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76 |
The Red Flower |
The day sagged under heavy wind |
Limited View |
1962 |
love, renewal |
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Limited View 26. |
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77 |
Housebroken |
The year has turned, |
Wascana Review |
1980 |
nature, winter |
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78 |
The Shelled Pea News |
To shell peas on a hot |
Commonweal |
1983 |
work, amazement |
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79 |
Spring Rites |
We celebrate the rites of spring |
New York Times |
1971 |
planting, ritual |
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Shaken by Leaf-Fall 49. |
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80 |
Poverty |
The field of clover sowed last fall |
Kansas Quarterly |
1971 |
weather, farming |
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81 |
Love Song |
Deep in the woods I wake |
Voyages to the Inland Sea, II |
1972 |
nature, love |
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82 |
Seventy Times Seven |
Let the rain discover |
Country Men |
1937 |
forgiveness, loneliness |
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83 |
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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84 |
What Matters |
It rose high enough |
North American Review |
1984 |
order, farming |
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A Country Man 31. |
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85 |
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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86 |
Intruder |
The morning flowered in |
A Single Focus |
1967 |
morning, sadness |
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A Single Focus 65, Landmark and Other Poems 25. |
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87 |
Truant |
Little rowdy yellow duck, darting from your mother, |
Music for Seven Poems |
1958 |
birds, adventure |
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88 |
Shove It, Brother, Shove It |
From bedroom to bathroom to |
North American Review |
1979 |
optimism, disability |
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89 |
Arrogance of Things |
The growth of the cornfield today |
Snake in the Strawberries |
1979 |
death, materiality |
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Snake in the Strawberries 8. |
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90 |
The Supermarket's Secret Machine |
Today my wife sent me to the |
The Complete Poetry of James Hearst |
2001 |
shopping, uncertainty |
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91 |
Book of the Mind |
Chilled and seared by the weather |
Planting Red Geraniums: Discovered Poems of James Hearst |
2017 |
introspection, thoughts |
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Planting Red Geraniums 22 |
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92 |
Farmer to His Son |
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93 |
Memorial Day 1982 |
Henry Jensen sits in the sun |
A Country Man |
1993 |
war, death |
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A Country Man 32. |
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94 |
Autumn Love |
When you stood smiling under a roof of leaves |
Ladies Home Journal |
1959 |
love, fall |
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Limited View 27, Landmark and Other Poems 22. |
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95 |
Bluejay |
Into the calm of morning as stone breaks |
Poetry Now |
1976 |
birds, hunting |
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Proved by Trial 15. |
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96 |
Still Heard but Faintly |
What chime struck from the iron air |
Periodical of Art in Nebraska |
1976 |
winter, faith |
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97 |
The Way the Light Shines |
The shrill singing of cicada |
Poetry Now |
1980 |
aging, friendship |
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98 |
The Other Land |
The strength and persuasion of the long slow turning |
The Sun at Noon |
1943 |
seasons, divinity |
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The Sun at Noon 22. |
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99 |
To Run or Sit |
Today, he said, the sky bends down |
The Back Door |
1970 |
frustration, waiting |
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100 |
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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