Title First Line Original Citation
Dragon Lesson "This country needs live dragons,"

Snake in the Strawberries. Ames: Iowa State University Press. 1979. 100.

Grandfather and the Evangelist "A tent with a platform and with folding chairs,"

Snake in the Strawberries (1979) 6.

Hang On to the Grab Bar "Caught in the revolving door" Kansas Quarterly 11 (Summer 1979) 71.
Hard Way to Learn "A trickle of water from" Poetry 134.1 (April 1979) 17.
Here and There "It's true the days are longer,"

Snake in the Strawberries. Ames: Iowa State University Press. 1979. 47.

Land of Beginnings "The door you once closed lets you slip through"

Snake in the Strawberries (1979) 3.

Need For Magic "After a lonely night and an empty day"

Snake in the Strawberries (1979) 11.

No Nightingales, No Nymphs "The imperatives of spring" Poetry 134 (April 1979) 18.
No Symbols "The barn's warm breath"

Snake in the Strawberries (1979) 12.

No Word for the Wise "We can tell the year's close" Southwest Review 64 (Autumn 1979) 392.