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626 |
Weather Words |
The garden waited to be covered, |
Poetry Now |
1980 |
gardening, winter |
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627 |
Wedding Anniversary |
A frightening day |
Sunday Clothes |
1975 |
farming, anger |
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Proved by Trial 11. |
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628 |
The Weed Cutter |
Earth soaked by a thunderstorm |
Poet and Critic |
1982 |
adolescence, farming |
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629 |
Weed Solitude |
Machines worn out, embalmed in rust, |
Kansas City Magazine |
1960 |
machines, decay |
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Limited View 8, Landmark and Other Poems 44. |
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630 |
Weeds of Anger |
A man who plowed America's future |
Poem |
1969 |
farming, defiance |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 47. |
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631 |
The Well |
By accident one day I found a well, |
Iowa English Yearbook |
1961 |
water, restoration |
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Limited View 40. |
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632 |
Weltschmerz |
Saturday, late November sunshine |
Iowa State Liquor Store |
1971 |
Depression, November |
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633 |
What Matters |
It rose high enough |
North American Review |
1984 |
order, farming |
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A Country Man 31. |
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634 |
What Shall We Do? |
It is really a small matter, |
South Dakota Review |
1966 |
nonconformist, nature |
North American Review (1974) 25. |
A Single Focus 36, Landmark and Other Poems 17. |
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635 |
What They Said |
Wait, they said, this is not the time. |
A Country Man |
1993 |
decisions, time |
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A Country Man 13. |
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636 |
What Time Is It Anyway? |
You can't win 'em all, |
Focus |
1984 |
work, alienation |
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637 |
What Was That? |
Never was so much hubbub in the morning, |
Man and His Field |
1951 |
work, farming |
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Man and His Field 41. |
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638 |
What Wind |
crept in to slam the door |
Prairie Schooner |
1970 |
anger, relationships |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 14, Snake in the Strawberries 69. |
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639 |
Whatever Happened |
When I was young I discovered |
Great Lakes Review |
1977 |
reading, conformity |
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Snake in the Strawberries 82, The Good Earth 68. |
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640 |
What's Time to a Hog? |
Today a man asked me |
Nebraska Review |
1982 |
time, mortality |
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641 |
Wheelchair Blues |
Two raised steps deny him |
North American Review |
1979 |
disability, memory |
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642 |
When a Neighbor Dies |
Safe from loneliness, safe from storm, |
American Prefaces |
1936 |
death, nature |
Cedar Falls (Iowa) Record 26 June (1937) 37, Midland Schools 77 (Mar. 1963) 13. |
Country Men (1937) xv, (1938) 34, (1943) 42, Man and His Field 29, Landmark and Other Poems 15. |
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643 |
Where Did They Go? |
Where did they go, the maple grove, |
A Country Man |
1993 |
time, memory |
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A Country Man 46. |
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644 |
Where We Live |
We stole time to walk together |
A Country Man |
1993 |
nature, relationships |
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A Country Man 57. |
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645 |
While Meadowlarks Sang |
It began with the first eggs |
A Country Man |
1993 |
lessons, work |
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A Country Man 30. |
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646 |
Who Cares for History? |
They tore down the old Saylor house, |
A Country Man |
1993 |
memory, loss |
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A Country Man 15. |
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647 |
Who? Who? |
Do you ever stop to wonder— |
Great Lakes Review |
1977 |
identity, reflection |
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Snake in the Strawberries 80. |
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648 |
Wilderness Token |
Wild grapes tied their vines |
New Mexico Quarterly |
1964 |
nature, appreciation |
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A Single Focus 16. |
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649 |
Wilderness Ways |
The rabbit knows why the hawk is there |
Commonweal |
1965 |
wilderness, animals |
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A Single Focus 20, Snake in the Strawberries 42. |
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650 |
The Will to Possess |
Shoemaker had some Bokhara seed to sell, |
Chowder Review |
1977 |
farming, greed |
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Snake in the Strawberries 87. |
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