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526 |
Vacation Cottage |
Dandelion clumps flourish |
Poet Lore |
1971 |
order, repression |
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527 |
Pride in Love |
The neighbors laugh up their sleeve |
Poet Lore |
1971 |
flowers, love |
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528 |
Reflection in a Dimestore Window |
It’s not that men are never |
Poet Lore |
1971 |
appearance, judgement |
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529 |
Survival [1] |
Lightning hit the poplar tree |
Poetry Scope |
1981 |
trees, perseverance |
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530 |
The Fact Is... |
A duck at a worm |
Poetry View |
1979 |
nature, death |
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531 |
Melancholy at Night |
Each evening at bedtime |
Poetry View |
1980 |
death, loss |
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532 |
Retirement Blues |
Neither anger nor reproach will |
Poetry View |
1979 |
aging, life |
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533 |
One Way For An Answer |
No way, just no way, |
Proved by Trial |
1977 |
mountains, revelation |
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Proved by Trial 21, Landmark and Other Poems 28. |
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534 |
Susanna and the Elders |
Let us put thought aside |
Proved by Trial |
1977 |
innocence, secrecy |
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Proved by Trial 21, Snake in the Strawberries 83. |
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535 |
I Set My Chair |
I set my chair on the driveway |
Proved by Trial |
1977 |
meditation, interruptions |
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Proved by Trial 25, Snake in the Strawberries 88. |
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536 |
Winter Field |
Whether or not the man who turned |
Purple Pen |
1937 |
death, winter |
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Country Men (1937) xviii, (1938) 39, (1943) 46, Man and His Field 68, Snake in the Strawberries 15. |
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537 |
Line Between Seasons |
The rollicking whinny of the wind |
Quartet |
1966 |
nature, winter |
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A Single Focus 25, Snake in the Strawberries 41. |
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538 |
After Years Apart |
The town moved on its streets |
Quartet |
1968 |
community, alienation |
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539 |
Yes, It Would |
Wouldn't it be a gas some morning |
Quartet |
1974 |
responsibility, animals |
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Landmark and Other Poems 9. |
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540 |
We All Bear the Mark |
The mark of Cain is hard to spot |
Rendezvous |
1967 |
sin, judgement |
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541 |
Revival |
The anxious hours numb me |
Reporter |
1967 |
fall, mortality |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 56, Snake in the Strawberries 76. |
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542 |
The Cure |
The bush at the corner of the house |
Sandlapper |
1977 |
homesickness, flowers |
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543 |
Sap's Rise |
The creek retreats from flood rage |
see "The Face of Things" |
1970 |
spring, renewal |
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Landmark and Other Poems 27. |
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544 |
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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545 |
Short Cut |
A short cut, so we said, a different road, |
Shaken by Leaf-Fall |
1976 |
roaming, countryside |
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546 |
Homecoming |
So let's knock off for the day, I said, |
Shaken by Leaf-Fall |
1976 |
farming, home |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 39. |
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547 |
That Kind of a Day |
A kitten plays with a mouse, |
Shaken by Leaf-Fall |
1976 |
nature, loss |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 24, Landmark and Other Poems 30. |
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548 |
Landscape—Iowa |
No one who lives here |
Shaken by Leaf-Fall |
1976 |
land, people |
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Snake in the Strawberries 67, The Good Earth 63., Selected Poems 10 |
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549 |
The Flower |
The afternoon bent over |
Shaken by Leaf-Fall |
1976 |
love, flowers |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 15. |
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550 |
Abrasive Time |
Just think how alert we would all need to be |
Shaken by Leaf-Fall |
1976 |
aging, time |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 67. |
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