calf
• November
• The Return Flight
• Ownership