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176 |
Utopia |
When early dark and chilly rains |
Hawk and Whippoorwill |
1963 |
farming, animals |
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177 |
Discovery |
The wind swept the yard, wrinkled the pond, |
Catholic Rural life |
1963 |
nature, weather |
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178 |
Home |
The house sags like it’s grieving, paint |
Hawk and Whippoorwill |
1963 |
misfortune, rootedness |
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179 |
The Wasted Corner |
She was a higglety, pigglety hen |
Wormwood Review |
1963 |
farming, animals |
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A Single Focus 27, Landmark and Other Poems 14. |
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180 |
Buried Seeds |
The buried seeds drink up the snow |
New York Herald Tribune |
1964 |
nature, spring |
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A Single Focus 43. |
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181 |
Reprieve |
I too have gone |
Onward |
1964 |
misfortune, love |
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182 |
Love's Apostate |
I shoulder my bag, slink through |
New York Herald Tribune |
1964 |
forgiveness, resentment |
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A Single Focus 54. |
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183 |
Tasters |
The summer sun made blood like sap |
Midwest Quarterly |
1964 |
summer, desire |
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A Single Focus 45, Snake in the Strawberries 39. |
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184 |
The Balance |
I bathed in the tender welter |
New Frontiers |
1964 |
seasons, nature |
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A Single Focus 46. |
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185 |
The Captain Ashore |
I know a man whose twisted wife |
New York Herald Tribune |
1964 |
greed, respect |
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186 |
The Return Flight |
Evening spread fingers of shadow |
New York Herald Tribune |
1964 |
birds, fall |
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A Single Focus 72. |
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187 |
Unearned Gift |
Shut the door |
America |
1964 |
love, joy |
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A Single Focus 61, Landmark and Other Poems 17. |
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188 |
Ownership |
Old neighbors of my people |
Discourse: A Review of Liberal Arts |
1964 |
farming, mortality |
Harper's Bazaar (December 1968) 180. |
A Single Focus 73, Landmark and Other Poems 43. |
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189 |
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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190 |
Claim of Two Countries |
My native land finds its map |
New Frontiers |
1964 |
nature, farming |
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A Single Focus 52, Landmark and Other Poems 18. |
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191 |
For God's Sake |
Why don't you clean up your place, |
Penny Poems From Midwestern University |
1965 |
garden, decay |
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Proved by Trial 19, Landmark and Other Poems 21. |
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192 |
The Farmer's Season |
Yeah, spring, I know spring, the vernal season, |
America |
1965 |
spring, farming |
"Book Review," Wallace's Farmer (28 Oct. 1967) 3, North American Review (1974) 34, Out of this World: Poems from the Hawkeye State. (1975) 5. |
A Single Focus 3, Landmark and Other's Poems 56. |
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193 |
Plea for Single Focus |
You saw double today when you said you saw the wind |
Colorado Quarterly |
1965 |
nature, farming |
Interpreting Literature. 4th ed. K.L. Knickerbocker and H.W. Reninger, eds. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. 1969. 364, North American Review (1974) 21. |
A Single Focus 53, Snake in the Strawberries 40. |
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194 |
Close the Accounts |
The putting away time shows up |
Commonweal |
1965 |
farming, fall |
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A Single Focus 19, Snake in the Strawberries 44, Landmark and Other Poems 37. |
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195 |
A Place to Sit |
Come in, come in, Neighbor, please come in |
New Frontiers |
1965 |
hardship, resentment |
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A Single Focus 31, Landmark and Other Poems 12. |
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196 |
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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197 |
Cold Snap |
The winter night in your face |
Kansas City Magazine |
1965 |
winter, music |
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A Single Focus 56. |
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198 |
Apple Harvest |
The wind knocks on my door |
Bitterroot |
1965 |
fall, mortality |
North American Review (1974) 35. |
A Single Focus 68, Snake in the Strawberries 37. |
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199 |
Undertow |
The bay of morning shines through |
Seven |
1965 |
writing, distraction |
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A Single Focus 58, Snake in the Strawberries 43. |
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200 |
Hen Pheasant |
Dusk fills the grove and seeps |
Poetry |
1965 |
farming, birds |
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A Single Focus 23. |
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